Mera badbilder, fler strander !

Det kryllar av fina badstrander langs hela Australiens Westcoast. Det ar svart att valja alla ar lika bra, men vissa har storre vagor och foredras av surfare. Det typiska for de stranderna ar att de ar "langgrunda" bara en bit ut sedan blir det tvardjupt. De mer langgrunda stranderna passar battre for barn, men man maste alltid vara pa sin vakt aven har. Det finns "badvakter" pa alla strander och det kostar inget att bada nagonstans liksom att alla offentliga toaletter och alla museer ar "GRATIS".Man anser har att fritt intrade pa museer ar en viktig kulturfraga och kulturstimulerande. JMF Moderaterna forsta kulturinsats.Avskaffandet den fria entren till vara museer.

Forsta stranden har vi sett forut. Kand fran TV. Bondi Beach ! Stranden ar 1,5 km lang och har lange varit ett Mecka for soldyrkare och surfare.Manniskor soker sig till Bondi lika mycket for dess trendiga strandkafeer och kosmopolitiska miljo som for den varldskanda stranden.

Den nast basta stranden heter Coogee. Det finns en rangordningstabell, pa stranderna med 7 bedomningskategorier:

 1/Simbassang2/Surfing3/Vindsurfing 4/Fiske 5/ Sportdykning 6/Picknick/Grill 7/Restaurang/Kafe.

Bade Bondi och Coogee far 6 av 7 poang. Pa Bondi kan/far man inte vindsurfa och pa Coogee ar det inte bra att surfa.

Aven relativt sma strander forsoker profilera sig. Har med "vattenlek" och "hinderbana", har Narrabeen Lake , en mindre och "lugnare" strand. Roligare for pojkarna.

Jag vet inte om ni ar intresserade av fler badbilder. Det kanske racker. Vi byter strand nastan varje dag och det kan bli trottsamt med badbilder i langden.Har dock nagra bilder fran en annan strand langre ner ca 17 Mil nedanfor Sydney. Jarvis Bay och Huskisson med stranden Hymas Beach med varldens vitaste strand.

Har fick vi aven se vilda delfiner 5 stycken ca 100 meter fran stranden.



Waltzing Matilda

Denna sida ar helt och hallet agnad at Australiens inofficiella hymn " Waltzing Matilda", den sjongs av de Australiska soldaterna i bade fortsa och andra varldskriget och alla skolbarn kan den." Idas Sommarvisa", slang dig i vaggen

(.Med tekniken hjalp skall vi val sa smaningom kunna lagga till lite ljudfiler har. Vi har dock inte hunnit dit annu. Tiden ar begransad, tyvarr kommer texten inte in som jag vill, med ratta rader, jag jobbar pa det ! Far duga sa lange )

Waltzing Matilda

unoffical National Anthem of Australia
Lyrics by
 A.B. Paterson

Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
 "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"
And he sang as he watched and waited till his billy boiled,
 "Who'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me?"

Down came a jumbuck to drink at the billabong
: Up jumped the swagman and grabbed him with glee
 And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker-bag,
 "You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.
 Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
 You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.
" And he sang as he shoved that jumbuck in his tucker-bag
"You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me."

Up rode a squatter, mounted on his thoroughbred;
Down came the troopers, one, two, three:
 "Who's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?
 You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me!
 Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me.
Who's that jolly jumbuck you've got in your tucker-bag?
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me!"

Up jumped the swagman and sprang into the billabong;
 "You'll never catch me alive!" said he
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
 "You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me!
Waltzing Matilda, Waltzing Matilda,
You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me!"
And his ghost may be heard as you pass by that billabong,
 "You'll come a-waltzing Matilda with me!"

