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Bolt Hole, Dunsborough-Yallingup, Western Australia

Locality: Dunsborough, Western Australia

Address: Quedjinup Rd & Bina Pl Dunsborough, WA, Australia

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21.01.2022 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY... JAN 26 ALTZAR: Happy Australia Day to my many friends Down Under! (see The Bolt Hole - https://www.facebook.com/BoltHoleWA/) TOP IMAGE: Sydney's famous Circular Quay - then and now. ... 1788 Australia Day On January 26, 1788, Captain Arthur Phillip guides a fleet of 11 British ships carrying convicts to the colony of New South Wales, effectively founding Australia. After overcoming a period of hardship, the fledgling colony began to celebrate the anniversary of this date with great fanfare. Australia, once known as New South Wales, was originally planned as a penal colony. In October 1786, the British government appointed Arthur Phillip captain of the HMS Sirius, and commissioned him to establish an agricultural work camp there for British convicts. With little idea of what he could expect from the mysterious and distant land, Phillip had great difficulty assembling the fleet that was to make the journey. His requests for more experienced farmers to assist the penal colony were repeatedly denied, and he was both poorly funded and outfitted. Nonetheless, accompanied by a small contingent of Marines and other officers, Phillip led his 1,000-strong party, of whom more than 700 were convicts, around Africa to the eastern side of Australia. In all, the voyage lasted eight months, claiming the deaths of some 30 men. The first years of settlement were nearly disastrous. Cursed with poor soil, an unfamiliar climate and workers who were ignorant of farming, Phillip had great difficulty keeping the men alive. The colony was on the verge of outright starvation for several years, and the marines sent to keep order were not up to the task. Phillip, who proved to be a tough but fair-minded leader, persevered by appointing convicts to positions of responsibility and oversight. Floggings and hangings were commonplace, but so was egalitarianism. As Phillip said before leaving England: In a new country there will be no slavery and hence no slaves. Though Phillip returned to England in 1792, the colony became prosperous by the turn of the 19th century. Feeling a new sense of patriotism, the men began to rally around January 26 as their founding day. Historian Manning Clarke noted that in 1808 the men observed the anniversary of the foundation of the colony with drinking and merriment. Finally, in 1818, January 26 became an official holiday, marking the 30th anniversary of British settlement in Australia. And, as Australia became a sovereign nation, it became the national holiday known as Australia Day. Today, Australia Day serves both as a day of celebration for the founding of the white British settlement, and as a day of mourning for the Aborigines who were slowly dispossessed of their land as white colonization spread across the continent. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/australia-day

19.01.2022 FROM OUR AUSTRALIAN TRAVELOGUES (cont'd) AUSTRALIA 2015: EPILOGUE MARCH 16, 2015 by ALTZAR...Continue reading

18.01.2022 ELIZABETH TEACHING HULA TO ABORIGINES Sydney, Feb 24, 2015 While walking along Circular Quay toward the Sydney Opera House, we heard a sound of music.... That’s didgeridoo, I said excitedly. I had previously told Elizabeth that on my earlier trips to Sydney , I would come across some Aborigine didgeridoo players here. Only this time, it was a whole family performing. Soon, we joined in - Elizabeth with her Hula moves, me with the camera recording it all. Eventually, Elizabeth tried to teach the Aborigines the Hula swing. Which they quickly picked up. I have it all on a video, too: https://youtu.be/vzFEkPafqw0

18.01.2022 FROM OUR AUSTRALIAN TRAVELOGUES SYDNEY THEN AND NOW: CITY SKYLINE 1985-2015 MARCH 14, 2015 by ALTZAR... As we were sailing around the Sydney Harbor today, I remembered a painting, a drawing actually, I bought from an 80-year old artist in front of the Opera House. He drew the city skyline with the Opera House in the forefront. The year was 1985. The artist, E.G. Twist, signed and dated his artwork as ’85. So during our boat ride, I kept taking various photos of the city skyline now, 30 years later, intending to compare them with that old drawing when we get back home. As it turned out, I never quite got the right angle. But with the help of the Photoshop highlights, you will get a picture of the tremendous changes Sydney has undergone during the last three decades. http://wp.me/p3R16m-1Nw

