Great views from Bustard Bay Lookout at Seventeen Seventy in Queensland
This is the view you will get when you are up at the Bustard Bay Lookout at Seventeen Seventy.
The Bustard Bay Lookout is located in Joseph Banks Regional Park.
We were in Seventeen Seventy or 1770 for a few days camping at Captain Cook Holiday Village which is just out of Seventeen Seventy itself.
You can see what we got up to and where we stayed here
Also we went to Lady Musgrave Island for a day on a boat and you can read about that great day out here
Leaving Joseph Banks Conservation Park
We took a lil tour of the area while we waited to see if the next day's Great Barrier Reef were set. This is us leaving the Joseph Banks Conservation Park at Town of 1770 which I believe I posted a video of us hiking around earlier. I'm just so lazy at this video uploading thing, lol. It was really neat seeing the harbour area. When the tide is out there is a lot of extra beach... there is dozens of boats stranded on land, waiting for the tide. I guess this is why there is only one tour a day... only have enough time to get one boat out.
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We went for a small walk at Joseph Banks Conservation Park at Town of 1770. It's a really beautiful area. We were suppose to take a tour of the Great Barrier Reef the next day, but it was cancelled due to wind.
I thought it was funny how my camera picks up my breathing... makes me sound like I'm not gonna make it.
James Cook: Master of the Seven Seas
James Cook was a God-fearing Englishman who circumnavigated the globe, literally putting Australia, New Zealand and many other Pacific destinations on the map. Not many people realise the impact the Bible and Christian values had not just on James Cook but also on our society. Australia and New Zealand are the great nations they are today because of our Christian heritage. And if we’re wise, we will value and protect our Christian heritage so that future generations can enjoy the family values, benefits, prosperity and freedoms that Christianity brings.
Town of 1770 Loop Walk
1770 was a favorite stopover for us during our 2016 Winter Trip. From our caravan park the walk heads along the western side of the the peninsula through the town to the Capt Cook Memorial and then up to the lookout at the top of Round Hill before returning along the eastern side and a long beach walk before walking along a 4WD track that leads back to the van park. A brilliant 10km walk.
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Cider gum - Eucalyptus gunnii - Eucalypts - Young oval leaves
Cider gum in England - Eucalyptus gunnii - Eucalyptus young leaves - Eucalypts - Gum trees - Blágúmmítré - Ljágumviður - Eukalyptus - Mallees - Myrtaceae - Myrtle family - Eucalyptus Young oval leaves - has the bark coming off in long, thin pieces, but is still loosely attached in some places. They can be long ribbons, firmer strips, or twisted curls. The terms mallet and marlock are only applied to Western Australian eucalypts. A mallet is a tree with a single thin trunk with a steeply branching habit but lacks both a lignotuber and epicormic buds. E. astringens is an example of a mallet. A marlock is a shrub or small tree with a single, short trunk, that lacks a lignotuber and has spreading, densely leafy branches that often reach almost to the ground. E. platypus is an example of a marlock..
Plants in the genus Eucalyptus have bark that is either smooth, fibrous, hard or stringy, leaves with oil glands, and sepals and petals that are fused to form a cap or operculum over the stamens. The fruit is a woody capsule commonly referred to as a gumnut. Most species of Eucalyptus are native to Australia, and every state and territory has representative species. About three-quarters of Australian forests are eucalypt forests. Wildfire is a feature of the Australian landscape and many eucalypt species are adapted to fire, and resprout after fire or have seeds which survive fire See more:
Most eucalypts are not tolerant of severe cold. Eucalypts do well in a range of climates but are usually damaged by anything beyond a light frost of −5 °C the hardiest are the snow gums, such as Eucalyptus pauciflora, which is capable of withstanding cold and frost down to about −20 °C . Two subspecies, E. pauciflora subsp. niphophila and E. pauciflora subsp. debeuzevillei in particular are even hardier and can tolerate even quite severe winters. Several other species, especially from the high plateau and mountains of central Tasmania such as Eucalyptus coccifera, Eucalyptus subcrenulata and Eucalyptus gunnii,[27] have also produced extreme cold-hardy forms and it is seed procured from these genetically hardy strains that are planted for ornament in colder parts of the world.
