Last Monday I attended a staff development day in Jamberoo. There was creek running alongside the property. It was quite pleasant. It was simply relaxing to sit there and to watch the water flow down the creek.

A severe low pressure weather system during the days from the 8th June through to the 12th June brought heavy winds, flooding rains and big seas to NSW. On the 9th and 10th June Shao Ping and I drove to Wollongong Harbour and took a number of photographs of the heavy seas battering the coast. We walked across to the breakwater and took a number of images showing the waves crashing across the rock wall and soaking the spectators.

A severe low pressure weather system during the days from the 8th June through to the 12th June brought heavy winds, flooding rains and big seas to NSW. On the 9th and 10th June Shao Ping and I drove to Wollongong Harbour and took a number of photographs of the heavy seas battering the coast. We walked across to the breakwater and took a number of images showing the waves crashing across the rock wall and soaking the spectators.

The Southern Cross, originally uploaded by John Larkin.

The Southern Cross. This is one of the first constellations learnt by children in Australia. If you can find the Southern Cross in the night sky then you know your are looking towards the south. The vertical axis of this constellation points towards the South Celestial Pole. It is usually way up there with Orion and Scorpio in terms of the constellations initially picked up by kids in the Southern Hemisphere. This is of course before the advent of the Simpsons, Playstations and the Internet. I took some photographs of the night sky and, using Photoshop, managed to make the constellation a little more visible. Check out the rest of the story, complete with links to great astronomical images and maps of the southern sky, here.

Nan Tien Temple, originally uploaded by John Larkin.

Shao Ping and I visited the Nan Tien Temple with three friends recently. It is an island of culture and interest in an otherwise bleak landscape.