Straya land

06/11/2023

24/12/2022

📍 Woy Woy
Fresh seafood place

📍 Pearl beach
Beautiful blue clean beach lagoon 🏖

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02/11/2022

Snow 🌨 in November 🌨 ☃

18/10/2022

16/10/2022

16/10/2022

09/08/2022

Carpets of pink and yellow everlastings along the Pioneers' Pathway self-drive route in Western Australia

23/06/2022

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22/06/2022

Today is the winter ❄️ solstice - the shortest day of the year 🌔. While it's a day without much sunlight, this means that our days will start lengthening again from tomorrow 🤩.

🌅 Sunrise: 7.30 am
🌄 Sunset: 6.04 pm

Please be careful driving in the park after dark 🌓 for your own safety and for the safety of our nocturnal wildlife 🦘. Make sure you plan ahead to ensure you make the most of the limited daylight hours 🕧 and avoid travelling beyond the nearby resort town after sunset or before sunrise ☀️.

📸 Credit: .artiste

⭐ Please note that entry to the National Park outside of opening times is only permitted with a licensed tour operator. Visit the photography section on our website to find out more https://bit.ly/3O9Z6O8

22/06/2022

Ayu ready...? ☃️🏂⛷

And, just like that... NSW's 2022 ski season is on! Will you be visiting the slopes this winter? ❄️

Please plan ahead and check the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service website for the latest park details and alerts.

Thanks for sharing your moment IG/boenferguson
📍 Illawong Suspension Bridge, Kosciuszko National Park

19/06/2022

13/05/2022

Damper
Camping

24/04/2022

Lest We Forget 🌺

May Allah bless them and Rest in Peace 🙏
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Sergeant Abu Kassim was the Malayan-born pearl diver; Sergeant Soen Hin was the Timorese Chinese, fellow pearl diver.
THE VALOUR AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF SERGEANT TEH SOEN HIN AND SERGEANT ABU KASSIM WITH THE CRACK Z SPECIAL UNIT IN WORLD WAR II WERE GREATLY UNDER APPRECIATED. The eve of Anzac Day merits the telling of the achievements of these soldiers.
Kassim, the Malayan-born pearl diver, was soldier enough to serve with the army’s best in the crack Z Special Unit in World War II but not Australian enough to be allowed to wed the woman he loved, the Aboriginal mother of Labor senator Patrick Dodson. Other “allied aliens” such as his friend, Sergeant Teh Soen Hin, nicknamed the ‘champion warrior’ by the natives was treated just as badly too.
Kassim volunteered for the army in June 1942, leaving behind his “unmarried wife,” Patricia, in Broome with Faye and her little sister, Georgina, now 80. Kassim had repeatedly applied for permission to marry her, to no avail.
Kassim and his Timorese Chinese friend, fellow pearler Teh Soen Hin, were part of the embryonic Special Forces. Best known for the daring Krait raid on Singapore in 1943 in which a team of commandos paddled into the harbour to plant mines that sank or holed seven Japanese ships, Australia’s Z Special Unit was 1800-strong by 1944. Kassim and Teh were “countrymen” with six other infiltrators led by expatriate New Zealand major Toby Carter, the eyes and ears of the team who spoke the language and could pass as locals.
Instead of the hero’s welcome he deserved when he returned home from the war, Kassim had been barred from re-joining his family in the West Australian town of Broome and died a lonely death from illness and war wounds in distant Perth. He was buried in an unmarked grave in what was then the Muslim section of Karrakatta cemetery.
A sad indictment of the times, Teh was treated just as shabbily after the war. Teh spent years pursuing the housing and income benefits he professed to have been promised, but were rebuffed at every turn.
It is a sad story but one that needs to be told.
Photos: Abu Kassim, front right, next to mate Teh Soen Hin and other Z Special Unit members. Faye, left and Georgina Dodson with their father’s medals. Patrick Dodson with his sister Faye in Broome.
Picture: Nik Buttigieg

07/04/2022

29/01/2022

Taking Sydney through water

📍 cookatoo island 🏝

10/01/2022

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05/01/2022

📍 A beautiful Turkish Mosque in Bonnyrigg ❣

11/12/2021

📍 Sapho Books and Cafe

Bookstore with authentic books..and a cosy hidden cafe at the back ☕🥧

11/12/2021

📍 Glebe Market

Nice place for good bargain 👚🎩📢🥾🥿🧢🎼🎵👓🕶🧤🧦🧥👙

04/12/2021

14/11/2021

Assalamualaikum all 👋..

Here are the details about our homestay.

We have several other homestay too at other places in Sydney..so just message us how many pax and the date ok.

Prices after lockdown have been reduce tremendously for our great visitors so be sure to messenger me for details ok 👍

13/11/2021

Spring in CBD 🌸🌹

11/11/2021

07/11/2021

The incredible phenomenon was seen by residents across southern Australia.
📌SEE THE PICTURES: 7news.link/Aurora

17/10/2021

How to do CPR

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12/10/2021

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AURORA WATCH ✨ If seeing an aurora is on your bucket list, tonight may be your night!

The Bureau's Space Weather Services team has issued an Aurora Watch — an Aurora may be visible from Tasmania and the coastline of Victoria tonight (12 October).

Here are some tips to help you capture that perfect aurora shot:

• You ideally need a dark night with little cloud cover, so check our satellite viewer before you head out.
• You don't want a bright moon or any light pollution, so a good location is a dark beach or a hill where you have an unobstructed view to the south.
• Bright auroras usually last for 1–3 hours and the best viewing time is between 10 pm and 2 am.

How can you find out when an aurora is coming?

The Bureau issues Aurora Alerts, Watches and Outlooks for the aurora community, subscribe on our website at http://ow.ly/uD5i50Fanjl

📷 Leanne Marshall ( on Instagram) captured this photo of the aurora over the tulips fields in Moorleah, Tasmania last night

04/10/2021

✨An aurora is one of nature’s most spectacular visual phenomena and on Saturday night in parts of Tasmania, it did not disappoint.

Aurora in the northern hemisphere are called aurora borealis (or Northern Lights). In the southern hemisphere, they’re called the aurora australis. ‘Australis’ comes from the Latin word for ‘southern’ (or Southern Lights).

What is an aurora?
When charged particles from the Sun strike the atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere, they cause electrons in the atoms to move to a higher energy state. When the electrons return to their original energy level, they release energy in the form of light at different wavelengths. These different wavelengths create the spectacular colours that dance across the night sky.

The colour emitted depends on how energetic the collisions are, where they occur in the atmosphere and which atoms and molecules are involved. Oxygen releases greenish-yellow or red light, while nitrogen releases dark red or blue light.

The brightest aurora are concentrated in rings around the north or south poles. The aurora australis is best viewed from Antarctica, Tasmania and sometimes the southern coastlines of mainland Australia.

Learn more about auroras and sign up for alerts: http://ow.ly/NMAx50Gl1Mm

📷 ryan_shanz I/G captured this image at Port Sorell, Tasmania.

02/10/2021

Sun shiny day 😎