Gawler Show

Gawler Show 30 & 31th August 2008

Gawler is situated 45 minutes north of Adelaide. The first settler arrived in 1839, making Gawler SA earliest country town. The picturesque town is renowned for its magnificent architecure, trees, cast iron lace work, Church Hill State Heritage Area and its 10 Historic Hotels.

The Gawler Horticultural and Agricultural Show is South Australia's largest country show.



Mc Donald is there for celebration too. Photo taken during Grand parades.



Horses in action



Musicians during Grand Parade.



Cattle



Sylvester and police's cars



Old Mc Donald has a farm



Felicity the cow girl



Felicity riding a pony. A realisation of her first dream.



Felicity winning her prize for ctahcing the bull.



A colourful butterflies couple.



Tractors in parade



Tractor operator



Amusement park for the children



Lucky draw

Google Street View

Google map has a new feature. That is Street View. It is amazing, the photo of the house is shown when the address of the house is entered.

Click on the thumnail photo, a full photo of the house is shown.

Have you notice the navigation button.

Click the rotate button, you could rotate the view by 360 degree.

Click the little arrow, you can do a virtual tour of the suburb.

I don't think the street view was taken by the satelite. Somebody must have taken photos of all the streets last summer. Notice all the brown grass and the sun. How they took the 360 degree in such a great details is mystery. Virtual tour to all areas is now possible thanks to google. It is a free service too.

Lower grade fish for state, higher grade to ‘mother ship’

I read this report from The Borneo Post today. Refer to the this link http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=39541.

The information is confirmed and disclosed by Fisheries Department Authority. The subsidy diesel suppose to be allocated to the local fishermen but was instead provided to foreign fishing vessels that unloaded the good catch to 'mother ship' and left the lower grade fish for the state. The local fishermen were left with no fuel and risk losing their livelihood.

This is something that all MAlaysians shall seroiusly think about to what happens to the country.

Sea Creature

I went to the South Australian Museum last weekend due to the request of my kids. It is a surprise that I am allowed to take photos inside the museum. But with one condition, flash is not allowed. That's pose a new challenge to my camera. I just learned that my camera is not good to take picture at low illumination due to the small aperture and second rated sensor. It is time to try out and prove how good it can be.

The photos here are all sea creatures. I like the stories of sea creature like jaws. The last book I read is Beast by Peter Benchley. The beast is a giant squid that forced to feed on human due to depleting food source in the deep sea caused by over fishing. The SA museum has a giant squid exhibit inside an old lift shaft. The squid is a few storey length.

This is the giant squid
The tentakel of giant squid at the sea floor
Addyman Plesiosaur

Roller Shuttle Window

The old awning at my house was replaced with roller shuttle windows yesterday.

Before

After

Experiment with photobucket

Thanks to Greg Wee. Finally I could have a bigger image in my blog. I tried to do this before by editing the settings of blogger.com but was unsuccessful. I believe blogspot.com has placed a maximum resolution or file size of the image. Anybody know how to display a bigger image in blogspot.com please advise me.

The only problem to have a link from photobucket is I have to set up two different sites. It is only me being lazy.