16.01.2022 ONCE IN A BLUE MOON A friend from Canada sent me this fascinating time-lapse video. On July 31st 2015 , this beautiful rise of the Full Blue Moon was captured 2 miles away from Cape Byron Lighthouse, on Belongil Beach, Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia. The piece of land and lighthouse at Byron Bay is the most easterly point of the Australian Mainland, and therefore is the first place in Australia to watch the full moon rise.... This video is made up of 1038 frames and slowed down to as close to real time as possible. The photographer (Luke Taylor) had been working on perfecting this type of time lapse for over a year after seeing the work of his favorite photographer Mark Gee. It is a majestic time-lapse; everything about it is just perfect, and it's a photography clinic for anyone interested in taking time-lapse. Watch for the bat to fly across the moon. https://player.vimeo.com/video/137218768 ALTZAR: I replied to my Canadian friend that it was interesting that Luke Taylor, the author of this video, chose the title "Once in a Blue Moon" - which was also the headlined of my story about the Blue Moon on Jan 31, 1999 over Meelup Beach in Western Australia - on the opposite side of the Australian continent. http://www.truthinmedia.org/Vignettes/Meelup.html

15.01.2022 FROM OUR AUSTRALIAN TRAVELOGUES (cont'd) SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE: ICONIC BUILDING OF THE 20TH CENTURY [ESSAY] MARCH 14, 2015 by ALTZAR... Feb 25 SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE TOUR INSPIRES AN ESSAY ON ICONIC BUILDINGS OVER THE LAST FIVE CENTURIES [essay] Guess the rain we were supposed to get yesterday arrived in Sydney today, Feb 25. The weather was positively miserable. We used our umbrella for the first time as we walked slowly from our hotel toward the Sydney Opera House. We had two dates there today. At noon, a tour of the entire building. And then at 7;30 PM, the long-awaited performance of Madam Butterfly at the opera hall (the smaller of two large concert halls). At some point during a very informative tour, I realized we were standing at an early example of a re-fusion of arts and sciences. IMG_3263 Iconic building of the 20th century, our guide said at one point. Wow, I muttered to myself. What a perfect caption. Every century left its mark in human memory. If I said, 19th century, for example, what image would come to your mind? READ MORE... to find out more about other iconic buildings around the world in the last five centuries. http://wp.me/p3R16m-1Nr

14.01.2022 FROM OUR AUSTRALIAN TRAVELOGUES (cont'd) EXPLORING SYDNEY BY BOAT AND ON FOOT MARCH 13, 2015 ALTZAR... Feb 24 EXPLORING SYDNEY BY BOAT AND ON FOOT Our second day in Sydney started with a delightful breakfast/lunch with a friend who traveled for an hour on a train from her home to meet us at Darling Harbor. All three of us thoroughly enjoyed the conversation and the food. Afterward, Elizabeth and I went for a walk to the Darling Harbor bridge. Sydney meteorologists called for a 90% chance of rain. Even as of 8:30 this morning when I woke up. Indeed, it did rain a little at the time. But by the time I finished my first flat white and asked the Spirit to keep the rain away from Sydney the rain had stopped. And then a gradual clearing followed. HARBOR SHOWBOAT CRUISE See more... including a video of Elizabeth teaching Hula to the Aborigines at Circular Quay. http://wp.me/p3R16m-1Mv

12.01.2022 AUSTRALIA 2015: TABLE OF CONTENTS And now, for those of you who may have missed some of the travelogues, here's a Table of Contents page for the entire trip: http://wp.me/p3R16m-1yE

