Herons out at sunset!
That dastardly delay on my camera meant that this wasn't one of the good shots, so I'll post you a few others:
These were taken on the banks of South Johnstone River ... all very pretty and everything but I should also post you a warning:
See this nice old guy out for his evening walk with his ONE dog and a very large stick? OK, you can't see the large stick but, trust me, he's definitely carrying one. Well, only a few days before I took this photo, he had TWO dogs ... but then a crocodile leapt out of the river and took one of them. No, seriously!! It was such a lovely dog too!
Mind you, that big stick isn't much use because you're fined A$250,000 if you even attempt to harm a crocodile, so beating one off when it tries to take your other dog isn't really an option!
There is something very wrong with this, isn't there! Here you have a place - North Queensland - where Laws are made by politicians down South who don't have to deal with the reality of the consequences of their abject and arrant stupidity.
Mmm, yes, South Johnstone River ...
... all very pretty ... until the screaming starts!
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"That dastardly delay on my camera..."
Solution: http://www.amazon.com/Canon-60D-3-0-Inch-18-200mm-Standard/dp/B0049WJWJ0/ref=sr_1_4?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1314756524&sr=1-4
No Delay. None.
Hope this helps.
All the best.
Just a thought.
VicB3
P.S. Can I interest you in a five year old (?) black Lab? Found wandering around the neighbourhood two months ago, starving - you could see the ribs; at least 20 lbs. underweight - two different kinds of mange - didn't even know there were two different kinds!- worms, heatworm, exhausted, you name it. Three weeks at the vet - there goes my new KSG shotgun (www.keltecweapons.com/news/preview-kel-tec-shotgun-ksg) for a while - and all the Blue Mountain, hot dogs, chuck roast and assorted crap - Oreos! - he can eat and, well, now he's downright shiny. Upside: House trained, knows how to ride in a car, sleeps on the bed, sweet natured.Downside: destroys - rips to shreds! - even the heaviest of heavy duty dog toys inside of 15 minutes, hates being alone and he chases the cat. And the cat hates his guts.
Will deliver. Send E-mail and will reply with picture.
You do know, don't you, that you never feed dogs chocolate. They can't process the enzymes and it kills them. I have memories of you feeding chocolate biscuits to your labs, and also how your two 18 month-old dogs couldn't jump over the same rocks our 12 year old dog could do easily. I also recall how your mum used to put your dogs into a spa bath for their arthritis, which was probably caused by those damn biscuits in the first place.
So please don't feed this poor waif-lab any oreos. It's just CRUEL!
1-Damned dog was starving and starved. Trying to fatten him up. Was 52 Lbs two months ago. Now more like 60. 70 to 80 lbs on a lab male - this is a big one - is about right and the goal. Pretty much a straight meat diet; he doesn't like rice and turns up his nose at canned anything. But he is a garbage hound and heads straight to the cat food.
2-Not really feeding him Oreos. Indulged in 'narrative license' to emphasise the high caloric nature of his present diet. (I don't even keep that stuff around the house; too tempting.)Aware that labs run to fat so all that will taper off at some point, and hopefully will have found a home for him by then. (Big dog and cat fight yesterday; have the scratches to prove it.)
3-The 'Chocolate' in Oreos isn't really chocolate. Processed flavour and food colouring and HFCS and whatall. Yet another reason not to eat the damned things, and no matter how good the Double Stuff ones might be otherwise. (Mochi from the Mitsuwa Marketplace are pretty much my one indulgence, and those are usually made with raw sugar.)
4-His name is Geoffrey. So where do I send him? Will pay the freight, and you can use him to scare off the Bates Motel crazies in your building.
Just a thought. (And with a shift key that seems to be sticking for some reason.)
VicB3
Just a thought.
Vicb3
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