Photos of the day are all about Bagatelle. Bagatelle is a type of billiards that was popular in 19th century which employ 9 balls and play on the table that was semicircular at one end. The game was popular because it added element of chance appealing to billiard players of little skill. These photos are part of Broome Historical Museum Visit October 2016.
Photos of the day are all about the Australian Aboriginal Flag. In my opinion, if in case Australia is not conquered by Europe, I think the country will be using the flag below as it directly represent what is Australia before European arrived in the country. These photos are part of Broome Historical Museum Visit October 2016.
Reading the notes about the flag, the meaning of the Australian Aboriginal Flag which consist of three colors are :
– Black which represents the Aboriginal people
– Red represents the earth and their spiritual belief to the land
– Yellow represents the sun, the giver of life
The flag was designed by Harold Thomas, an artist and an aboriginal himself in 1971. One catchy information that made me admired Harold Thomas about the flag he designed is his thoughts, his convictions and his disagreements that this flag to be used as replacement to the current Australian Flag. He said “Our flag is not a secondary thing. It stands on its own, not to be placed as an adjunct to any other thing. It shouldn’t be treated that way.”
Australian Government proclaimed the flag in July 1995 a “Flag of Australia” under the section 5 of the Flags Act 1953.
Photos of the day are all about Dinosaurs Footprints. One of the displays that caught my attention while exploring Broome Historical Museum were the dinosaurs footprints. We learned about dinosaurs because of fossil evidences that these creatures indeed exist about million years ago and had lived in our world. I saw two footprints fossilized in rocks which said to be found in north-west coast of Australia. Broome actually offers tours which visits sites of dinosaur prints in the nearby coast which visible during low tide. These photos are part of Broome Historical Museum Visit October 2016.
120 million year old print from a theropod was cut from rock at Crab Creek and put on the black market. The offender was arrested and the footprint subsequently donated to the Broome Historical Society.
The dinosaur footprint was kindly loaned to the Broome Historical Society by Peter Meier, who found it amongst a load of Kimberley sandstone when landscaping.
These prints are from the Megalosaurus Broomensis, a predatory dinosaur which scientist believe to have been about 9 metres long and five meters high.
Photos for the day are all about Decompression Chamber or Diving Chamber. Nitrogen or any gas in air tank pressure increases as the diver goes deeper in the water. Then, Nitrogen gas is absorbed through body tissues but not utilized like oxygen. Therefore, one of the challenges of the pearl divers to experience as they work to explore the vast and deeper underwater, was suffering from ‘bends’. “Bends” also called as Decompression Sickness or Caisson Disease where the Nitrogen gas building up or dissolve in body tissues. When this has been quickly released, the nitrogen that build up in body tissues may burst like bubbles that can cause pains and most of the time deaths.
A clear example to illustrate this bubble formation process is that of a bottle of carbonated soda. A bottle of carbonated soda is filled with gas (carbon dioxide), which cannot be seen because it is dissolved in solution under pressure. When the bottle is opened, the pressure is released and the gas leaves the solution in the form of bubbles. A diver returning to the surface is similar to opening the bottle of soda. As a diver swims to the surface, the pressure decreases. The nitrogen, which has dissolved in tissues, wants again to leave, because the body can hold only a certain amount based on that nitrogen pressure.
Source : emedicinehealth.com
The Decompression Chamber is used so that the bubbles in the body tissue which increased due to pressure under the water will be shrinkage as treatment for Decompression Sickness. Having this diving chamber in the town gave a good result as it immediately reduced the number of divers died from ‘Bends’. These photos are part of Broome Historical Museum Visit October 2016.
Photos of the day are all about Pearl Diver’s Suit and Manual Air Pump Equipment. The moment I entered Broome Historical Museum, an old and huge Diver’s Suit is displayed at the center of Pearling Display Room, the main room of the museum. The displayed Diver’s Suit is called as Standard Diving Dress or heavy diving gear which is a type of diving suit formerly used for all underwater works such as pearl diving. Beside the Diver’s Suit is the Manual Air Pump for Standard Diving Equipment which used to supply air through a connected air hose from the air pump to the diver. These photos are part of Broome Historical Museum Visit October 2016.
