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 [...]
Archive for August 2010
AUSTRALIA VISIT – AYRES ROCK Leave a comment
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 [...]
