Archive for August 2010

AUSTRALIA VISIT – AYRES ROCK   Leave a comment

A dingo is a wild Australian dog. Some years ago a dingo took a small baby from a tent at Ayres Rock. The baby was never found. The mother did three years in jail before being released.  She was later paid $1.3 million in compensation but the ordeal wrecked her marriage and her life. The [...]

Posted August 20, 2010 by fathomTaiwan in My Australia pictures

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RADIO STATIONS VIA COMPUTER (plus a video)   Leave a comment

click twice to enlarge Go to www.surfmusic.de then ASIA, then TAIWAN.  Windows Media Player might be necessary and it can be downloaded from the site I noted. The English station is ICRT – which has few merits, rap music more often than not.  The late-night announcer is a lot of fun though, he raves from [...]

DEEP SEA PEARLS – NORTH WESTERN AUSTRALIA   Leave a comment

In the Australian winter, a good town to visit is Broome in the North of Western Australia.  It’s on the edge of a great dessert. Broome is the centre for pearl farming.  Some of my old diving friends got into the business either as divers or in one case as a pearl farmer. The original [...]