It´s captain James Cook 1770 discovered Australia - and called it New Holland. In one harbor, the ship's naturalists found so many unusual and beautiful plants that they named it Botany Bay. Eight years later, a fleet of eleven English ships reached Botany Bay with 1,530 people, 736 of them convicts. This marked the establishment of England's most important prison camp of the nineteenth century, and the European settlement of a vast land called Australia. The actual discovery of the genus Eucalyptus is credited to the ship's botanist, Joseph Banks.
Það er talið að 95% skóga í Ástralíu séu byggðir upp af Bágúmmítrjám sem eru til í yfir 500 tegundum og er þeirra á meðal eitt hæðsta tré í heimi. Þekkt er að frumbyggjar Ástralíu tuggðu ræturnar til að svala vatnsþörf líkamans þegar ekkert annað var að fá en eins notuðu þeir tannín ríka kvoðuna úr trjánum til að súta skinn og leður. Blágúmmítré eru með mikla hnúðarót sem kölluð er lignotubers sem gerir trjánum kleyft að vaxa aftur eftir skógarbruna sem eru algengir í Ástralíu, ef þau eru hoggin niður eða skemmast í frosti og kelur þá byrjar nývöxturinn frá þessum hnúð.
Kóalabirnir eru eina dýrið sem hafa viðurværi sitt af þessaru plöntu og eru með sérstaka bakteríuflóru í maganum til að bjóta niður laufblöðin. Þau þurfa 5. kg af laufblöðum á dag og orkan dugar í 5. tíma og verða orkulaus og sofa í 19. tíma. Afkvæmin geta ekki melt laufblöðin og éta því saurinn úr mömmunni svo hægt og rólega meltingarfærin búi til réttu bakteríuflóruna til að ráða við að melta og vinna næringu úr laufblöðunum. Nánast litlaus gulbrún olía í plöntusafanum er eitruð við inntöku og má aldrei nota óþynnta á húð.
Blágúmmítré - Eucalyptus gunnii - sem kallað er Cider Gum á Ensku var eina tegund gúmmí trjáa sem flutt voru til Englands um miðja 19. öld og má sjá þau víða sem skrauttré í stærri görðum. Þau hafa dafnað mjög vel og þola allt að -15˚C gráði frost. Trén verða 30. m á hæð og 10. m á breidd með bleikbrúnan börk sem flagnar af svo yngri grárri börkur kemur í ljós og með silfurgræn kringlótt laufblöð sem þykja einkum falleg í blómaskreytingar. Laufblöðin taka breytingum í þroskaferli trésins en þau eru kringlótt á ungum greinum en ílöng á gömlum greinum. Tré ræktuð af fræi blómstra á þriðja ári fallegum hvítum blómum. Smáger brún fræin eru í lokuðum bollalaga fræhúsum og losa ekki út fræin nema veður sé heitt og þurrt.
Blágúmmítré hafa sannað gildi sitt í snyrtivöruheiminum. Margar tegundir af þessum trjám eru ræktuð til framleiðslu á eucalyptusolíu fyrir snyrtivörufyrirtæki sem nota hana í nuddkrem, rakspíra, ilmvötn og sápur.
Olían er eitruð við inntöku og ætti alltaf að nota hana útþynnta á húð.
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In Pursuit of Australia’s Murderous Flora Seminar
Slides and audio from a public talk about Australia's carnivorous plants, presented by Alastair Robinson at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne on 10 April 2019 (duration: 48 mins). SYNOPSIS: With an estimated 230 recognised species of carnivorous plants from 6 different genera and 3 different orders, and a further assemblage of proto-carnivorous species, Australia has the highest rates and diversity of plant carnivory on Earth. Alastair, who has studied these unusual plants across Malesia, Papua and Oceania, will provide an overview of the continent’s carnivorous flora, while addressing their ‘added value’—that is, not their mechanisms of carnivory, but the perhaps even more fascinating aspects of their biology that are accessory to the carnivorous syndrome, including unusual symbioses, novel infrageneric adaptive traits and their ecological value.
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In May, 1770, Sir Joseph Banks observed some Aboriginal activity at Burleigh Heads from the deck of the Endeavour. It would seem that the first inhabitants of the Burleigh area were the 5000 year old Gombemberri Tribe known as The Salt Water People. It is believed they lived in the area for thousands of years until around 1936 when they ceased holding their ceremonies there but many of the people remained at Burleigh Heads.
