ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
Lake Eyre last filled in 2011 so I can imagine it was still wet underneath. Apparently birds flock in from hundreds of miles away to breed when it has water.

There is a Lake Eyre Yacht Club: At this stage there is about a 30% chance of a regatta in 2015.  Even if there is a wind and with the shallow bottom, they apparently don't get much in the way of waves because the salinity makes the water pretty viscous.

If you hung the plane upside down the sling would stay taught. 

 haresfur wrote: 
I had to look up Lake Eyre, it's a salt flat like Bonneville... I know Bonneville area has the same sort of unforgiving muck under the hard crust.

But yeah the wings. Seems like they would have thought of that, or hung it backwards or something... 

Bogged plane at Lake Eyre a monument to bad day in the outback

 haresfur wrote: 
This is the thread you're looking for.

Worth a repost over there.  Gave me the willies.  Could be what it takes to get me to finally get there and hang em up.

The wife finally quit after her back surgery in July.  

Since I can't find the quit-smoking thread:

Australia put cigarettes in standardized packs with graphic labels — and they’re working

Melbourne Cup day was yesterday and it is a big deal in Oz. About 100,000 people go to see and be seen and to get piss drunk. Some people actually watch the race. Afterwards the area is covered with an impressive amount of trash and passed-out white trash. It's a public holiday in most of Victoria (we get Bendigo Cup day off instead).  Around the rest of the country work often stops so people can watch the race.
I'm not really interested in fashion but I confess to enjoying the creativity of the women getting 'all frocked up'. I'm only interested from an artistic viewpoint, really. 

John Pilger - Breaking Australia's Silence (Festival of Dangerous Ideas)

The Australian senator for the Motoring Enthusiast Party, knows how to stay on message for his constituency. 

'We can't all hop on cows and ride into town': Ricky Muir takes aim at Joe Hockey over 'poor people don't drive' comments

Your pictures: Rescuers free beached whale

Now if Sea World could do the same with their own captive/exploited whales...

NAIDOC (National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee) Week is celebrating indigenous military service this year.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 
It's a footbridge across the Yarra River in Melbourne.  They built a bar around the piling under the bridge in the middle of the river.  Unfortunately the river is flooding it out.  The TV news is loving it. 

The fancy building in the background is the Flinders Street train station. 

 haresfur wrote: 
I can't tell what we're looking at.

Maybe building a bar under the bridge to bring in the troll traffic wasn't such a great idea.

Another great Pilger film/documentary...

 haresfur wrote: 
is this some sort of trap for unsuspecting kiwis?
Great comments

More Than 300 Sharks In Australia Are Now On Twitter

 haresfur wrote: 

Hope non-FB people can see this: