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Taken with my iPhone, on a Wintry but very sunny morning, last Saturday 25th June, along the Centenary trail running alongside the Murrumbidgee gorge beside the Bullen range.
So, please forgive the blurring, it was still only 2C, sans gloves, and very glarey.
This would be the biggest ant's nest I have ever seen. It is at least 20 metres long and up to 5m wide.
Memories were triggered. I went to sleep once nearly on a bull-ant's nest, back in the 1970s when I was a platoon sgt, and the battalion had harboured in the dusk.
Pltn sgts don't get to put up their half-shelter until lots of other jobs are done:- roster for sentry duties for each of 3 GPMGs, siting each GPMG (my looie was crap at it), distributing rations, and water.
Then you get to did yr own shell-scrape and then put up yr hootchie, in the pitch black.
I remember waking up in hospital with a mask and PAPump, and a gorgeous mature nurse. Had thought my difficulty breathing and the chopper noises were a nightmare! After that everyone in the Bn knew who Beetle Bailey was.
Ants and wasps are cousins.
;-)!!!
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 06/28/16 06/28/16 06/28/16Follow Ups:
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T'other end to the North almost peters out where my friend Michael Roach's shadow is, Mike's in his late seventies and way fitter than me!Most of the path*? - the 10Ks of it that we walked - is dark and damp. Damp due to recent heavy rains over 3 weeks - but within cold / dark 'dry-schlerophyl forest', bark, leaves, twigs, branches and fallen trunks of trees aka storm debris, over clay and granite sands, plus mosses and lichens.
*Long steep ups and downs, and quite deep steps in places - making uphill tiring and downhill a real trial.
This walk is a demanding one and was not attended by our group - which Mike co-ordinates - after that 1st wk of rain. We needed to check it out and no-one else would volunteer to go with Mike, so 'the Good Soldier Schweik' did! And was nackered after the just 4 hrs it took to do the 5k out and 5k back on the steep and high-up bit mentioned on the URL click-on above, under Walking Trails tab! This should have taken us closer to 6 or 7 hrs as it's the tough bit, done twice .....
Silly me?!
Today I attended my third outpatient post-surgery exercise-physiology session of one hr by two per week. The EP's (girls) all made me go easy on myself, once they asked why I was sore - LOL!
At least four out of five are babes and all the other patients are older ladies. One of whom told me me I had a nice bum!
Maybe I don't have too much to do!?
The program is designed to get my core and pelvic floor back 'on' like they should be. Like they used to be when I was in the h'army.
And, despite being quite wet and hot at the end my BP was just 144/88.
End of Timbo segue.
Warmest
Tim Bailey
Skeptical Measurer & Audio Scrounger
Edits: 06/28/16
watch out! That's Australia, not the pussy USA :)
These jack jumper ants in Tasmania kill somebody approx every 4 years. More fatalities than from sharks and snakes!
Cheers,
John K
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