we saw ducks, and waders looking like moorhens, a white heron, (the wubber-necked bird), there were some budgie-looking and budgie-sounding birds which could have been a Malle Ringback, and Marie-Anne saw a Goshawk. saw tracks of various wading birds, and a kangaroo, Kelly said there are not many wallabies in Sunraysia
i walked up to the top of this rise, and walked into an area which was unlike anything i had seen before in Sunraysia, there was this ground cover, which i have to identify, with a little white flower, it grows in the lawns, and it was like a glade in a forest, all around me were wattle trees, and some redgums, and this little groundcover, i thought to myself, this is what if all this place all around Sunraysia, all where there are wattle trees, is supposed to look like this? it was magical, this place would be unreal in early morning and early evening. i want to go back there again
yesterday there was a demonstration outside the Dept of Natural Resources about Goolengook, there were about six of us, and the others had masks on their faces that made them look like Steve Bracks, Premier of Victoria. the blockade in Goolengook got busted by the cops, about 2 weeks ago. the blockaders are still trying to get in, and the cops and the DNRE are trying to keep them out.
it was a peaceful demonstration in Mildura, no cops, and no media, and i suppose we collected about 80-100 signatures opposed to the logging in Goolengook.
Back to Antarctica
i am so tired, i feel like i am about to fall asleep, i am reading about the pack ice in Antarctica, but maybe i should have a nap
http://www.antcrc.utas.edu.au/aspect/seaiceglossary.html
and this is where you can get the names of a billion kinds of ice ! :) have you ever thought about how sea ice forms? salty water doesn't freeze, and an iceberg is made of fresh water
wow! this glossary is great and the pictures of the ice are great too
where is the research about the relationship between ice morphology and land morphology, (is that geomorphology?)
"Frazil ice: Fine spicules or plates of ice, suspended in water. Frazil ice formation represents the first stage of sea ice growth. The frazil crystals are usually suspended in the top few centimetres of the surface layer of the ocean and give the water an oily appearance." Aspect glossary
if ice can form like and look like feldspar crystals in a magma melt, i wonder if there are more similiarities between the formations of ice and rock crystals, ice crystals have to freeze out of the sea water, like how (name?) a first stage mineral crystallises from a melt and remain intact to itself floating in the melt as the magma changes to become non-reactive to the crystal
Key Scientific Questions of Aspect
we do sea ice, basically they are saying we don't really know nearly as much as we'd like to about how the ice forms
http://www.antcrc.utas.edu.au/aspect/contents.html