“Only a few days remain until the Australian government meets its self-imposed deadline and closes the prison that it created on Manus Island. On 31 October the imprisoned refugees are supposed to be transferred from the regional processing centre (RPC) to the small town of Lorengau. It is a place that reminds the refugees of violent attacks. . . . . ”
If you go to the above link, you’ll find that this is a very long and well written article by this Iranian refugee. The article has been
Translated by Omid Tofighian from Sydney University
Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50-degree Celsius days
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A new study warns that Melbourne and Sydney should prepare for 50-degree Celsius (122-degree Fahrenheit) summer days under the Paris Agreement global warming limit of 2 degrees Celsius (4 degrees Fahrenheit).
The new study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, assessed the potential magnitude of future extreme temperatures in Australia under Paris targets of an increase in global temperatures of 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius (3 and 4 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.
“Major Australian cities, such as Sydney and Melbourne, may experience unprecedented temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius under 2 degrees of global warming,” said Sophie Lewis, a climate researcher at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia and lead author of the new study. “The increase in Australian summer temperatures indicates that other major cities should also be prepared for unprecedented future extreme heat. Our climate modeling has projected daily temperatures of up to 3.8 degrees Celsius [7 degrees Fahrenheit] above existing records in Victoria and New South Wales, despite the ambitious Paris efforts to curb warming.”…more
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RESEARCH LETTERS
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Australia’s Unprecedented Future Temperature Extremes Under Paris Limits to Warming
Sophie C. Lewis, Andrew D. King, Daniel M. Mitchell
I hope, this is going to be the last part now. I think, our stay at BIG4 Nambucca Holiday Park I have pretty well covered by now, except for one outing, that is, we stopped one morning at Nambucca Heads Railway Station just to have a look. I assume it would have been on that day when we went to the Honey Place at Urunga:
When we stopped at that Honey Place, we were really on our way to Coffs Harbour. So we stopped at Nambucca Head Railway Station first.
nambucca heads railway station phone number
We went around the station for quite a while. It was early morning. The station master was not there yet. His shift started a bit later. While we looked around taking some photos, time passed quickly. And before we started leaving the station master already appeared for his shift and Peter could talk to him. It has been a while since Peter worked at a station. During the conversation with the Nambucca Heads station master, Peter mentioned that he used to work at Albion Park Station. However, this was a long, long time ago. It really has been a long time that Peter retired from his job.
South of Nambucca Heads is Macksville Railway Station. We did not have a look at that one. But coming back from Coffs Harbour in the afternoon we went as far as Macksville. We had a pleasant stay there near the river and sat in a cafe having some tea.
Now to Coffs Harbour. I have no pictures of it, that is we stayed there only in a shopping centre for the toilet facilities and a bit of lunch. A lot of building work was going on in the centre of town. Somehow Peter never found his way out to the coastal areas. After lunch we turned straight back onto the Highway going back in a southerly direction until we ended up in Macksville where we liked it very much.
It is a pity we did not take time to see a bit more of Coffs Harbour. I am sure near the sea there are some beautiful spots as you can see here:
On Thursday, the 21st of September, we were on our way back home. We stopped at Taree for lunch.
This was an excellent lunch near the Manning River.
Towards evening we arrived in Newcastle where we stayed at the Ibis Budget Hotel. Our granddaughter Lauren picked us up from our hotel to take us to a Pizza place for dinner. We were happy that we could see our granddaughter for a bit who was enormously busy at the time preparing for a competition.
We left very early the next morning and had a very good run home. We arrived home on Friday, the 22nd, at around midday. That was really a very fast drive home!
On Sunday we had at the club a belated birthday lunch with some friends and also some family.
After lunch we enjoyed Coffee and cake and later on some wine.
few days later it was the 3rd Birthday of Alexander.
Here are some more pictures I took in the BIG4 Nambucca Beach Holiday Park. It is just the right sort of park for family holidays.
This is what I wrote about our long walk along the beach at Nambucca Heads:
“Early in the morning we went for a walk along the beach in our toe shoes. Later on on that day we had a beautiful warm 30 Degrees Celsius. The beach was just lovely so early in the morning. We saw quite a few people walking along there, some with a dog or two. Several people started a conversation with us. One man said that he was from Melbourne. Another man had a dog that was part dingo. the man said the dog was very shy of people and was only one year old. Near where our camp was, there was a lot of driftwood.”
We actually reached this beach from a place called Swimming Creek Beach. I did show this in pictures here:
Japanese Drumming? This Van was parked next to our car for several days. So who were these Japanese people who were our neighbours? We never saw anybody going to that cabin next to ours. Why on earth was that van parked there? It was a mystery. Finally a woman appeared on the scene. She came out of the cabin and apparently was getting ready to leave the place. She looked Japanese to me. Eventually, I started talking to her. It turned out, she spoke perfect Australian. She explained that she was about to leave to go to some schools where she would give lessons in Japanese drumming. Yes, she was Japanese. Somehow, when she mentioned her husband, I asked her, whether he was Japanese too. She said, oh no, he’s a Newcastle bloke!
One morning we went from our holiday park for a short walk to Morrison Park. From there we could go down to the beach.