Waltz Matilda:  ar ett uttryck som betyder”ga pa luffen med ett knyte pa axeln”

* swagman: en luffare som bar sina agodelar bland annat en rullad filt i ett knyte pa axeln.
* billabong: en nastan stillastaende vattensamling ofta del av en meanderbildad langsam flod "
* coolibah tree: eukalyptustrad
 * waited till his billy boiled: billy betyder tunnt kokkarl for att koka the och kaffevatten.
 * jumbuck:  “far” eller "sheep"
 * tucker-bag: vaska eller lada som anvands for att lagra mat. “Matvaska”.
* squatter:  en extremt rik faragare med manga far. I Europa betyder det “Husockupant”.
 * trooper: ridande polis eller soldat.




Har foljer historien bakom Walzing Matilda fast pa engelska. Hoppas det gar bra anda !



Banjo Paterson was an average solicitor, but a much-loved poet. Great literature his works may not be, but they captured much about the life of the time.
Paterson worked in Sydney, but was about 1,500 km (950 miles) north, in central Queensland, when he wrote the song. In January 1895, he was travelling with his fiancee Sarah Riley (the Irish element in Australian social history is pretty noticeable at times!). They stayed for a few weeks at Dagworth Station, a 100,000 hectare (400 square mile) property near Winton. There he met an old schoolmate of Sarah's, Christina Macpherson, whose brother Bob managed the station.
At some stage during the rainy visit (it was the middle of 'the Wet'), Christina played a version of a tune called 'Craigeelee'. Some renditions say that she played it on an instrument called an autoharp, but Richard Magoffin quotes Paterson himself to the effect that it was in fact played on a zither. Unfortunately the term zither is used, and has long been used, to refer to many of a large family of stringed instruments (hence, for example, it could have been an autoharp - which is a fairly specific descriptor - but Paterson could have used the generic sense of 'zither' to refer to it). Here's one history of the zither. The main page contains some second-hand information and some interpretive comments on the tune.
Over dinner at the station, Paterson first heard the experssion " WALZING MATILDA Soon afterwards, Bob Macpherson took Paterson to Combo Waterhole nearby, where they stumbled across the skin of a newly killed sheep.
Another formative influence may have been a recent incident on the property, that must have become known to Paterson. This was the period during which unionisation emerged in Australia, and the sheep-shearers were fighting the graziers for better wages and conditions. On 1 September 1894, a mere four months earlier, shearers had set the Dagworth woolshed ablaze, cremating a hundred sheep. Macpherson and three police troopers had pursued them. One had shot himself (out of remorse at killing sheep?? More likely, to avoid capture). The man's name was Hoffmeister.
So it's to be presumed that Paterson linked a dead sheep at the billabong, presumably killed by a swagman, with some details from the pursuit and presumed defiance of a shearer with a German name. (Sort-of kills the romance, dunnit?!).
One aspect that seems odd is that the song gives the impression of remarkable sympathy for the plight of the working class in the face of the power of the land-owners and their friends the police. Did Bob and Christina Macpherson really enjoy hosting someone who wrote songs that romanticised their opponents?? This explanation, which may have been originated by Magoffin, is not without its critics. I'm told by a correspondent that, in Stuart Svensen's self-published book - 'Industrial War: The great strikes 1890-94' published in 1995 (RAM Press - self published), in a chapter on the origins of Waltzing Matilda, Svenson favours an older theory: "A squatter and three policemen are on a ride; they spot a swagman who has stolen a sheep; the swagman escapes arrest by diving into a waterhole. End of story". Svenson gives his reasons in the book, which comes down to 'logical consistency and parsimony'. Svensen also wrote 'The Shearers' War. The Story of the 1891 Shearers' Strike' (University of Queensland Press, 1989). Svenson's anti-romantic version appears to be supported by no actual evidence.
Whatever the strains [sic] that may have emerged between hosts and guests, Christina wrote up the score for the song, the original words were revised a couple of times to improve its 'feel' and singability, it was sung at a banquet for the Premier of Queensland on 6 April 1895, and it travelled (via the local horse-races, of course) throughout the State. It was then picked up by the company that sold what was to become another Australian icon, Billy Tea, to use in an advertisement.
By the time of the Great War, twenty years later, it was the country's favourite song (and at least for those odd occasions when patriotism takes hold, it still is). In 1900, Paterson had sold the rights to the verse, along with a few other pieces, for five quid, to another Australian icon, the publishing house Angus & Robertson. So his reputation gained from it, but hardly his pocket. (Sounds like the squatters won again, right?).

