Yeppoon information, written by a 15 year old local

This morning I was hanging around at the front gate to see if anything interesting was happening with the roadworks (I’ll be writing more about that soon) that are happening just near our place. Anyway, along came this grader who started to rip off the top layer of grass on the side of the road. Unknown to him (and me) there was water flowing where he was grading. The grader sank into the soft dirt and when the operator realised he tried to reverse out of it.

Spinning the wheels just made the matter worse, Read the rest of this entry »

I had started converting the “A Study in Scarlet” last year from plain text files to a stylized XHTML file, but it was only in the last few days that I decided to speed up the process and finish the job. And the result is a complete story by arthur Conan Doyle: A Study in Scarlet.

This story is the first in the Sherlock Holmes series, and it documents Dr. Watson’s first meeting with Sherlock Holmes. The story includes a mix of the LDS (Latter Day Saints), a man bent on revenge and of course, Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson.

Enjoy reading it at briterwebdesign.com/blog/misc/A_Study_In_Scarlet.html. I must warn you that the page is 254KB in size, although that’s not going to worry anyone, is it?

For our picnic location this week we chose the Homestead at Rydges, mostly because we wanted to see how the recent 3 inches (approximately) of rain had affected the wetlands. So, as soon as the car had stopped we raced across to the water-tower to see the wetlands. I was a bit disappointed because there hadn’t been enough rain to cover all the wetlands. It was a big improvement over the previous situation, however. See below for photos of the wetlands and water-tower.

Once lunch was finished, we drove the car out and parked beside the road, because whenever we go to the Homestead the walk to Rydges must be done too. On the way I saw two orange seedpods, which I thought would make a fantastic Contrasting Sharply™ photo. However, a photo that I had taken the day before of a dandelion trumped them. Below you can see the orange seedpods.

[tags]Rydges, Homestead, water, wetlands, seedpods, tower[/tags]