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Every stop is a story - Darwin to Adelaide River

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  Every stop is a story - Darwin to Adelaide River The Adelaide River Rupture (image to be uploaded - subscribe to be notified) The storm did not break over the Adelaide River plains; rather, reality tore open along the track. To the left, the familiar Top End landscape clung fiercely to its quiet melancholy. A lone gum tree stood sentinel over the charred scrub and dry earth, its leaves catching the last bruised light of a brooding wet-season sky. In the hollow below, the old fictional homestead crouched beside the rutted dirt road, enduring the heavy stillness that always settles before the atmosphere ruptures. Then came the tear. It began not with thunder, but with an overwhelming, luminous heat that shredded the grey overcast into molten ribbons. You could feel the vortex of raw energy sweeping through radiant ambers, searing cadmium oranges, and blinding celestial whites. The vortex descended like a folded dimension brushing against the earth. Where the atmospheric rift touch...

Queen's Birthday - King and Queen quotes to ponder

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Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom. Queen Elizabeth II A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.  Napoleon Bonaparte Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.  Elizabeth I All the time I feel I must justify my existence.  Prince Of Wales Charles Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.  John Dryden They say that kings are made in the image of God. If that is what he looks like, I feel sorry for God . Frederick the Great The foremost art of kings is the ability to endure hatred.  Seneca (Seneca the Elder) The past cannot be cured.  Elizabeth I Good memories are our second chance at happiness. Queen Elizabeth II Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.  George Bernard Shaw If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.  George Will When life s...