The first European landholder in the Burleigh area was Alfred William Compigne who lived near Beaudesert. In 1888, the first store and a post office were established in Burleigh Heads and a hotel followed shortly after with it become a welcome stop over for travelers on their long journey. Gradually restaurants and guest houses began springing up due to the public interest in bathing. But for many years Burleigh was just another seaside village on this part of the coast.
The first blocks of land started to be offered for sale during the First World War and a second release in 1919 with pick of the blocks being sold from around 10 pound on 1 pound deposit and 1 pound per month. Cars were also starting to become popular and road works were carried out to cope with a growing traffic problem. With more and more people settling in the area, local businesses started to increase and more shops, banks and hotels started to be built.
The first lifesaving patrols began on Burleigh Beach in the summer of 1918/1919 and Burleigh Heads Surf Lifesaving Club was established in 1921 and an equipment shed built in late 1922. By 1925, the previously outdoor picture theatre was fully enclosed and Anglican, Presbyterian, Methodist and Roman Catholic Church services were all held at Burleigh Heads. Around this time many sports clubs started to spring up and plans were afoot for a resort. The area went ahead in leaps about bounds and by 1950 the northern section was also subdivided although for many prior sand mining in the area had been extensive.
Burleigh has grown from its humble beginnings to a thriving seaside tourist centre and will continue to grow with progress of the entire tourist trade on the Gold Coast and surrounds.
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Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus /ˌjuːkəˈlɪptəs/ L'Heritier 1789 is a diverse genus of flowering trees and shrubs (including a distinct group with a multiple-stem mallee growth habit) in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia. There are more than 700 species of eucalyptus, mostly native to Australia, and a very small number are found in adjacent areas of New Guinea and Indonesia. One species, Eucalyptus deglupta, ranges as far north as the Philippines. Only fifteen species occur outside Australia, with just nine of these not occurring in Australia. Species of eucalyptus are cultivated widely in the tropical and temperate world, including the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, China and the Indian Subcontinent, though most species do not tolerate frost.
Eucalyptus is one of three similar genera that are commonly referred to as eucalypts, the others being Corymbia and Angophora. Many species, but far from all, are known as gum trees because they exude copious sap from any break in the bark (e.g., scribbly gum). The generic name is derived from the Greek words ευ (eu) well and κάλυπτος (kályptos) covered, referring to the operculum on the calyx that initially conceals the flower.
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European maritime exploration of Australia | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:20 2.1 Dutch discovery, exploration, and mapping of mainland Australia and surrounding islands
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The maritime European exploration of Australia consisted of several waves of white European seafarers that sailed the edges of the Australian continent. Dutch navigators were the first Europeans known to have explored and mapped the Australian coastline. The first documented encounter was that of Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in 1606. Dutch seafarers also visited the west and north coasts of the continent, as did French explorers.
The most famous expedition was that of Royal Navy Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook 164 years after Janszoon's sighting. After an assignment to make observations of the 1769 Venus Transit, Cook followed Admiralty instructions to explore the south Pacific for the reported Terra Australis and on 19 April 1770 sighted the south-eastern coast of Australia and became the first recorded European to explore the eastern coastline. Explorers by land and sea continued to survey the continent for some years after settlement.
