Another Good Day

[Jonn]

About the same temperature range as here but the air is drier here.

The humidity is bad here in summer because we are surrounded by the blue mountains, but now air conditioning is common.
Back 40 years ago, we went to the highlands to escape it.

 

[Jonn]

Adelaide ended up with Australia's highest concentration of British migrants, that and the fact that this city did not start as a penal colony means we have a slightly more upper class English accent than the rest of the country.

It's a pretty diverse city these days though, big enough to have everything you could want but not overcrowded.

A lot of German immigrants went to SA to escape religious persecution, I believe.
The Barossa Valley.

These ‘Old Lutherans’ fled their homeland because the King of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm III, had decreed in 1817 that all his subjects must use his new worship book and join the Union Church, which he set up by combining the Lutheran and the Reformed Church. Those who did not obey this order could be fined, imprisoned, or have their belongings confiscated.

https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/subjects/germans-in-south-australia

 

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The humidity is bad here in summer because we are surrounded by the blue mountains, but now air conditioning is common.
Back 40 years ago, we went to the highlands to escape it.

Here it's almost desert country, as I mentioned earlier in the thread 32 is just a very pleasant spring day here, you wouldn't think of going swimming unless it's over 35. And because the air's dry the temperature usually drops pretty low again overnight.

I remember as kids the whole family sleeping out in the back yard a few times when it was too hot inside though.

I spent quite a few years living in Melbourne and that's also humid, 32 is a hot day in Melbourne but when it's cold in Melbourne that cold rips right through to your bones. One year while I was living there they had 5 consecutive days over 40, the first few days were unbearable but after that the place dried out and it was like 40 degrees in Adelaide.

And yes, I grew up 20 minute's drive from the Barossa. I was never a big wine drinker but there's also German Bakeries and there I have a small addiction. Bienenstich.

[Edit] I thought it was funny when I found out that Bienenstich translates as Bee Sting, but then it was pointed out to me that the English have a pudding called Spotted Dick.

 

[Gerald Wilgus]

Nice biking. I love having paved trails. There is one near me that follows the Betsie River into a small port city on Lake Michigan. Tomorrow I'll be riding the Heritage Trail through the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, past sand dunes, beaches, historic sites, lifesaving stations, old farming homesteads and small towns.

 

[SusanLR]

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That bee sting stuff looks really good.

It is still really hot and humid in Florida. Heat warnings not to go outside.
Being from the desert SW, I was used to dry heat and learned to like rocks.
That's probably why the Ayers rock is interesting.
Also, there is something called the Black Mountain there.
I don't think they let people go in there anymore either.
Lore has it they are cursed?
'Don't muck around with the spirits': Black Mountain's dark secrets

Did you eat a lot of beans on your excursion?

Still full of beans.

 

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That bee sting stuff looks really good.

It is good. It wasn't until I was adult that I found out what it is they put in the middle, it's like custard but it's made with Marzipan.

Also, there is something called the Black Mountain there.
I don't think they let people go in there anymore either.
Lore has it they are cursed?

It's sad that they have to do this at so many sites now, it's because of the Instagram idiots.

Visiting Black Mountain isn't actually banned, but visiting without first getting permission and a local guide will likely see you get roughed up a bit at the back of your hotel room later that night. They have suffered too much disrespect and too much vandalism.

Imagine a bunch of foreigners walking in to your local church and kicking the pulpit over because it's in the way of a really good selfie. Sunflower and Canola farmers are having the same trouble, dozens of people trampling their crops to get a good shot, the Instagrammers are now in danger of getting shot.

You'll be surprised at where you'll be allowed to go and what you'll be able to see if you talk to people and show a little respect. This country has a lot of little secrets to see that much of the world doesn't know about.

A funny example of this is in the township of Katherine. Just south of Katherine are some famous thermal springs that are a popular tourist attraction, Mataranka. The colours in the picture below haven't been enhanced, the mineral rich waters are that blue and that's what it really looks like.

There's another thermal spring exactly the same as Mataranka inside the CBD of Katherine. Behind the scout hall. Every time the council or the local business association puts a sign up pointing to the spring the local residents destroy it. It's their spring and they don't want tourists ruining it for them.

 

[Jonn]

Imagine a bunch of foreigners walking in to your local church and kicking the pulpit over because it's in the way of a really good selfie. Sunflower and Canola farmers are having the same trouble, dozens of people trampling their crops to get a good shot, the Instagrammers are now in danger of getting shot.

But, but, but, I was born and bred in Australia.
Australia is my country.

 

[SusanLR]

Tourists can sure be a problem.
Only those who understand and respect nature and the sacredness of it can go as one with it all. Be a part of it.

The blue spring is beautiful.
Same thing happens here when tourists get involved.
More so in Florida, especially beach areas, than in the Ozarks in Missouri.
Everything was open and accessible in the mountains and forests there.
Rarely anything was destroyed or messed up.

Florida is different now.
Nature areas I have seen that were so beautiful when I moved here in 1981
have become tourist areas. Many lock down at sunset.
The once peaceful streams and forests are now built up and nature is gone.
It is sad to see, but people call it progress and good for state income.
This happens to many places.
I can see why the Australians react and protect.
And I'm sure there are gems to visit there if they are admired and respected. Sunflowers!

 

[All-Rounder]

"Imagine a bunch of foreigners walking in to your local church and kicking the pulpit over because it's in the way of a really good selfie. Sunflower and Canola farmers are having the same trouble, dozens of people trampling their crops to get a good shot, the Instagrammers are now in danger of getting shot. "

I've got to say that was tempting, especially taking into consideration my religius dislikes. I was in the church yesterday, and I was wearing a very short skirt and stockings, I was just there to take pictures and did not get kicked out thankfully. I was also wearing deer ears, so they could have interpreted me to be Lucifer of Satanism rather.

Spoiler

But my dislike of social media especially instagram, when I was on this dating app 99% of the women were inviting me to their insta and it was all for more popularity, not to date. Very odd narcissism.

I don't post my pics to sucktial mydia, they're rather for myself and close ones.

 

[All-Rounder]

Here it's almost desert country, as I mentioned earlier in the thread 32 is just a very pleasant spring day here, you wouldn't think of going swimming unless it's over 35. And because the air's dry the temperature usually drops pretty low again overnight.

I remember as kids the whole family sleeping out in the back yard a few times when it was too hot inside though.

I spent quite a few years living in Melbourne and that's also humid, 32 is a hot day in Melbourne but when it's cold in Melbourne that cold rips right through to your bones. One year while I was living there they had 5 consecutive days over 40, the first few days were unbearable but after that the place dried out and it was like 40 degrees in Adelaide.

And yes, I grew up 20 minute's drive from the Barossa. I was never a big wine drinker but there's also German Bakeries and there I have a small addiction. Bienenstich.

[Edit] I thought it was funny when I found out that Bienenstich translates as Bee Sting, but then it was pointed out to me that the English have a pudding called Spotted Dick.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_dickI was surprised it even appears on Wiki, when I first heard about it.

 

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I was surprised it even appears on Wiki, when I first heard about it.

I'm surprised you got a picture of a pudding.

 

[Jonn]

Tourists can sure be a problem.
Only those who understand and respect nature and the sacredness of it can go as one with it all. Be a part of it.

Control the nuisance ppl but don't punish respectful ones.
Simple.