12.01.2022 Happy Australia Day to my Aussie friends! (celebrated on Jan 26, which is already now in Australia) The day marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British Ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales.... PHOTO: Yours truly at the Bolt Hole, Western Australia, on this day 17 years ago. (https://www.facebook.com/BoltHoleWA)

07.01.2022 FROM OUR AUSTRALIAN TRAVELOGUES (cont'd) ELEPHANT DANCE, MENAGE A TROIS IN LIONS DEN, AND MUCH MORE MARCH 15, 2015 by ALTZAR... Feb 26 SYDNEY ZOO: OUR WARM DOWN AFTER MADAM BUTTERFLY AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE How do you come down emotionally after completing a marathon? I should ask my Aussie friend Andrew that question. He is an accomplished world-class marathoner. I don’t know what he does after a big race. But I would guess that he does not spend the next day in bed. Probably goes out for a little run. I am no marathoner. But in swimming, we used call that a warm down. That’s what you do an exhausting race. You do a few laps just to loosen up come down emotionally before you shower and dress. Sydney Zoo: Our Warm Down after the Opera That’s how Elizabeth and I felt the morning after that high we experienced on Feb 25 during the Madam Butterfly performance at the Sydney Opera House. So what did we do? We went to the zoo. On our last day in Sydney, we walked down to the Circular Quay from our Darling Harbour hotel, and took a ferry to the Taronga Zoo. We thought it would be a marvelous way to come down emotionally from the high the Madam Butterfly experience represented the night before. But first, we had a surprise. READ MORE... http://wp.me/p3R16m-1OM

06.01.2022 ON THIS DAY TWO YEARS AGO... Elizabeth and I took off on a trip Down Under - her first and my homecoming to Western Australia.

05.01.2022 AN AUSSIE TIGER TALE: WHEN YOU CATCH A TIGER BY THE TAIL... JUNE 16, 2015 by ALTZAR http://wp.me/p3R16m-25E... WHEN YOU CATCH A TIGER BY THE TAIL A smiling young lady from Niger, Once went for a ride on a tiger, They returned from the ride, With a smile on the face of the tiger, and the young lady inside. (One of the few poems I recall from my childhood) AUSTRALIA 2015 BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF A LONG-AGO ENCOUNTER WITH WESTERN TIGER SNAKE A few months ago, Elizabeth and I came back to Maui from an amazing trip to Australia. For me, it was a return to Paradise that I once called my home. For Elizabeth, it was her first trip to the land Down Under. And what a memorable experience it was! (see AUSTRALIA 2015 http://wp.me/p3R16m-1yE). One day, as we were driving down Commonage Rd near Dunsborough, Western Australia, I had a flashback. See that driveway over there, I said to Elizabeth. That’s where an old friend of mine used to live. At the end of that driveway, he once encountered a tiger. A tiger? Elizabeth repeated sounding incredulous. Well, an Aussie tiger, I grinned. A 10-ft tiger snake. Yikes! During the rest of our drive to Dunsborough, I recounted for Elizabeth the tale that Peter, my former neighbor, shared with me almost two decades ago. READ MORE... http://wp.me/p3R16m-25E

02.01.2022 FROM OUR AUSTRALIAN TRAVELOGUES (cont'd) MADAM BUTTERFLY AT SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE MARCH 14, 2015 by ALTZAR... Feb 25 AN EVENING AT THE OPERA TO CHERiSH FOREVER Words cannot adequately describe the experience Elizabeth and I had this evening at the Sydney Opera House. Fabulous, amazing. incredible might be some of the adjectives about tonight’s performance of Madam Butterfly. Suffice it to say that both of us teared up at the end. This is tops them all, Elizabeth said afterward, answering my question where she would rank this evening’s opera. Here are some pictures of us taken beforehand at a cocktail party at the top floor with a truly amazing view. We also met and befriended here a family from Scotland whose daughter is now a resident of Sydney. It was a delightful prelude to an outstanding evening at the opera. http://wp.me/p3R16m-1Oy