tiabunna's photos with the keyword: blue

Tonight there was a clear sky for a great view of the full (blue) moon and Jupiter. It seems a "blue moon" is when there are two full moons in the one month. Here's a musical link.

At the back of my favourite oyster shop. Best wishes for the weekend and HFF, everyone.

Flying over the Tasman Sea to Lord Howe Island - a World Heritage listed site some 600km off the Australian east coast. We've just returned after a very enjoyable visit. Still unpacking and catching up with the world (no mobile phones or internet there).

Looking across the town of Merimbula from our motel room, it's easy to see why the tourist promotions label this "The Sapphire Coast"

At least the Easter rain enabled some pleasant reflections, such as this Renault 4CV. Explored.

From an old negative. I've at last found my negatives from Mawson (I used two camera bodies, one with slides one with B/W). So I'm going back to the start of the 1966 Spring Trip from Mawson, showing two tractors hauling caravans to the plateau. Once there, the caravans and sledges were organised into trains. The husky pups really aren't hauling anything. :) Minolta SR1 with Adox film, Auto Rokkor 55/1.8.

Reposted after reprocessing. From an old negative, taken exactly 50 years ago today (9 October 1966). View large. Here the 1966 Spring surveying trip from Mawson is just heading out across the blue ice at the edge of the Antarctic plateau. Taken from the roof of the main caravan. In the distance, several expeditioners can be seen on the ice farewelling us, also the VW following for the early stage. For the next four months, "the world" consisted of just the seven of us.

From an old 1966 slide. The major field trip away from the station was the Spring Trip, here seen at its first stop. This was to the northern Prince Charles Mountains and involved seven of us surveying previously unvisited mountains, some 300 km inland - we were away for four months. Everything was moved in caravan trains, drawn by D4 bulldozers. Only a short distance inland, the blue ice seen at the edge of the plateau gives way to compacted snow, carved by the wind into waves known as "sastrugi", as seen here.

From an old 1966 slide. Snowtrac vehicle fitted with experimental sounding equipment for measuring the ice thickness. View looking north over Mawson (below the brow of the ice, just right of the vehicle) and showing the relative steepness of the climb to the plateau.

From an old 1966 slide. This is one of the Snowtrac vehicles on the edge of the Antarctic plateau, near Mt Henderson just outside Mawson station. The surface is blue ice and how else would a skier travel except in a Porsche-powered vehicle? :) Yes, the Snowtracs did indeed have Porsche industrial engines.

From an old slide taken in 1966. While up at Rumdoodle I was taken by the wide-angle reflections of the surrounding area in the shiny hub cap of the VW "Antarctica 3".

It's Bastille Day and I'm in a very French mood, so I couldn't resist posting this shot taken several years ago.