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yesterday my heart skipped about 10 beats when i lost a pike. i was using a white toby spoon. it was 2 feet from the bank so i could see it then suddenly this pike (about 5 to 6 lb) came out of the darkness took a swipe at my toby and just clipped the trebble it then had a second try and as fast as it appeared it vanished in the same way. it was realy somthing to see and the fact that i didnt hook up meant nothing
Good one mate, it is great to see your positive attitude. There will (I hope) be many fish come your way in the future. Have lost some big barramundi at the last moment and I never lose the thrill of it all.
Well done
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I don't know what it is doing but it sure ain't guarding no eggs.
Scratches bal....er.....head and wonders what nature is doing these days. Seems there are a few more eggs since the photo was taken
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Took this pic of a caterpiller "guarding" eggs.....Is this correct?????
It has been in that position for the past 3 days
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WHO FORGOT THE SUNFLOWER SEEDS??
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Bob Joynes
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I thought it was "Donkey Seranade" with all the "asses"
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An Orb spider in the custard apple tree.
Jewel spider, a rellie of the Orb...
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In Pharmacology, all drugs have two names, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name of Tylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also called Naproxen. Amoxil is also call Amoxicillin and Advil is also called Ibuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.
Pfizer Corp announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to the names of "cocktails", "highballs" and just a good old-fashioned "stiff drink". Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.
Thought for the day: there is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and absolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
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A dragonfly perched on an old orchid spike
A couple of wings on the dragonfly
Amazed at the sheen on the wings!!
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Got this bee eater using the zoom lens from 30 metres away, and had to sharpen the image.
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A couple of flowers from Mackay, Qld.
Golden Allamanda
White orchid, dendrobium "White Knight"
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Just bought this gem:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/panasonicfz7/
It only comes with the 16 mb card so, I went and bought a 256 mb card.
Apart from that, it is brilliant
A good source of info is:
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Australian joke......well some of us understand it.......I think
Two aboriginals were driving their old Ford Falcon in the outback one day, when off in the distance they saw a police booze bus.
One of them thinks "this is great" and heads straight for it. As they pulled up, the driver winds his window down and says "Two cans of Emu Export thanks mate!"
The copper looks at him and says "You must be drunk! Get out of the car and blow into this tube for me."
The driver got out of the car and said "Sorry boss, I can't blow in that. I got a letter from the doc saying I'm asthmatic and I'll pass out if I blow in that."
The cop looks at him and with a bemused look and says "OK. In these cases we require you to give a blood sample.
"Nah nah sorry boss. Can't be doin' that. I got a letter from the Red Cross saying I'm a Haemophiliac and I could bleed to death. Sorry boss, can't do that," said the driver.
By now the copper is getting fairly irate and finally demands a urine sample for testing. The driver looks at him and says "Sorry boss, can't do that either." The copper says "Surely you can't have a letter for that!!!"
"Bloody oath mate." says the driver, "It's from the government. Says that you whites can ' t take the **** out of us blackfellas no more.
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Yes but there was a flaw in the plan, Instead of guarding it with troops they should have put in turnstiles with a coin slot, that would have kept them all out
Och aye the noo.
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Thanks, The originals are great too. Sharper, more colourful.
Some good work there, Jaybee.
Can I join the rockfest, please? Good musician, can't sing, can't whistle, but my feet hum.
Opal from Qld
Gem quality spessartite garnets in galena, from Broken Hill
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The Americans are so concerned about illegal immigration that they plan to build a 700 mile long fence along their southern border-
Been done before.
Didn't the Italians do that, to keep the jocks out of England a while back????
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0630 hrs The two miners are still trapped and the rescuers have had to change direction slightly, due to harder rock. There is still a couple of metres to go.
After 13 days cooped up in a safety cage, the two blokes want to walk out of the mine under their own steam.
The funeral for the dead miner will be held on tuesday........
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Wales in the UK may be the size of MD but it has lots more folks.
And the numbers on how clueless many of my countrymen (especially the younger ones) were on geography is not a surprise.