Whatever its origins and the fate of the intellectual property, the song encapsulates so much about Australians: a highly urban society of people who like to think of themselves as rugged, independent country folk, standing up against authority. (For an encore, I'd better pull together some lit. crit. on Crocodile Dundee ...)
 







Alla dessa konstiga djur

Det ar faktiskt spannande med alla dessa ljud pa mornarna Kookaburran, Kakaduorna och grannens standigt kvackande grodor. Det finns ju inga giftiga spindlar i Sverige och knappt nagra giftiga ormar heller. Huggormen ar mindre farlig an en geting tex. Har kryllar det av konstiga och farliga giftiga djur. Det ar inte sa att man ser dem , men de finns och man har respekt for dem.

Denna spindelkarta finns i alla Australienska hem pa kylskapet.De tre oversta spindlarna ar de farligaste och allra varst Sydney Funnel-Web , hane och hona , och de finns bara i Sydneyomradet.

Detta skall vara en Sydney Tunnel-Web

En Redneck-spindel

Annars ar det val faglarna man mest kommer i kontakt med.Kakaduorna skranar och flaxar mella de hoga traden i bland i stora svarmar, men visst ar de vackra. For att ni skall forsta hur det later arbetar jag pa att lagga in ljud av de olika faglarna

Men kookaburran som aven kallas "Bushmans clock" ar inte heller en liten fagel. Den kan bli valdigt stor till och med. Har nedan en valdigt stor en och sedan den jag forsokte fotografera nere i tradgarden har men som inte vill lata sig overforas.

Det finns  faglar som liknar grasparvar i sitt upptradande. men som ar sa mycket vackrare och farggrannare. De kommer till altanen sa fort man largger ut fron till dem . De ar mycket tama och nastan oradda och man kan sitta och lasa och de trippar runt fotterna. De heter" Lorikeet Parrots" och ser ut pa detta satt !

De ar alltsa lika vanliga som grasparvar, men sa mycket vackrare. Allt ar sa annorlunda har . Fantastiskt !

Sa har vi den fina sangfageln " Whipbird" som ar svar att se, men som har ett typiskt ljud.



Sa en spindel som ar vacker men ofarlig . Det finns flera exemplar av denna i Johans tradgard.





Sa himla manga barnbarn och anda sa finns fler

Vi ar ju ute mad barnen nastan jamt. Barnbarnen ar i centrum och man vet nar de blir trotta och inte orkar mer.Barn vill alltid leka.  Har samlar jag barnbilder i  nastan kronologisk ordning. Bilder pa mina barnbarn huller om buller.Har finns ocksa olika strandbilder bland anna fran Coogee , dar vi badade i hoga vagor och Bondi Beach, kant fran TV. Lite extra krut har lagts pa var pizza-lunch med Krokodil-pizza, Kanguru-pizza och Emu-pizza. Det ar gott och det syns pa ungarna. Jag har givetvis manga fler bilder fran Sydney dar inga ungar inns med . Bland annat pa den kolossala bron och operahuset. Det kommer sedan.

Forst nagra bilder fran Australien Reptile Park

som ligger nara Gosford lite norr om Sydney.

Lite bilder hemifran

Nagra bilder fran "den forsta stranden" barnvanlig och lugn.

Kulturdag !

 Vi besoker Nicholson Museeum vid Sydney University.

 Dar har de bland annat mumier och Samuel tar manga bilder pa mumierna

 speciell pa dem som de malde och gjorde medicin av.

