Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Oz is a lovely place a bit behind the times in social customs, particularly in the deep north (Darwin). We went there a couple years ago on holiday flew into Sidney, up to Bundaberg, out to Lady Elliot Island on the Great Barrier reef (where the locals go) opps 16.2m Aussies are pissed as the secret is out...up to Darwin down to the huge park Gagadu (spelling?) stayed in the Croc hotel, then to Carnes, Perth and Melbourne and out thru NZ. Loved Melbourne visit Oz... btw Leicas are quite dear there a couple SM bodies in the luggage traded to a local dealer can (and did) go a ways to pay for the trip... > Australia at 976,784sq.m > Queensland is 668,203.19 sq.m > Northern Territory is 520,898 sq.m ( a bit smaller than Alaska) > South Aust is 379,722 sq.m and > New South Wales is 309,127 sq m. > All of which are more than twice the size of California > Then we have the smaller states of Victoria, Tasmania and the ACT. > > I don't think most people realise how big this place is! > > Rob > > Jeff Moore wrote: > >> 2002-12-10-12:47:48 Martin Howard: >>> Any large rangefinder gets called a "Texas Leica" -- in some way odd, >>> since I thought Texas was only the second largest state in the US, >>> after California. >> >> Second largest, yes; after CA, I don't think so. >> >> Reminds me of the old joke: after listening to the Texan brag over and >> over how everything about his state is the biggest, the Alaskan suggests >> that if he and his kind don't shut up, Alaska will split itself in >> half... and then there there will be *two* states bigger than Texas. >> >> California: 155,973 square miles; >> Texas: 261,914 square miles; >> Alaska: 570,374 square miles. >> -- >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > __________________________________ > Rob Heyman M.Photog > 32 Binyara Street > CHAPEL HILL Qld 4069 > Ph 07 3878 3884 fax 07 3378 6639 > __________________________________ > > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html