Harvest is starting to really get going this week now that the weather has started to do the right thing.
This is Canola being harvested.
Canola turns from a nice bright yellow flower that looks sensational in spring into a tangled prickly dry plant at harvest time.
You wouldn’t drive a vehicle thru the stubble after it is harvested as you could easily puncture a tyre.
More harvest shots to come as things hot up abit.
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This was a 4 image stitch and the 2nd beer.
This is a quick shot taken a couple of nights ago for Jamie. He was asking me at the pizza night ( wasn’t that along while ago now ) did I know anything about some old war fuel storage tanks around Northam . Well this is what they are and they are on the side of the road on the way to Muresk College on the south of town about 4 km’s from Northam
Here’s a couple of shots from the worlds biggest photography pizza night supplied by Ben from Team Digital .
Taken on his G11 by myself and Pete Hodgson.
As you can see Ben , the portraiture workshop last week really paid off for both of us 
You can see Fletch and Ben sort of hogged the show a bit.
Ben Walton, Team Digital, left, and Christian Fletcher ” Our pizza’s are big and they’re cheesy “
Ben” the tosser” Walton . This one didn’t touch the floor, but he had to wait till it came off the roof
L-R Merv French , Ben , Fletch
L-R Stephen Williams , Mike Fletcher , Jamie Paterson and iTNFP.
Mark ” The gun pizza cook ” Stothard inserting another one into the fire.
” This is my 4 th pizza, I’m going to bust out of this unreal shirt like Superman soon.”
It was a good fun night .
When Mark approached me on Friday night at the pizza party with a little plastic bag that had green seeds in it I thought ” Hey , you’ve got the wrong guy “
Nah just joking.
Mark had told me he had the MOET et CHANDON of green teas and was giving me some to try.
Well you have to see what happens here . Put a couple of seeds in a cup and pour on hot water.
Nothing to special here . BUT .. wait a few minutes and …WOW.. this is what happens they open up like a Lotus Flower , quite SPECTACULAR.
Not sure where they are grown , probably on the west side of a gentle Tibetan slope and picked by only Monks that were born in the year of 1946 , Mark will have to fill us in here.
I must say the tea is a very nice tasting Green tea , not like the common garden variety.
Thanks Mark for the tea it’s great, and a real conversation piece.
It really is the MOET et CHANDON of Green Tea
Well I can’t stop now , so here’s three more from Marble Bar, what a place !!
This one is the grocery store or one of them , and what a store it is.
Packed to the roof with anything you may need…. if it’s open.
You have to be there when the owner decides he wants to open the door , which could be anytime he feels like it.
This one below is the road into Kitty Cat Gap , the gap can be seen in the distance.
It really is great country, I love it up in the North West.
And here is the gap itself
This one is east of Marble Bar at Kitty Cat Gap a nice little water hole in a gap in the hills there Nice little place to camp and you’ll probably have it all to yourself as its a bit off the beaten track.
Marble Bar in the Pilbara region of Western Australia is a rather famous or infamous town , depends on which way you look at it
It’s famous for being the hottest town in WA but it also has some of the coldest beer in WA.
To give this little town it’s 5 minutes of fame Dave Bettini suggested a showcase Marble Bar day where several of us have posted shots from the area around Marble Bar.
Here is my shot from the area.
This is Chinamans Pool which is about 10km’s west of the town. This was taken one evening in August 08 and we camped here for the night next to the no camping sign.
So for your next Holiday don’t go to Bali, don’t go to Hawaii , don’t go to the Gold Coast , pack up and GO TO MARBLE BAR.
Here is a panorama image of the town.
click on the image to enlarge
You could even live in Marble Bar . Check out the real estate in town and compare the prices to Sydney.
Here are the other shots from the area.
Do you have any shots from Marble Bar in WA?
Dave Bettini has suggested a mini Marble Bar promo so I’m in it and we are both going to post a shot from Marble Bar or surrounding area on Wed. night so if you have anything put it up on your blog and we will all have a look and see what everyone has from a rather unique part of the world.
Leave a note here if you like and I’ll link it.
Cheers .
After seeing a pano on Flemming’s blog of Marble Bar it reminded me of this shot that I took there last year.As Flemming explained nothing much happens in Marble Bar , it’s a pretty laid back place , but there is plenty to see if you know where to look.
I went up to the lookout on this evening and decided to try something different . I took these shots spread over about 10 min or something like that and PTGUI stitched and blended them fairly well I’d say. It was very warm and still so I guess thats why there is little or no cloud movement .
It’s something a little out if the ordinary and I flicked it off to Flemming in an email just to show him my take on Marble Bar , he encouraged me to post it , so here it is.
One good thing at Marble Bar , the beers cold at the pub.
Jump over to Pete Hodgson’s new blog that he has just kicked off.
Go easy on the poor guy cause he shoots with a Nikon , but he can’t help that , anyway it seems to work for him most of the time.
He does build a pretty mean camper if you need one , but I’ll let him explain that later
I’ve got to say that his header is one of the best shots I’ve seen of the Busso Jetty.
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