Har ar montern med mumier man gjorde medicin av. Laskigt och ackligt !

Vi hann med lite antik romersk och grekisk historia ocksa !

Men sedan behovdes lite rackgymnastik for att inte stelna till.

Tanken var att vi skulle besoka det beromda akvariet, men kon var sa valdigt lang

 sa vi tog Skylineen till Chinatown i stallet. Samuel har battre bilder darifran som jag tanker lana nar tid erbjuds

Sedan gick vi till den Kinesiska tradgarden och drack the (farfar) noch lask

och gick runt i tradgarden. Har finns manga fler bilder !

Man kunde hyra kinesiska klader , och leka Mandarin men vi gjorde inte det.

Pa vag till bilen och hem rakade vi pa en vattenskulptur som ungarna hade valdigt roligt i.

Nasta dag var vi ute och fiskade bland annat !

Och farfar ovar infor det stora slut;provet namligen surfingen pa de kraftiga vagorna nedanfor Sydney, surfing ar ett maste har i Australienoch man kan aldrig bli for gammal for surfing !

Tank er Beach Boys ! Surfing Safari !

Jag borjar bli i form !

Kultur igen !

Vi besoker Botany Bay. Den plats dar James Cook landade med sitt fartyg

Endeavour pa sin stora varldsomsegling 1768 - 1771. Dar fanns ett valdigt bra Visitor Center.

Sedan blev det badning pa Coogee Beach nummer tva av Sydneys beromda strander. Har gick vagoerna valdigt hoga. Samuel har battre bilder !

Har ser vi den andra mest beromda stranden  Bondi Beach ,stranden som det tydligen gar nagon sorts TV -serie i Sverige  om .Jag har aldrig sett nagon men Cecilia vet sakert.

Nasta dag akte vi in till Centrum , "To the Rocks". Vi parkerade snett under den beromda bron som ar nastan lika beromd som Operahuset. Det ar en enorm konstruktion. Man kan betala ca 1000 skr for en guidad vandring over bron , iford speciella skyddsklader och hjalm och fastlankad vid ett rep. Alla kandisar brukar vandra upp over dessa stalvalv, Obama, Springsteen och sist men inte minst Viktoria och Daniel ! Bingo ! Vi avstar dock . Det skulle innebara en kostnad for familjen pa 8000 svkr , och det kan det aldrig vara vart, dessutom har vi  ju en 3-aring med oss. Han ar tuff, men det finns granser !

Vi satsade pa en riktig Australiensisk lunch istallet meb Krokodil-pizza, Kanguru-pizza och Emu-pizza , samt en nagot udda Pizza med lamm-kott . Ungarna hade kul och tyckte det var roligt Samuel at mest Krokodil-pizza , 4 bitar. Hantyckte den var godast. Battre an kanguru och Emu.  Sant ar livet i Australien !

Aven farfar gillade de exotiska pizzorna !

Stallet dar vi at de Australiensiska pizzorna ar ett kulturhus, ett gammalt akta hotell som ar restaurerat och nyrenoverat. Vi har tagit fler bilder. Det ser kanske pavert ut , men det ligger centralt i "The Rocks" och det ar genuint akta Australiensiskt. Man blir blasse pa Hilton och andra lyxhotell. De ar sig lika over hela varlden och erbjuder inget nytt eller genuint.Microsoft brukar boka in sina kunder som soker "genuinitet" har , men hotellet ar oftast fullbelagt.Det ar egentligen ingen pizzeria i vanlig bemarkelse utan mera en akta Australiensisk Pub med bra kok i bottenvaningen med hur manga sorters Australiensiskt ol som helst.

Ett urval av nagra Australienska olsorter. Alla haller ca 4,5 %  alkoholhalt dvs som svenskt mellanol. Det finns starkare ol, men efterfragan pa dem ar liten. Man anser att 4,5 % alkohol ger det godaste olet.