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Another night time drive.

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It was a warm balmy night and I didn't feel like sleeping, so I decided to go for a drive instead. No real destination in mind but thought I'd head over to the York Peninsula and see if I could get a nice sunrise picture. That's something you can't get in Adelaide, there's a line of hills to the east that prevent you seeing the sunrise. Well before dawn I was all the way down the bottom of the peninsula in a little town called Edithburgh. It's a pretty little town and too far out of the way for most tourists so it was nice and peaceful. I spent a few hours just watching the stars and listening to gentle ocean waves. I got to see a few meteorites or bits of space junk burning up in the atmosphere too.

Every dawn is a new beginning.

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I also like to see buildings lit up by dawn light.

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I really liked the draught horse sculpture:

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Looking down the main street of a typical country town.

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After that I started driving back towards home. I got to Adrossan just before the bakery opened. Pies are one of my favourite foods and fresh from the oven first thing in the morning is when they're at their absolute best. A standard Aussie meat pie is a decent meal for a full sized adult but once I walked in there the smells got to me, a plain beef pie, a pepper steak pie, and a kitchener bun.

The pies are absolutely delicious. No chemicals and additives here, you can taste the flour and the butter in the pastry and the meat is so fresh and tender. It's the first time I've been in this bakery in nearly 50 years but it's still as good as it always was.

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Space junk moves at about the speed of satellites unless it is returning from another planet. Meteors are much faster.
 
Actually i have other thoughts, but i don't know. ... like i'm inable to swim. My physics isn't best.
 
Everything in space is basically falling around everything else. Usually, there's so much space and so little stuff that it only falls a little bit on the way by something else. If the relative speeds and distances are just right, they may get locked into an orbit. If the aim is really close to perfect, they collide. A meteor is Earth colliding with a rock, and the rock burning in the atmosphere from the heat of friction.
 
If there is no gravity in space and no "up" or "down", then how do meteors "fall"?

Perhaps like asteroids, where their velocity increases or decreases due to gravitational interactions with planets or other bodies.
 
It was a warm balmy night and I didn't feel like sleeping, so I decided to go for a drive instead. No real destination in mind but thought I'd head over to the York Peninsula and see if I could get a nice sunrise picture. That's something you can't get in Adelaide, there's a line of hills to the east that prevent you seeing the sunrise. Well before dawn I was all the way down the bottom of the peninsula in a little town called Edithburgh. It's a pretty little town and too far out of the way for most tourists so it was nice and peaceful. I spent a few hours just watching the stars and listening to gentle ocean waves. I got to see a few meteorites or bits of space junk burning up in the atmosphere too.

Every dawn is a new beginning.

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I also like to see buildings lit up by dawn light.

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I really liked the draught horse sculpture:

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Looking down the main street of a typical country town.

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After that I started driving back towards home. I got to Adrossan just before the bakery opened. Pies are one of my favourite foods and fresh from the oven first thing in the morning is when they're at their absolute best. A standard Aussie meat pie is a decent meal for a full sized adult but once I walked in there the smells got to me, a plain beef pie, a pepper steak pie, and a kitchener bun.

The pies are absolutely delicious. No chemicals and additives here, you can taste the flour and the butter in the pastry and the meat is so fresh and tender. It's the first time I've been in this bakery in nearly 50 years but it's still as good as it always was.

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That was a great little outing and great photos. York peninsula is one of the few places that I haven’t been in SA. It's now on my bucket list, thanks.
 
It was a warm balmy night and I didn't feel like sleeping, so I decided to go for a drive instead. No real destination in mind but thought I'd head over to the York Peninsula and see if I could get a nice sunrise picture. That's something you can't get in Adelaide, there's a line of hills to the east that prevent you seeing the sunrise. Well before dawn I was all the way down the bottom of the peninsula in a little town called Edithburgh. It's a pretty little town and too far out of the way for most tourists so it was nice and peaceful. I spent a few hours just watching the stars and listening to gentle ocean waves. I got to see a few meteorites or bits of space junk burning up in the atmosphere too.

Every dawn is a new beginning.

View attachment 139016

I also like to see buildings lit up by dawn light.

