Children Play - a homage

Children Play - A homage

Inspired by the works of The International Collaboration Project:
Deb Young & Frank Diaz - The International Collaboration Project

This Gif created by ©bill purvis.

Another distraction from photographing field hockey.
A boy aware of the Magpies intention engages it in play.
The photos were taken at the State Hockey Centre, 'The Pines',
Pooraka, Adelaide, South Australia.

'Swooping Magpie' was entered as a 4 frame set in the Australian Photography Awards.
A commendation was received.

Obahn Busway Adelaide Tunnel Entrances Saturday 27 January 2018

A warm 36C in Adelaide today.
My knees were aching for a bike ride.
I cycled in to take some photographs of the new
$160M  Obahn Busway Tunnel opened on
Monday 11 December 2017.
©billpurvis

Buses entering and exiting the Tunnel at the Grenfell Street/East Tce feeder intersection.

The exit from the city along Hackney Road opposite the National Wine Centre and Botanical Gardens.

Goodman Administration Building adjacent to the Old Tram Barn

Goodman Administration Building - Old Tram Barn located Hackney Road

Hackney Road Tunnel Exit/Entrance opposite Goodman Administration Building and the National Wine Centre

Tunnel Entrance/Exit towards Grenfell Street feeder lanes.

from Grenfell Street towards Tunnel Entrance/Exit

Feeding into Grenfell Street after exiting the Tunnel.

The Tunnel Project

Entering the Tunnel after exiting Grenfell Street. The Obahn is a guided busway. The rails are shown in the foreground on either side of each lane.

Obahn Busway Underpass Construction Hackney Road - Grenfell Street, Adelaide

The Adelaide Obahn Busway is one of only a few in the world, and
the longest.
An underpass is under construction and due to be commissioned
later this year.
It will reduce traffic volume and delays by diverting the
Obahn Bus System off of Hackney Road and North Terrace
through the underpass, under the intersection, and entering
Grenfell Street through the exit at east Terrace.
I first suggested a tunnel through the parklands in a letter
to the editor some 10/15 years ago.
I have been following the construction with interest.
©billpurvis

A teaser - how many people are there working on the apartment block? Is the fire engine moving too fast relatively?

A Fire Engine crosses Hackney Road at North Terrace intersection.

The Entrance/Exit towards the eastern foothills from Grenfell Street
East Terrace T junction.

Terrainisaurus Digger
(that's why it is in a cage)
in the background Tandanya Aboriginal Cultural Art Gallery

Still photographs.

The Entrance/Exit - how will the landscaping play out?

EPA1

EPA2

What to wear.

I'm on this side

Now I'm on the other side.

Surveillance

Tunnel entrance/exit.

Height limit 4 metres.

Selling the message

A look down Hackney Road - tunnel construction in progress.

Soon to be covered

Tex takes a bus. Adelaide Crows captain advertising AFL App.

The OBahn bus on the road will soon be in the Tunnel.

Roadside detritus

Hackney Road/North Tce intersection

Is that a Riley? I have been advised it is a Citroen Type 7A.

These views are from my previous foray in July 2016.
There has been a significant change.

Premier League Men's Hockey Round 23 AHC 7 Woodville HC 1 played Sunday 28 August 2016

Premier League Men's Hockey AHC 7 Woodville HC 1
Round 23 played Sunday 28 August 2016
The game was played at Adelaide University Hockey Club West Beach

©billpurvis

For a full posting of game photographs go to this link:
Round 23 AHC 7 Woodville 1 Photo Album

A Gif created of a goal scored by Fraser Bowden for AHC.

The Gif is dead. Long live the GIF.

Road Trip - Adelaide, Port Wakefield, Port Germein, Port Pirie, Port Augusta, Glendambo, Coober Pedy, Quorn, Hawker, Gladstone - The Flinders Ranges.

 Castle Rock is a short walk off the road just outside of the township of Hawker in the Flinders Ranges of  South Australia. This Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby broke cover as I approached and I was able to shoot some frames for this short Gif.   Click on the image to enlarge and allow time for the frames to load.

Road Trip - Adelaide, Port Wakefield, Port Germein, Port Pirie,
Port Augusta, Glendambo, Coober Pedy, Quorn, Hawker, Gladstone
 - The Flinders Ranges.

Text&Images©billpurvis

Glenda, Leo (the dog) and I left Adelaide on Tuesday 21 June 2016
and returned on Monday 27 June 2016.

First stop ex Adelaide - Cornish Pasties - Port Wakefield

The Wakefield River

Lunch by the 150 year old 6 metre girth Pepper Tree

Foggy departure from Port Augusta the morning of the second day.

What is it? - A rare Tidal meter.

Wet at Glendambo

Maintain the warning signs?

Warning signs - the danger of open shafts - Coober Pedy.

One of the few remaining drive-in screens - at Coober Pedy

Main street in Coober Pedy

Down the Oodnadatta Road to The Painted Desert - if passable?? 200kms

- or 198kms direct to Oodnadatta - if passable?

The back road to The Breakaways was not passable.

The Breakaways - Coober Pedy

Stick figure family - The Breakaways

An absolute treasure - Crocodile Harry's dugout -  featured in Mad Max Thunderdome.

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Crocodile Harry pictured in his cave and the locale for Mad Max

A curators nightmare - historic photographs suffering the elements

Fayes Cave. Faye and her friends dug her home by hand out of rock at the end of the day after she had finished working her claim at another site. She must have hit pay dirt because she was later able to subcontract the work for this swimming pool and have it filled with water trucked from Port Augusta. She sold her cave home which is now a museum, and bought an outback hotel. She died  recently.

Top Knot and tree, red in the sunset - Oasis caravan Park - Coober Pedy

Farewell to Coober Pedy

Hmmm which track? OK not this one.  William Creek was later isolated due to the road being impassable.

An oasis in opal town

Working diggings. The fields extend some distance from Coober Pedy.

The highway serves as an emergency airstrip for the Royal Flying Doctor Service which covers thousands of kilometres of the Australian outback.

Road trains are frequently encountered.

Through Port Augusta en-route to Quorn.

The beautiful hues in the sunshine - outback South Australia

En-route to Quorn - Flinders Ranges

Greeted at our site in Quorn by a magpie and mate . This one has a deformed beak but seems healthy enough.

The Galahs gathered - The Mating Tree - Quorn Caravan Park

We stayed 3 nites in the Quorn Caravan Park and thoroughly enjoyed it. We travelled to Hawker and returned to here.

A picturesque view en-route to Hawker.

Outback stockman - a life cut short.

Why are they called Rock Wallabies?

The walk to Castle Rock.

Castle Rock

Leo sniffs out a water hole in the rocks.

The mud wasp builds a home in the ruins.

Tombstone - Simmonston - the town that never was.

Simmonston - the town that never was.

Out running The Roadrunner.

The Road Runner

Careful - Mick might be watching.

Tim Green, winner of the Pichi Richi marathon - 42kms, collected his trophy and caught a plane back to Tasmania. Tim recently competed in the 100km North Face in the Blue Mountains. He reportedly was carrying an injury but crossed the line 'as fresh as a daisy'.

Click link below to:
Pichi Richi marathon news report

Quorn

Quorn

Quorn

Quorn

Quorn

Quorn

The Pichi Richi Railway Preservation Society has restored and operates trains
on the line between Port Augusta and Quorn.
Information regarding the railway can be found here: Pichi Richi Railway Timetable and history.

Condiment with wine

En-route back home via a stop at Gladstone.

Once the backbone of the State of South Australia

Native Bee

A Gladstone resident

The fleece of which the wealth was derived.