LCA09
Tasmania is teh ace. Forestry Tasmania, the Hydro Electric Comission, Queenstown mining and Gunns workers (and 100 years of respective Tasmanian Premiers) can go stick large poles up their bums, but the rest of the state and linux geeks are teh ace.
I'm at Sydney airport, and it is 40 degrees. And the air conditioning is barely coping. Zowie. Walking off the plane onto the tarmac when one is dressed for Hobart morning weather is a fun thing. And it sounds like the planes are threatening to get cancelled.
For some strange reason, while waiting for this flight that may or may not happen (Editor's note: it did happen), I just bought the New Zealand Lonely Planet. Even though it's by far not going to fit in my baggage (people who saw me haul my backpack around Hobart will attest to how lightly I travel).
I found out in Virgin's flight magazine on one of the previous legs that the Tassie Devil existed on the mainland 600 years ago. That they disappeared on the mainland before European arrival alleviates a tiny amount of my guilt that we may have fucked up. Is the current precarious state of the genetic diversity of the Devil an event that has been a long time coming? Or is it the result of the first time they were nearly brought to extinction around the time of death of the Thylacine?
What was the most beautiful thing about this year's LCA (besides Lagavulin 16 and an 16(?) yo independant bottling of Ardbeg, which will hopefully arrive by post in a few days time, and the raising of ~$40,000 by a bunch of Linux geeks for the Tassie Devil)? The quokka (or paddymelons? I can't tell the difference. They're both cute as all heck) bunny wabbit thingies in the front lawn of the college. I never had my camera with me when they were out though. Best Pre LCA sight? Perhaps the Hasting Caves, or perhaps the flora up on Mt Field East. Perhaps the echidna that didn't even care about the fact that I was walking past it. Why do I not have photos of this echidna (or the flora)? And not unrelated to this question, what was the most amusing moment? Perhaps when I dumped my camera in the drink while filling up my water bottle from a stream at Cradle Mountain, then dumped it in the drink again because I wasn't satisfied that it got wet enough the first time. Still works perfectly once the water evaporated out of the lense.
There are going to be a bunch of people I'm going to miss until I see them again in ~year.
My flickr LCA and pre-LCA stream is here.
I'm at Sydney airport, and it is 40 degrees. And the air conditioning is barely coping. Zowie. Walking off the plane onto the tarmac when one is dressed for Hobart morning weather is a fun thing. And it sounds like the planes are threatening to get cancelled.
For some strange reason, while waiting for this flight that may or may not happen (Editor's note: it did happen), I just bought the New Zealand Lonely Planet. Even though it's by far not going to fit in my baggage (people who saw me haul my backpack around Hobart will attest to how lightly I travel).
I found out in Virgin's flight magazine on one of the previous legs that the Tassie Devil existed on the mainland 600 years ago. That they disappeared on the mainland before European arrival alleviates a tiny amount of my guilt that we may have fucked up. Is the current precarious state of the genetic diversity of the Devil an event that has been a long time coming? Or is it the result of the first time they were nearly brought to extinction around the time of death of the Thylacine?
What was the most beautiful thing about this year's LCA (besides Lagavulin 16 and an 16(?) yo independant bottling of Ardbeg, which will hopefully arrive by post in a few days time, and the raising of ~$40,000 by a bunch of Linux geeks for the Tassie Devil)? The quokka (or paddymelons? I can't tell the difference. They're both cute as all heck) bunny wabbit thingies in the front lawn of the college. I never had my camera with me when they were out though. Best Pre LCA sight? Perhaps the Hasting Caves, or perhaps the flora up on Mt Field East. Perhaps the echidna that didn't even care about the fact that I was walking past it. Why do I not have photos of this echidna (or the flora)? And not unrelated to this question, what was the most amusing moment? Perhaps when I dumped my camera in the drink while filling up my water bottle from a stream at Cradle Mountain, then dumped it in the drink again because I wasn't satisfied that it got wet enough the first time. Still works perfectly once the water evaporated out of the lense.
There are going to be a bunch of people I'm going to miss until I see them again in ~year.
My flickr LCA and pre-LCA stream is here.