The name of “Prison Boab Tree” was derived as the tree reputed as rest point for police and escorted Aboriginal prisoners en-route to Derby. When we were in Derby, I learned that Aboriginals were kidnapped in West Kimberley to be divers and workers for pearling boats. They rounded-up, put in chains and marched to the coast. Some of them were captives in this Boab Prison Tree while waited for the boat. But on the contrary, before that, Boab Tree has connection with Aboriginal traditional religious belief. These photos are part of Day 9 (Tunnel Creek, Derby and Broome) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Discovery (Post#46) : Queen Victoria Head in Gibb River Road
Around two hours after we left Bell Gorge, we stopped along Gibb River Road, but I had no idea why. Then, Scotty our guide told us to look back and he mentioned about Queen Victoria Head rock which visible at the top of the road. When I looked back, I saw an interesting part of rocks that shapes like a head which significantly shows its pointed nose. Its kind of intriguing that even natures shows human head. These photos are part of Day 8 (Bell Gorge and Windjana Gorge) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
One of the main reason why Gibb River Road is closed during wet seasons or when it rains is because of Pentecost River. This river is crossing Gibb River Road or Gibb River Road is crossing Pentecost River. And when I checked the map of the river, it is the same river that partially parallels in the bush walked we did following Champagne Springs Trail. It is not surprising if El Questro Station is closed during the same season. The river named after John Pentecost – a surveyor of the river and geologist under the expedition led by Michael Durack in 1882. These photos are part of Day 6 (Gibb River Road) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Discovery (Post#44) : Thousand Year Old Boab Tree (along Champagne Springs Trail)
Our main target to reach while taking Champagne Springs Trail was Adansonia gregorii or commonly know as Boab Tree which can be found in Kimberley Region in Western Australia and eastern part of Northern Territory. The amazing thing about this kind of tree is having the broad bottle-shaped trunk where it was said that its trunk base can be really large which by the record can go over 5 meters. In my opinion, the more the base trunk is larger, the more it was fascinating. The Boab Tree we reached is said to be a thousand-year old tree which awesome as this trees tested through times and yet still alive in our time. These photos are part of Day 5 (El Questro) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Discovery (Post#43) : Cathedral Gorge (of The Bungle Bungles)
The second and last stop within “The Bungle Bungles” was Cathedral Gorge. It is usually called as the natural amphitheater of red rock with a pool. But learning how the Cathedral Gorge was made is something profound. This part of “The Bungle Bungles” said to be developed thousand of years where a whirlwind of water circulates in the area during rainy seasons. These photos are part of Day 4 (The Bungle Bungles) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Discovery (Post#42): The Domes (of The Bungle Bungles)
Trekking within “The Bungle Bungles” was an exciting one for me as I thought that I was in the middle of unique landmarks that exist in the world. The first stop we had within “The Bungle Bungles” is called “The Domes”. One of the things that I learned even we were in adventure tour was the understanding what’s in with the domes. While we were resting along the trail, our guide Scotty instructed us to look at the domes that surrounded us and he followed an explanation of the domes having its multi-colored bands which if will be observed, its alternating black and orange. The black or dark-colored layers means that it has higher clay content and hold the moisture better and longer where a type of bacterial algae survives. While the lighter color or the orange one has less clay and dries fast and because of oxidisation, the rusting happened. These photos are part of Day 4 (The Bungle Bungles) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Echidna Chasm is one of the highlights of Purnululu National Park which can be found at the western part of Bungle Bungle Range. This part of the park gives the visitor a chance to walk in a narrow chasm to witness or observe a weak point or fault and how it was developed into a chasm. There were few steps provided along the chasm walk to ease the steps to reach the end. And experience few boulders found along the chasm that had been fell while chasm was developed happened millions years ago. These photos are part of Day 3 (Purnululu National Park) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Discovery (Post#40) : Ord River (Lake Argyle) Dam Wall
Knowing that Lake Argyle is a man-made reservoir was a disbelief for me at first. I was amazed when I learned it. It was the biggest reservoir that I had seen so far up to date. For me it wasn’t look like a man-made dam, but it is. The thing that made me realized that it was a man-made was the dam wall itself which called Ord River Dam Wall or Lake Argyle Dam Wall. These photos are part of Day 2 (Judbarra/Lake Argyle) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Ord River Dam or Lake Argyle is now one of the worlds largest man made water bodies and was formed by an earth and rock filled dam in the Carr Boyd Ranges. Ord River Dam was constructed to provide a major storage reservoir that will maintain a stable level in Lake Kununurra, which enabled the water to be diverted by gravity to the Ivanhoe Plain. The permanent water supply to Lake Kununurra also enabled the development for irrigated land on the adjacent Packsaddle Plain.