And I have still some more September photos that I have not published yet. Sometimes I think it is not right to publish so many photos. Maybe I should restrict myself to selecting only a few photos. Just to select a few photos so as to remember what I would like to remember! So, now here are some more photos from that lookout at Nambucca Heads:
Accumulated ‘stuff’ in our cabin
We were lucky that we were able to buy a bit of wine on a Sunday morning shopping spree.
This was the place to go to early in the morning. One mother waved to me from the solar heated pool. As soon as I joined her in the pool, she started a very friendly conversation. I turned out she was American but married to an Australian and living with her family in Brisbane. She said she liked New South Wales. Her children were somewhere around the pool too. She said they stayed in a cabin, but during their next holidays she would love to stay in one of the camping places of the park.
I had a look around. The park facilities are indeed great. Besides showers, toilets, laundry, there’s also a well equipped kitchen and barbecue places and playgrounds for the children. Early one morning I went around the park taking lots of pictures of all the facilities. So here I go again with heaps of pictures!
My birthday was one month ago! Only one more month and Baby Carter is going to be one. We are all invited to his first birthday party!
So, what did we do during the month of September this year? I am going to look at the pictures we took. Then it is very likely that I can still remember everything we did do.
Sunday, the 3rd of September, was Fathers’ Day in Australia. Peter had baked these cakes for Fathers’ Day:
Peter watching the Insiders’ Program on Fathers’ Day 2017
View from the window of the computer room
In August our son Martin came to see us and he did drive us to Newcastle as well as to Sussex Inlet:
Leaving tomorrow morning and driving up to the North Coast of New South Wales, we are going to stop for one night at Taree. On the way back home we are going to stop for one night at Newcastle.”
We went along the Pacific Highway to Taree via Newcastle. On the way to Taree, our first stop was at Mooney Mooney:
After having been sitting in the car for a couple of hours a little walk is very welcome!
Soon we unpacked a lot of things for some refreshments. We had a lot of room in our car for taking food and drinks along.
Before we reached Taree, we had another stop at a service centre on the Pacific Highway. Since we stopped there around lunch time. it was difficult to find a parking spot. Peter parked the car on the outskirts of the service centre. From that spot we were able to watch a great number of huge parked trucks. This service centre must be a very popular place for truck drivers who needed a break! We thought some of these trucks looked absolutely beautiful. They looked new, big and shiny. I could not resist to take a few pictures of them.
We’ve had this Touring Atlas for a very long time. It is a bit outdated. But I still like to look things up in it when we’re travelling.
We’ve had this Touring Atlas for a very long time. It is a bit outdated. But I still like to look things up in it when we’re travelling.
Peter enjoyed a 5 Dollar lunch at the Service Centre!
Late in the afternoon we stopped at this Motel.
We liked this motel straight away and booked a room there for one overnight stay.
We did not feel like going out for dinner that night. We still had sufficient food with us that we could eat. And of course we had tea and coffee making facilities in our motel room. So we went to bed early and were early the next morning on our way again. Our motel was a little bit outside of Taree. We knew that there was an ALDI Shopping Centre in Taree. We were planning on going there after breakfast. First of all we had to find a nice place where to have breakfast. It was not difficult to find the main shopping street in Taree. We chose a cafe called “Raw Sugar” for our breakfast. And we enjoyed a little walk along the main street in the early morning sun. We decided that Taree was quite a pleasant place. We do have the pictures to prove it!
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I still liked my little cup to use for coffee in the car. The friendly motel manager had handed us a little map to show us how to find the ALDI store. The motel was at Manning River Drive on the South side of Taree just before the bridge that crosses the Manning River. Crossing the bridge and going further up Commerce Street there was ALDI at a corner opposite the hospital. It was a huge, huge store. We got there everything we wanted to buy for our stay at Nambucca Heads. Except for wine. There were no alcoholic beverages available at that ALDI store. Alas, we had no map how to get out of Taree and onto the Pacific Highway. We could have just gone back across the bridge and found our way to the Highway from there. Instead we thought that there must be a way out to the Highway on the Northern end of town. Only somehow we missed the right turn off and ended up in a more westerly direction. Before we knew it, we were in Wingham where we did not want to be at all. So we just turned all the back and eventually did find the Pacific Highway to continue our trip towards Nambucca Heads.
This is the Manning River with the bridge in the background.
We stayed at the BIG4 Nambucca Beach Holiday Park for five nights. We arrived on a Saturday night. To find the Park turned out to be a bit problematic. But we actually did find the place before it got dark!
On Sunday we went shopping for fresh bread and some wine. Before we went to the main shopping street (a lot of shops were closed on that Sunday), we did stop at two different lookouts that had a lovely view towards the sea. But first here are a few pictures we took on Saturday soon after our arrival at the Holiday Park:
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Every time I pass this magnificent plant I am amazed about the beauty of nature. I am sure nobody planted this palm tree. It grew up all on its own in the middle of the bush.
This plant grows in a front garden of the neighbourhood. It very much caught my eye. This is why I took this picture.
And this is a recent picture from Lakelands Park with one of the soccer fields. I love walking along there, especially in the morning when the sun has just come up.
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