(My) Photo of the day

Yet again, I have been drawn to the water and the dazzling orange hull of the Aurora Australis!

I had intended to post a photograph of the visiting US Navy amphibious assault ship, the USS Tarawa. Unfortunately, none of my shots met with my strict editorial standards (I am a hard taskmaster). Thus, you get to see the Aurora again, albeit this time with a little friend on the left.

Not all is lost though, with Greg at Hobart Daily successfully capturing the visitors very nicely here. I was also pleased to hear a report from notorious man-about-town (and sometime commentator on this blog), the mysterious ‘Coach’, that the pride of the US Navy were spotted in full force at the thrilling clash between the Hobart versus Clarence blockbuster at North Hobart Oval on Saturday. By all accounts the Budweiser was flowing, the Hobart merchandise was flying out the door and even the good old National Pie went down well with the sailors.

Perhaps the AFL need to exploit this newfound love of the game and get past thinking about an expansion team in Western Sydney, and set there sights on South Carolina instead?

Comments

Coach said…

Thought you might like to know this as well - from one of my iregular sources:

"Had a chat to Phil about that this morning. He reckoned the sailors were buying 6 packs instead of individual beers. And one told him the ‘hotdog’ was the best he’d ever had as he ate a sav!! (And I thought selling savs no longer complied with health regulations.)"

13 May 2008 at 15:45

Kris McCracken said…

It's been a long time since I had a sav at the footy. I think the Cooee Bulldogs hosted that game! Let's just say that there was more gristle than dog on that stale roll.

It was always sausages or the dogs eye after that.

13 May 2008 at 20:49

Anonymous said…

Great shot! I always find it tempting to wander around the harbor area as there is always a good shot there somewhere!

13 May 2008 at 21:26

Mary Stebbins Taitt said…

WOW! That's a gorgeous boat! Ship?

Cool color, nice reflection.

16 May 2008 at 05:04

The D in D & T said…

Gorgeous photo, beautiful colors!

17 May 2008 at 00:23

Helen said…

This picture nearly bought tears to my dear husband's eyes. "The Auroa Disastrous" he said, "I remember it well". (Having sailed, or should that be motored, his way to the Antarctic 5 or 6 times, before I firmly put my foot down and said, "No More!")

23 May 2008 at 02:04

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke...

Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land

Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...

This will hurt me...

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