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John Charles Frémont or Fremont (January 21, 1813 – July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, politician, and soldier who, in 1856, became the first candidate of the Republican Party for the office of President of the United States. During the 1840s, when he led five expeditions into the American West, that era's penny press and admiring historians accorded Frémont the sobriquet The Pathfinder.During the Mexican–American War, Frémont, a major in the U.S. Army, took control of California from the California Republic in 1846. Frémont was convicted in court-martial for mutiny and insubordination over a conflict of who was the rightful military governor of California. After his sentence was commuted and he was reinstated by President Polk, Frémont resigned from the Army. Frémont led a private fourth expedition, which cost ten lives, seeking a rail route over the mountains around the 38th parallel in the winter of 1849. Afterwards, Frémont settled in California at Monterey while buying cheap land in the Sierra foothills. When gold was found on his Mariposa ranch, Frémont became a wealthy man during the California Gold Rush, but he was soon bogged down with lawsuits over land claims, between the dispossession of various land owners during the Mexican–American War and the explosion of Forty-Niners immigrating during the Rush. These cases were settled by the U.S. Supreme Court allowing Frémont to keep his property. Frémont's fifth and final privately funded expedition, between 1853 and 1854, surveyed a route for a transcontinental railroad. Frémont became one of the first two U.S. senators elected from the new state of California in 1850. Frémont was the first presidential candidate of the new Republican Party, carrying most of the North. He lost the 1856 presidential election to Democrat James Buchanan when Know Nothings split the vote. Democrats warned that his election would lead to civil war.During the American Civil War, he was given command of Department of the West by President Abraham Lincoln. Although Frémont had successes during his brief tenure as Commander of the Western Armies, he ran his department autocratically, and made hasty decisions without consulting Washington D.C. or President Lincoln. After Frémont's emancipation edict that freed slaves in his district, he was relieved of his command by President Lincoln for insubordination. In 1861, Frémont was the first commanding Union general who recognized in Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant an iron will to fight and promoted him commander at the strategic base near Cairo, Illinois. Defeating the Confederates at Springfield, Frémont was the only Union General in the West to have a Union victory for 1861. After a brief service tenure in the Mountain Department in 1862, Frémont resided in New York, retiring from the Army in 1864. The same year Frémont was a presidential candidate for the Radical Democracy Party, but he resigned before the election. After the Civil War, Frémont's wealth declined after investing heavily and purchasing an unsuccessful Pacific Railroad in 1866, and lost much of his wealth during the Panic of 1873. Frémont served as Governor of Arizona from 1878 to 1881 appointed by President Rutherford B. Hayes. Frémont retired from politics and died destitute in New York City in 1890.
Historians portray Frémont as controversial, impetuous, and contradictory. Some scholars regard him as a military hero of significant accomplishment, while others view him as a failure who repeatedly defeated his own best purposes. The keys to Frémont's character and personality may lie in his being born illegitimately, his ambitious drive for success, self-justification, and passive-aggressive behavior. Frémont's published reports and maps produced from his explorations significantly contributed to massive American emigration overland into the West starting in the 1840s. In June 1846 ...
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The Vietnam War: Reasons for Failure - Why the U.S. Lost
In the post-war era, Americans struggled to absorb the lessons of the military intervention. About the book:
As General Maxwell Taylor, one of the principal architects of the war, noted, First, we didn't know ourselves. We thought that we were going into another Korean War, but this was a different country. Secondly, we didn't know our South Vietnamese allies... And we knew less about North Vietnam. Who was Ho Chi Minh? Nobody really knew. So, until we know the enemy and know our allies and know ourselves, we'd better keep out of this kind of dirty business. It's very dangerous.
Some have suggested that the responsibility for the ultimate failure of this policy [America's withdrawal from Vietnam] lies not with the men who fought, but with those in Congress... Alternatively, the official history of the United States Army noted that tactics have often seemed to exist apart from larger issues, strategies, and objectives. Yet in Vietnam the Army experienced tactical success and strategic failure... The...Vietnam War...legacy may be the lesson that unique historical, political, cultural, and social factors always impinge on the military...Success rests not only on military progress but on correctly analyzing the nature of the particular conflict, understanding the enemy's strategy, and assessing the strengths and weaknesses of allies. A new humility and a new sophistication may form the best parts of a complex heritage left to the Army by the long, bitter war in Vietnam.
U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger wrote in a secret memo to President Gerald Ford that in terms of military tactics, we cannot help draw the conclusion that our armed forces are not suited to this kind of war. Even the Special Forces who had been designed for it could not prevail. Even Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara concluded that the achievement of a military victory by U.S. forces in Vietnam was indeed a dangerous illusion.
Doubts surfaced as to the effectiveness of large-scale, sustained bombing. As Army Chief of Staff Harold Keith Johnson noted, if anything came out of Vietnam, it was that air power couldn't do the job. Even General William Westmoreland admitted that the bombing had been ineffective. As he remarked, I still doubt that the North Vietnamese would have relented.
The inability to bomb Hanoi to the bargaining table also illustrated another U.S. miscalculation. The North's leadership was composed of hardened communists who had been fighting for independence for thirty years. They had defeated the French, and their tenacity as both nationalists and communists was formidable. Ho Chi Minh is quoted as saying, You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours...But even at these odds you will lose and I will win.
