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We actually ended our driving holiday of two weeks through Queensland and northern NSW in mid September. Winter was and is always the best time for photography I believe when the sun is in the northern sky and we don't get so many harsh shadows in the middle of the day. Just right for August holidays normally. Two weeks of holidays has taken 12+ weeks to roll out the images. I hope you have enjoyed a few of them. I'm happy as I need a little break, flickr can become a big commitment!
Whoops, nearly forgot, this is the beautiful Tweed Valley just outside of and looking west from Murwillumbah in Northern NSW. We took the express route up the Pacific Highway from here, all the current roadworks are complete which makes for a great run!
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History tells us that when Captain Cook sailed up the east coast of Australia in 1770, upon espying the dangerous headland that now marks the eastern end of the Queensland/New South Wales border, he named it Point Danger. He was yet to encounter the Great Barrier Reef! At the same time, as a reminder to following seafarers he named the prominent mountain inland, Mt Warning.
Once upon a time, it was fashionable to climb Mt Warning and watch the sun rise on special days of the year but it is now closed for reasons not dissimilar to that at Uluṟu. "Wollumbin (Mount Warning) summit track and Aboriginal Place remains closed. Decisions about the future of the summit track will be made by the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service in accordance with the wishes of Aboriginal custodians".
This scene from the Tweed Valley area near Murwillumbah looks towards the prominent peak across sugar cane fields.
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Being a Queenslander, I could almost live on the smell of a sugar mill! But sugar cane is also cultivated in the Northern Rivers district of New South Wales. Three mills ply their trade in the area, Condong in the Tweed River area, Broadwater (this one) in the Richmond River area and Harwood, the southern most on the Clarence River. Condong used to be connected to the NSW rail system (but not now) - all three otherwise and unlike most Queensland mills rely solely on road transport to bring in the cut cane.
The truck seen on the old highway is a sugar cane truck, coming to or leaving the mill.
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Photo taken from the 18th floor of the Ritz hotel, Perth, Western Australia.
TOKIO (ANP/RTR/BLOOMBERG) - Japan beschuldigt China ervan dat Chinese gevechtsvliegtuigen hun radar hebben gericht op Japanse vliegtuigen boven internationale wateren. Het Japanse ministerie van Defensie betitelt de actie als "gevaarlijk".
Op X zei de Japanse minister van Defensie Shinjiro Koizumi dat de handeling verder ging dan "wat noodzakelijk is om een vlucht veilig te houden". Hij zei dat Japan bij China protest heeft aangetekend over het "spijtige" incident, dat kan duiden op een aanval.
Het incident gebeurde boven gebied dat door Japan en China wordt geclaimd. Het wordt beschouwd als het ernstigste in jaren en kan de spanningen tussen beide landen verder doen oplopen.
De verstandhouding tussen China en Japan verslechterde toen de Japanse premier Sanae Takaichi waarschuwde dat Japan in actie kan komen als China Taiwan aanvalt. Taiwan, dat door China wordt beschouwd als een afvallige provincie, ligt maar 110 kilometer van het meest westelijke Japanse eiland Yonaguni af.