Er yup, that's it Brian! I recognise it clearly! Lol. I have taken 3 trips across the Nullarbor by car as a kid, and it never does change much, does it? Lol.
The highlight of course is the Great Australian Bite, but I am too scared of heights to go anywhere near the edge to get a decent look! Even so, that memory isn't half as scary as it was to be a 5 year old, arriving in Perth after a 5 day drive from Sydney across the Nullarbor with my newly single Dad and my bottom length mane of hair, san brush. He had no idea what to do with my pride and joy, and upon arriving in Perth drove directly to a hairdressers and had them cut the mangled, dreadlocked mess that it had become during that drive! I was horrified and cried for days and that is pretty much the extent of my "precious" Nullarbor memories! Lol. Oh, well, that and being extremely car sick the entire way! Tan..x -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Walters Sent: Monday, 27 December 2010 8:36 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: OT - Christmas on the Nullarbor Plain (with snake) On Mon, 27 Dec 2010 03:19 -0500, "John Francis" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 08:52:23AM +0200, Boris Liberman wrote: > > What an odd name for the location - _null_arbor... My immediate > > reaction - it is a forest of null (binary?!) trees or something... > > /very curious and somewhat mischievous grin/. > > > > Boris > > 15 seconds spent with Google of Wikipedia would have explained it nicely. > > From the wikipedia entry on Nullarbor: > > The word Nullarbor is derived from the Latin nullus, "no", and arbor, > "tree", And just as illustration, here's a photo taken from the window of the Indian Pacific transcontinental train as we crossed the Nullarbor in 2009: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1370864/nullarbor.jpg Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - One of many happy users: http://www.fastmail.fm/docs/quotes.html -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
