Amazing picture thread

[NamPikToot]

I spent some time in the Falkland Is. At certain times of the year the local homesteaders are allowed to harvest Penguin eggs. I stayed with a family on their farm settlement and they offered me Poached Penguin Eggs. I didn't get a piccy and was quite hungover as they properly plied me with local brew the previous night. I nearly chucked the eggs up the following morning, the Whites were translucent, the Yolk was almost red and they smelt and tasted of fish - not the most pleasant brekkie i've ever had. The piccy below is of boiled ones but you get the idea.

[Maanaam]

Maanaam, Bermagui is in the south coast of NSW -OZ.

Oh, ok. I didn't know. For some reason (probably that the guys were specifically shark hunting) I assumed it was SA. I thought Aus frowned upon shark hunting.
Thanks for the info.
Nevertheless, great whites are still relevant to the context of the story.
Cheers.

[GRUMPY]

Damn! Wrong thread....

[Boon Mee]

TB Treatment for Children at Springfield House Open Air School. London. UK, 1932

[Luigi]

Could be the Chiang Mai safe zone.

[OhOh]

^^Lots of TB around in those days.

[Neverna]

I knew an old woman in her 90s who until her dying day called TB “consumption".

[Maanaam]

TB Treatment for Children at Springfield House Open Air School. London. UK, 1932

Those cots with pipe frames... I would expect in 1932 they would have been wood frames. And the architecture seems out of place for London 1932. But apparently it's genuine.

[OhOh]

I would expect in 1932 they would have been wood frames

Bamboo?

Aren't they solar panels on the roof?

[Maanaam]

Bamboo?

Aren't they solar panels on the roof?

Not bamboo. No sections, all smooth.
I first thought solar panels, but I googled the school and their premise was to reduce TB by lots of fresh air and sunlight, so I expect those panels are skylights. Still, the buildings do not resemble what I imagine 1930's architecture to have been.

[OhOh]

by lots of fresh air and sunlight,

SOP at the time I've been told.

[GRUMPY]

[jabir]

Bloke in a bird suit?



Nope, a shoe billed stork.

[jabir]

Trees that refuse to die.






This palm tree fell down, but got up again.




The only tree that survived the Jap tsunami, between 70,000 Trees; today protected and restored.




This one fell over, and regenerated four trees from itself.



This spawned 7







Growing through a street sign?




Chopped down doesn't mean dead.








Roots extend across gap to the mainland for nutrients




Ta Promh Temple, Cambodia






Someone hung their skates on a small tree, forgot about them, grand-kids found them years later




Bit lonely




Not very smart, they don't always know it's winter.




Hungry trees...
















Bit of a squeeze, but life finds a way!




Cliff's gone, so what!

[OhOh]

Truly amazing photos of trees that overcame man's and natural obstacles, thanks.

[Ukan Kizmiaz]

^^ fantastic - nature is amazing - even more so than the internet.
Thanks (can't green)

[Eliminator]

AWESOME pics Jabir and thank you.

[jabir]

Skull of a swordfish

[jabir]

Taiwan Blue Magpie in flight

[harrybarracuda]

Hirsohima survivor Shigeki Tanaka winning the Boston Marathon in 1951. The sour-faced seppos didn't clap.

[jabir]

^ nice, provocative

[tomcat]

...^nice, treacly...

[jabir]

1937 Golden Gate Bridge under construction

[jabir]

Every little bit of scrap helps the war effort (Boston, 1942)

Imagine if such conditions returned, how would snowflakes cope?

[jabir]

Looking for a book in the Cincinnati Library, 1955.