The Vietnam War called into question the U.S. Army doctrine. Marine Corps General Victor H. Krulak heavily criticised Westmoreland's attrition strategy, calling it wasteful of American lives... with small likelihood of a successful outcome. In addition, doubts surfaced about the ability of the military to train foreign forces.
Between 1965 and 1975, the United States spent $111 billion on the war ($686 billion in FY2008 dollars). This resulted in a large federal budget deficit.
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam. James E. Westheider wrote that At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops. Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the President since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed, more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled. According to Dale Kueter, Sixty-one percent of those killed were age 21 or younger. Of those killed in combat, 86.3 percent were white, 12.5 percent were black and the remainder from other races. The youngest American KIA in the war was PFC Dan Bullock, who had falsified his birth certificate and enlisted in the US Marines at age 14 and who was killed in combat at age 15. Approximately 830,000 Vietnam veterans suffered symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. An estimated 125,000 Americans fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, and approximately 50,000 American servicemen deserted. In 1977, United States President Jimmy Carter granted a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all Vietnam-era draft dodgers. The Vietnam War POW/MIA issue, concerning the fate of U.S. service personnel listed as missing in action, persisted for many years after the war's conclusion.
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Western civilization traces its roots back to Europe and the Mediterranean. It is linked to the Roman Empire and with Medieval Western Christendom which emerged from the Middle Ages to experience such transformative episodes as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, scientific revolution, and the development of liberal democracy. The civilizations of Classical Greece and Ancient Rome are considered seminal periods in Western history; a few cultural contributions also emerged from the pagan peoples of pre-Christian Europe, such as the Celts and Germans, as well as some significant religious contributions derived from Judaism and Hellenistic Judaism stemming back to Second Temple Judea, Galilee, and the early Jewish diaspora; and some other Middle Eastern influences. Christianity and Roman Catholicism has played a prominent role in the shaping of Western civilization, which throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture. (There were Christians outside of the West, such as China, India, Russia, Byzantium and the Middle East). Western civilization has spread to produce the dominant cultures of modern Americas and Oceania, and has had immense global influence in recent centuries in many ways.
Following the 5th century Fall of Rome, Western Europe entered the Middle Ages, during which period the Catholic Church filled the power vacuum left in the West by the fall of the Western Roman Empire, while the Eastern Roman Empire (or Byzantine Empire) endured in the East for centuries, becoming a Hellenic Eastern contrast to the Latin West. By the 12th century, Western Europe was experiencing a flowering of art and learning, propelled by the construction of cathedrals and the establishment of medieval universities. Christian unity was shattered by the Reformation from the 16th century. A merchant class grew out of city states, initially in the Italian peninsula (see Italian city-states), and Europe experienced the Renaissance from the 14th to the 17th century, heralding an age of technological and artistic advance and ushering in the Age of Discovery which saw the rise of such global European Empires as those of Spain and Portugal.
The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th century. Under the influence of the Enlightenment, the Age of Revolution emerged from the United States and France as part of the transformation of the West into its industrialised, democratised modern form. The lands of North and South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand became first part of European Empires and then home to new Western nations, while Africa and Asia were largely carved up between Western powers. Laboratories of Western democracy were founded in Britain's colonies in Australasia from the mid-19th centuries, while South America largely created new autocracies. In the 20th century, absolute monarchy disappeared from Europe, and despite episodes of Fascism and Communism, by the close of the century, virtually all of Europe was electing its leaders democratically. Most Western nations were heavily involved in the First and Second World Wars and protracted Cold War. World War II saw Fascism defeated in Europe, and the emergence of the United States and Soviet Union as rival global powers and a new East-West political contrast.
Other than in Russia, the European Empires disintegrated after World War II and civil rights movements and widescale multi-ethnic, multi-faith migrations to Europe, the Americas and Oceania lowered the earlier predominance of ethnic Europeans in Western culture. European nations moved towards greater economic and political co-operation through the European Union. The Cold War ended around 1990 with the collapse of Soviet imposed Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. In the 21st century, the Western World retains significant global economic power and influ ...
Napoleon III
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was the first President of the French Second Republic and, as Napoleon III, the Emperor of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I. He was the first President of France to be elected by a direct popular vote. However, when he was blocked by the Constitution and Parliament from running for a second term, he organized a coup d'état in 1851, and then took the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation.
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