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Dennis Andress

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Bruce, Nice shots, and Happy Birthday. BTW nice bike name!

 

Thank you.

 

Thank you.

 

Thank you. She's named after the wife of one of WA's most well-known entrepreneurs, who financed our winning the America's Cup, then crashed and burned spectacularly. He was Alan Bond; she was Eileen Bond, known as "Big Red" (she was a ranga ... a redhead). My bike is red ... hence Big Red ... hence Eileen (apart from the play on words "I lean")

 

:/ Oh well, it seemed funny at the time. :grin:

 

PS: My cameras are nothing out of the box ... Fuji mostly ... "semi" DSLR. I've just been lucky to be in the right place at the right time ... the Bali photo was taken with my wife's point-and-shoot :)

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Monday already?? :cry:

 

The Pinnacles Desert, Nambung National Park, about 90 minutes north of Perth. For anyone who's interested, there's a short movie I made of riding through it:

 

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Part of the Perth skyline and Swan River, taken from Kings Park

 

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Cable Beach, Broome, in the North-West

 

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Lake Beauvert, Jasper, Alberta

 

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:rofl:

 

...and did you take a picture of the other one?

 

I think you've just presented a reason for another topic. We go to a restaurant that uses straw dolls to designate their restrooms (isn't that what you call them?). They both looked the same to me but I finally realized that one had a small bow in it's straw hat. Glad I wasn't in a rush. :eek:

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Old fort gate, Fort Canning, Singapore

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Boat Quay, Singapore

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View from the breakfast deck: River Kwai Noi: Home Phu Toey Resort, Kanchanaburi District, Thailand

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Water lilies, Home Phu Toey resort, Kanchanaburi, Thailand

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It's not fair that the folks down under get a head start on "Mondays suck" Great shots

 

Yeah, but look at it this way -- I've been at work for the past 3 or 4 hours already ... :cry:

 

Mind you, I finish on Fridays before you, too :grin:

 

Thanks for the kind words.

 

Bruce

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The beach at Laguna Redang Island Resort; off the coast of Terengganu State, Malaysia

 

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The "floating mosque" (Tengku Tengah Zaharah Mosque): Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia

 

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Japanese cemetery, Broome, in the north-west of Western Australia. The Japanese were the master pearl divers during the heyday of pearling.

 

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Hellfire Pass on the Burma – Thai Death Railway, Kanchanaburi, Thailand. Hellfire Pass itself is a 500 metres (550 yards) long and 26 metres (85 feet) deep section of rock that was dug out using picks, hammers and bare hands. Of the 1000 Australian and British POWs who took 12 weeks to clear the stretch of mountain, 700 died.

 

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Sunset on the Kuching River (Sugai Kuching), Sarawak. Unfortunately, it was almost too dark to get the clouds "boiling" over the mountain in the background.

 

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Protea

 

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Mangroves, Roebuck Bay, Broome, at low tide

 

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Waterfront and skyline, Seattle, WA

 

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These were all taken one Sunday on a solo ride to the east and north of Perth.

 

They are all taken in New Norcia, Australia's only monastic town, about 130 km/80 miles north of Perth.

 

It has a fascinating history:

 

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The Benedictine monastery gates:

 

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One of the schools (there were two -- a boys' and a girls') showing the (being restored) cloisters and handball courts at the rear:

 

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As a community, they were totally self-supporting (interestingly, the pump proudly still proclaims, on the little badge below the gallons counter, "Made in the USA"):

 

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The monastery chapel, showing the Spanish design influence:

 

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Paul Mihalka

To mow your lawn real fast. Seen in front of the Shady Valley Country Store:

 

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Raindrops on roses, And whiskers on kittens, Bright copper kettles

And warm woolen mittens. Brown paper packages Tied up with string,

These are a few of my favorite things.

 

Oh yeah almost forgot, Motorcycles & Airplanes! :grin:

 

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Pat

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That was 50 miles in on a road West of Loreto in Baja past a little town called San Javier and this is the third time I went down. All of these washes have 2 ways around them and if you choose the wrong way you have a chance of ending up like this. I was packed with all of my camping gear and every time I went down I had to pull the bags off and carry them over to the correct side and then ride the bike around and reload to continue on.

This is the road:

 

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And the San Javier mission:

 

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Nice pics! :thumbsup: My joke (not so funny) was that you must of lost a bolt holding the sidecar rig to the GS. :)

 

 

Pat

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Nice pics! :thumbsup: My joke (not so funny) was that you must of lost a bolt holding the sidecar rig to the GS. :)

 

 

Pat

 

Sorry, missed that one, went right over my head. I don't always run sidecars:

 

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AdventurePoser
That was 50 miles in on a road West of Loreto in Baja past a little town called San Javier and this is the third time I went down....

 

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And the San Javier mission:

 

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Nice pics of the mission. When in Loreto we debated heading over there, but a pina colada had my name on it...

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If you get the chance the trip out to San Javier is well worth it.

 

The town;

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More of the mission;

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The road;

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On a ride up Mount Lemmon last week I came across this rock formation. Is that not 50-yard-Phil in profile or what :grin:

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