I expect to see you guys planting the Australian flag on this thing: "Long-lost continent of Argoland found after 155M-year disappearance".
Update In Australia, even the birds are dangerous.
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I expect to see you guys planting the Australian flag on this thing: "Long-lost continent of Argoland found after 155M-year disappearance".
Update In Australia, even the birds are dangerous.
Jeebus, can't a cassowary get some privacy when taking a bath?
ReplyDeleteNow, if Kalifornia would have the same fate as Argoland …. Much faster, of course.
ReplyDeleteThat Cassowary is up north in the tropics. I'd only see one in a zoo.
ReplyDeleteOn my 2009 India odyssey I was asked 'What are you Australians doing here?' by a young German and I said 'This is our backyard mate'.
We used to administer Papua New Guinea until we gave them independence in 1975, also Fiji. This all made sense when we were British who 'ruled the seas', and China was a reclusive basket-case.
SE Asia - you may not recall that around the same time we were all in the Vietnam war, Australian troops were dealing with the post-colonial chaos in Malaya (Malayan Emergency). Histories say it ended in 1960 but I know a conscript who was there around 1970.
Been there, done that. Our current Deputy PM Penny Wong is Malaysian, often left in charge while her boss galavants around enjoying perks.
Oh, that was the '2nd Malayan Emergency' which corresponded with the Vietnam War:
ReplyDeletehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_insurgency_in_Malaysia_(1968-1989)
Right now we need a leader with vision to take us into the 21st century, but instead we just get navel-gazers, and bread and circuses for the masses.
Post-imperial malaise, as the remnants of the British Empire stumble into some kind of sunset.
While I'm hogging the comments I may as well make it interesting. That German tourist and I were on a public ferry travelling along the Kerala backwaters to Alleppey where I got a train to Cochin, all old Portuguese places later seized by the Dutch and then the British.
ReplyDeleteThat coast was the centre of the ancient spice trade, where ships from Egypt and even Rome would land with the monsoon winds, and then take the reverse winds back west a few months later.
Now China is trying to claim all this as part of 'the Silk Road', as if silk was the main commodity, when it was always spices and other southern Asia luxuries (pet monkeys!). Of course Chinese merchants were there, but so were Armenians and all sorts. And the main traders were Arabs - hence the arrival of Jews sometime after the fall of Jerusalem, and then Christians the same way.
There was no 'Silk Road'. Arabs themselves learned to make silk a few centuries after it began to come from China. It's all just 'belt and road' propaganda.
Also:
'There was no “Silk Road”, there were no “Silk Roads”. What existed “between East and West” was a large, major world region, Central Eurasia, which had a complex economy of its own, including its urbanised core, Central Asia.'
https://chinaandgreece.com/13476/
Paco do I have an opportunity for you!
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Um, I'll have to check our overseas investment budget, Mick. But meantime, it sounds like you all might need some continent insurance, with the break-and-drift special coverage rider. I'll be glad to send you a quote.
ReplyDeleteIf you have incontinent insurance I am definitlely interested.
ReplyDeleteMaybe we can utilise submarine Cassowaries to defend our coastline Mick.
ReplyDeleteNo problem, Mick. We can underwrite a personal property floater for you.
ReplyDeleteHey Paco and Bruce I know this post is getting old but all this talk of cassowaries and floaters took me back to 2018 when I was heading to Cape York in a convoy of four wheel drive vehicles.
ReplyDeleteWe were in the beautiful Daintree Rain Forrest and travelling on the fairly remote Bloomfield Track.
I had gone for the long solo walk with a shovel and toilet roll and was squatted, pants down, which as we all know is a very vulnerable situation.
I looked up and not 10 metres away was a very confused looking cassowary. These large birds have been known to kill people by headbutting them with that club like bulge on their heads.
Anyway I played most of my football career as a tighthead rugby prop, specialising in headbutting the opposing team's frontrow and the way I told it back at camp was the bird sized me up and thought better of it. More probably though it walked off in total disgust.
It is the only cassowary I have ever seen in the wild and they are beautiful creatures.
Good story Mick.
ReplyDeleteOne thing I learned from the Tamils is always take your dog with you to guard your rear when you go into the bush to squat. Leopards attack from behind over there. I used to think it was cute how the old Tamil men took their dogs for a walk up the hill every afternoon...
Man's best friend.