View of Yeppoon Main Beach from Meikleville Hill

Monthly Archives: December 2007

Big Machines and the Latest Roadworks News

Not much roadworks happening at the moment but I though I’d better give you an update anyway. Also, just up the road from our place, on the corner near the big bridge, is a piece of land that was sold earlier this year, presumably because the person who lived there didn’t want to be near the new road that is going in.

The person who bought it has since made some major changes, including renovating the house, installing a pool, clearing a big section of land near his house and allowing his kids to make the area at the back of the house (which used to be a maze of creeks and lantana) into a maze of quad bike tracks.

Anyway, I now know that he also owns an earthmoving business and is storing all the machines on the block of land that he cleared. They all have the same phone number on them. Below are some photos.

Roadworks #1
Some of the machines that he is storing. There must be at least 20 of them, including about 5 trucks.

Roadworks #2
This is the main thing that the roadworkers have been working on: the future bridge just near our place (not to be confused with the big bridge located about 1km in front of this picture). They spent ages putting on the concrete sides (seen on the far left), and then the spent even more time covering it with dirt.

Roadworks #3
A view from the top of the structure.

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Mint : Vegetable Photo Series

The sixth and last photo in the vegetable series contains some nice, refreshing mint leaves. Mint is an aromatic herb almost exclusively used for flavouring. It tastes very fresh and clean, a lot like artificial mints. More information can be found on the Wikipedia mint article. By the way, I think that the mint below is the garden type. There are actually about 25 species and many more varieties of mint. Of course, more can be found on the Wikipedia article.

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Chives : Vegetable Photo Series

The fifth photo in the vegetable series is a chive. Chives are actually a species of the onion family and you can find out more by going to the looking up the Wikipedia article on chives.

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Scallion : Vegetable Photo Series

The fourth photo in the vegetable series has the subject of one lone scallion. You can find out more by going to the article on scallions at Wikipedia. In case you’re wondering, yes Australians do call this plant the shallot but its proper name is a scallion.

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By the way, when you go to the shallot image on Contrasting Sharply you might notice that instead of the thick border around the image, you’ll now find a thinner one with some padding. Likewise on the home page, I’ve got rid of the intro text and big clunky borders. Go and have a look!

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