Discovery (Post#39) : Victoria River (aka “The Vic”)
“The Vic”, the passionate name of Victoria River is the backbone of the region was explored by European Captain J.C. Wickham in 1839 when he arrived at the mouth of the river with HMS Beagle. And he was the one that name the river after Queen Victoria. It was said to be the longest river in Northern Territory but in international standards, it was only second from Katherine/Daly River. These photos are part of Day 2 (Judbarra/Lake Argyle) of 9 Days Darwin to Broome Overland Adventure Tour October 2016.
Leaving Darwin City in few minutes and arriving in an open space made me wonder why we were in open space just beside the Stuart Highway. And while we were walking in the ground, we found few old plane drawings that are displayed within the airfield. I just realized that the said place is a historical Strauss Airfield which used during World War II and closed in 1945. These photos are part of Litchfield National Park Tour Photo Collection September 2016.
Spitfire VIII – should represent as pinnacle of Merlin Spitfire design.
Spitfire – The aircraft established air superiority and effectively ended Japanese hopes
The P-40 – Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk has world-wide reputation as sturdy workhorse
Discovery (Post#37) : Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) Holds World Record
One of the things that worth to know while visiting the center was to discover that one of the most important document in the world is translated to most number of languages which is just right. One thing that I hope in the future, that the museum will tell the visitor that it is the most translated document for all languages so that every human lives will be able to understand its rights. The photo is part of Center for Civil and Human Rights Museum Visit Photo Collection November 2015.
Discovery (Post#36) : White Spotted Jelly (Phyllorhiza Punctata)
This jelly is said to be invasive as it disrupts ecosystems along the east and west coast of the US by eating the zooplankton that native jellies rely on. I enjoyed watching these jellies as it looks like they are in their natural habitat. These photos are part of Georgia Aquarium Visit Photo Collection November 2015.
I just learned something about this quite unique specifies. It has chromatophores, a structures on its skin that allow it to change color to camouflage itself or to warn away predators. These species are not for consumption because of its flesh with unique toxin. These photos are part of Georgia Aquarium Visit Photo Collection November 2015.
Discovery (Post#34) : Carriage Stone – Underground Atlanta
Walking inside the streets of Underground such as Lower Alabama Street and Lower Pryor Street has some benefits in rediscovering history of Atlanta. One of the reminders of the old city are the carriages stones that still exist at the front of the stores along the street. Honestly, I didn’t knew the carriages stones means something until I read historical facts about its uses. It is used as step for the people who alighted from horse-drawn carriages so that their feet will not get dirty specially if the street became muddy. These photos are part of Atlanta Walks Photo Collection November 2015.
Discovery (Post#33) : 138-Foot Tower (Peach Drop) – Underground Atlanta
When I walked towards Underground and when I passed the Peachtree Fountain Plaza, I saw a 138-foot tower. I didn’t knew at first if its significant in the area, the tower used where a huge like peach is drop as part of New Year’s Celebration in the city. Then, when I learned about Peach Drop, I realized the function of the tower. And then, while I was looking for information about Underground, I discovered something about the reasoning behind the 138-Foot Tower. The 138 Foot symbolizes the 138 miles of the railroad run from Downtown Atlanta to Chattanooga Tennessee. These photos are part of Atlanta Walks Photo Collection November 2015.
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