Iron Chef America this evening featured Barramundi as the item the chefs had to kill, clean, cook for the competition. First time either had ever worked with the fish I think.
The cooking comp has nothing to do with this thread but ......
Ah, so.
They would have a job cleaning this fat girlie, hey?
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Not surprised that Bush might have thought that.
1 Wales, Alaska
2 Wales, Iowa
3 Wales, Minnesota
4 Wales, North Dakota
5 Wales, Wisconsin
6 Wales, Tennessee
7 Wales, Kentucky
8 Wales, Utah
9 Wales, Massachusetts
Wales is about the same size as Maryland
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Did a web search and came up with this gem......from National Geographic:
WASHINGTON - Despite the wall-to-wall coverage of the damage from Hurricane Katrina, nearly one-third of young Americans recently polled couldn't locate Louisiana on a map and nearly half were unable to identify Mississippi.
Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 fared even worse with foreign locations: six in 10 couldn't find
Iraq, according to a Roper poll conducted for
National Geographic.
Planned is a five-year, multimedia campaign called My Wonderful World that will target children 8 to 17. The goal is to motivate parents and educators to expand geographic offerings in school, at home and in their communities.
They will have their task cut out for them, judging by the results of the survey of 510 people interviewed in December and January.
Among the findings:
• One-third of respondents couldn't pinpoint Louisiana on a map and 48 percent were unable to locate Mississippi.
• Fewer than three in 10 think it important to know the locations of countries in the news and just 14 percent believe speaking another language is a necessary skill.
• Two-thirds didn't know that the earthquake that killed 70,000 people in October 2005 occurred in Pakistan.
• Six in 10 could not find Iraq on a map of the Middle East.
• While the outsourcing of jobs to India has been a major U.S. business story, 47 percent could not find the Indian subcontinent on a map of Asia.
• While Israeli-Palestinian strife has been in the news for the entire lives of the respondents, 75 percent were unable to locate
Israel on a map of the Middle East.
• Nearly three-quarters incorrectly named English as the most widely spoken native language.
• Six in 10 did not know the border between North and
South Korea is the most heavily fortified in the world. Thirty percent thought the most heavily fortified border was between the United States and Mexico.
Joining in the effort to improve geographic knowledge will be the 4-H, American Federation of Teachers, Asia Society, Association of American Geographers, National Basketball Association, National Council of La Raza, National PTA,
Smithsonian Institution and others.
"Geography exposes children and adults to diverse cultures, different ideas and the exchange of knowledge from around the world," said Anna Marie Weselak, president of the National PTA. "This campaign will help make sure our children get their geography — so they can become familiar with other cultures during their school years and move comfortably and confidently in a global economy as adults."
I wonder if these people were involved in the making of Google earth???????
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Checked out google earth last night and, it appears, they don't know much about the Whitsundays......They missed Brampton Island, Ladysmith Island and put the wrong names on other islands. Rabbit Island is really Newry Island.......Wonder if Washington DC has been put in Iraq?????......Or, is Concord now in Texas??????
No wonder George W Bush thought Wales was in one of the United States
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Is it a member of the carp family and are you trying to pull its head off for the camera? rolleyes.gif
No, mate It is "lates calcarifer" a family of 3 species in SE Asia
No, mate, the fish was what we call, "boofing" ie inhaling and flaring the gills. The barra do that to ingest baitfish and the sound/shock wave can be heard/felt through a boat.
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IS it worth going on a specific fishing holiday in late november or would things of really slowed down by then?
November and december for barramundi in Qld.......
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Who allows this to happen??
This barra weighed 56 lbs and measured 1.11 metres (44 inches)
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Getting the hang of this photo thingy
This is "Breakfast".....
The sand bubble crabs only grow to about 7 mm. This is the remains of a feeding session... Our local beach.
Mrs Wallaby, unfortunately, her joey did not appear.
Spur winged plover.
Tibouchina "Alstonville"
Hibiscus "Sunburst"
Calling All Entomologists
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Weird, as the caterpillar does move its upper body, but I think you might be right, mate.
Thanks for that.