View attachment 139017

View attachment 139018

I really liked the draught horse sculpture:

View attachment 139019

Looking down the main street of a typical country town.

View attachment 139020

After that I started driving back towards home. I got to Adrossan just before the bakery opened. Pies are one of my favourite foods and fresh from the oven first thing in the morning is when they're at their absolute best. A standard Aussie meat pie is a decent meal for a full sized adult but once I walked in there the smells got to me, a plain beef pie, a pepper steak pie, and a kitchener bun.

The pies are absolutely delicious. No chemicals and additives here, you can taste the flour and the butter in the pastry and the meat is so fresh and tender. It's the first time I've been in this bakery in nearly 50 years but it's still as good as it always was.

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Thanks for this. In hospital at the moment. You lifted my mood. 🙏
 
@Outdated, so I have to ask, where are all the people and traffic? Around here they would call that a "ghost town". Lovely photos. I wish I was there and not here. :)
 
Thanks for this. In hospital at the moment. You lifted my mood. 🙏
Hope you're back on the mend again soon.

That was a great little outing and great photos. York peninsula is one of the few places that I haven’t been in SA. It's now on my bucket list, thanks.
100 years ago it was all about wheat and wool but these days it's mostly just wheat. Lots of little towns along the coast all had their own jetties and silos for shipping, these days they truck all the grain to just a few ports set up for bulk grain carriers and the little towns are usually very quiet except for tourists. A really nice part of the country but it can get cold in winter.

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@Outdated, so I have to ask, where are all the people and traffic? Around here they would call that a "ghost town". Lovely photos. I wish I was there and not here. :)
I work pretty hard to get pictures with no people in them. :)

Those pics were all taken at dawn, and it's summer here so dawn was at 5:30 in the morning. No people is another reason it's my favourite time of the day. Even in the middle of the day though towns in that region are very quiet compared to what people in other countries would imagine, we're a sparsely populated country and we don't like living in each other's back pockets.

I just looked up some stats for you that might give you an idea of scales.

York Peninsula covers an area of 8900 square Kilomteres - that's just a little bigger than the state of Delaware.
York Peninsula has a population of 25,000 people, Delaware has over 1 million people.

Edithburgh satellite view:
Google Maps
 
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GOOD.

Is Canada taking applications for citizenship, by the way?

I work pretty hard to get pictures with no people in them. :)

Those pics were all taken at dawn, and it's summer here so dawn was at 5:30 in the morning. No people is another reason it's my favourite time of the day. Even in the middle of the day though towns in that region are very quiet compared to what people in other countries would imagine, we're a sparsely populated country and we don't like living in each other's back pockets.

I just looked up some stats for you that might give you an idea of scales.

York Peninsula covers an area of 8900 square Kilomteres - that's just a little bigger than the state of Delaware.
York Peninsula has a population of 25,000 people, Delaware has over 1 million people.

Edithburgh satellite view:
Google Maps

In the area east of Calgary on the prairies, most of the area has very little population density, within one hour east of the city I can easily be in the middle of nowhere... Most towns are tiny, and there aren't many of them... Very peaceful

This is a scene typical of many small towns on the prairies, quiet main streets

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In the area east of Calgary on the prairies, most of the area has very little population density, within one hour east of the city I can easily be in the middle of nowhere... Most towns are tiny, and there aren't many of them... Very peaceful
Australia and Canada seem to have a lot of similarities, until it comes to climate. I live in Adelaide which is one of our capital cities, we have self governing states, not provinces. As I drive north there's about 300 Km of intense farming, mostly wheat and sheep, then there's.... nothing.

My state of South Australia is the same area as France, Germany, The Netherlands and Belgium combined. It has a population of 1.8 million people, 1.4 million of them live in Adelaide so the rest of the state is one of the most sparsely populated places on the planet.
 
Australia and Canada seem to have a lot of similarities, until it comes to climate. I live in Adelaide which is one of our capital cities, we have self governing states, not provinces. As I drive north there's about 300 Km of intense farming, mostly wheat and sheep, then there's.... nothing.

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Yes... Most of Canada's population is in certain regions, and most of our land area is sparsely populated, and we do get cold winters as well :rolleyes:
 

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