In memory of my father

 

My dad has died

 

I honour him

 

By committing his memory

 

To the virtual world

(where nothing is ever lost)

When computers were for sissies

Saw this Gemini spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Centre.

Humans went into space in these things back in the sixties.

The controls look like some old penny arcade game and

there's no room to move at all. Makes you realise how primitive

early technology was and the kinds of risks Armstrong and the like

were prepared to take in the name of science.

Head in the clouds

Ah, true love! Someone wrote their girlfriend's

name across the sky! Pity he didn't spell it right

(I bet Mabel was furious)

Flying high

What a sight to see a kite ...

Soaring through the sky ...

Thin and light, bold and bright ...

A giant sailing by ...

If I was light, just like a kite ...

I'd spread my wings and fly.

Fish food

When my wife worked for AIMS

(Australian Institute of Marine Science)

She took me out there one day to go fishing

What she didn't tell me was that these guys

like to go fishing for humans. Blimey!!

As soon as the bread hit the water, they were

all over it like piranhas on steroids.

Just when I thought it was safe to go back in the water!

Give me a sign

We've snapped some exotic signs in our travels.

All kinds of critters in all kinds of places ...

And all kinds of climates.

But I think my favourite sign, apart from this one ...

Is this one, which makes me duck whenever I see it.

Ockeroo

Even the kangaroos are layback in Australia. I can just picture this guy with a beer, watching the footy and scratching his privates. Makes me laugh every time I look at it.