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The Power Point
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I have many points. Sometimes I’ll get to the point. Sometimes I’ll totally miss the point.
By following me you’ll be plugged into The Power Point. Just hope you don’t get electrocuted.
All photos I post are mine, unless I point out that they are not.
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I watched the #SunRise over #DiscoveryBeach at #MarcoolaBeach in #Queensland, #Australia.

#Morning #Sunrise #Balloon #SandyPath #Beach #Sun #Photography #Travel

#BlueSkyArtShow #Bright
A pink balloon filled with helium marks the path between grass covered dunes. The path leads to a white sandy beach. A sign to the side of the path warns about Strong Currents, Dumping Waves and Submerged Objects. In the distance, the sun which has recently risen, reflects off the low waves. A group of people are standing on the beach.
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Have you been to a #50thAnniversary screening of #RockyHorrorPictureShow?

My local #Cinema handed us party bags & instructions to throw rice, cards & other props. We left a huge #Mess to cleanup.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForRock
#Fun #TimeWarp #Music #Nostalgia #CultMovie #WasItReally50Years
Looking across a row of black seats in a cinema. The carpet along the row is strewn with white rice and playing cards. On the seat trays there are bags, hats and other assorted pieces of party debris. In the background, lush red curtains hang from the ceiling to the floor.
October 26, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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A #Rock-Wallaby posed for me at #WilsonPlateau in #WesternAustralia.
I was lucky to see her as they are #Nocturnal and very timid. She didn’t stay still for very long. Someone took a step toward her & she hopped back into the Rocks.
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekRforRocks
#Travel
#Photography
#Australia
A rock-wallaby pauses in the sunshine, her tail curled behind her. She is close to a large rock formation that she can hop off to if she feels threatened.
October 26, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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#Sydney doesn’t always host #CruiseShips overnight.

#OvationOfTheSea returned the #Night before her original schedule, due to a medical emergency onboard. She berthed at #OPT, near the iconic #HarbourBridge & #OperaHouse.

#WeekNforNight #AlphabetChallenge
#Photography #Travel
#Australia
The cruise ship “Ovation of the Seas” is berthed at Sydney’s Overseas Passenger Terminal overnight. The huge ship is framed by the Sydney Harbour Bridge on it’s left and across the water, the sails of the Sydney Opera House are lit up.
September 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Gibb River - Wyndham Road crosses the #DurackRiver in #WesternAustralia
#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad
You’ll need a #4WheelDrive for this trip.
#Photography #Travel #Australia #Remote #OutBack #DirtRoad #RiverCrossing
#It’sYourTurnToDrive
A river crossing on a dirt road that needs some tender loving care. In the foreground the road consists of fractured cement. Wet tyre tracks show vehicles have recently crossed the puddle of water that sits over the road. On the other side of the river crossing, the dirt road continues up a hill, framed by sparse tree cover.
September 27, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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It’s well worth your time to visit the delightful #HobbitHouses at #Hobbiton #NorthIsland #NewZealand.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Home
#PeterJackson #TheHobbit
#T.R.R.Holkien #LordOfTheRings

#Travel #Photography #Art #Garden #House #Nature #Movie #FunDayOut
The photo shows Hobbit’s home, located at Hobbiton New Zealand. The grassy roof covers a cute house. There is a blue door, framed by two round windows. Outside, in the small fenced garden, is a table and chairs and a wheelbarrow loaded with newly picked vegetables.
September 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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I recently played a game of #Jenga, with a twist. The #Pieces were huge and we were on a moving #CruiseShip at the time, increasing it’s propensity to wobble threateningly.
It was a nerve racking game but definitely a lot of #Fun.

#ILost

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#Travel
#CruiseLife
A woman walks away from a large-scale version of Jenga with her head in her hands. Players take turns removing one block at a time from a tower of wooden blocks and balancing it on top. The goal is to avoid causing the tower to collapse, with the game becoming more challenging as the structure becomes increasingly unstable. To add complexity, this one is being constructed on a moving cruise ship.
August 16, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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#ArticCathedral also known as #Ishavskatedralen or #TromsdalenChurch #Tromsø #Norway

#Travel #Photography #StainedGlass #Church #Chandelier
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekGforGlass
The sunlight shines into a church outlining a beautiful stained glass window. It features a tall thin blueish figure with arms outswept. Other smaller figures are silhouetted using black glass. Smaller sections of the window use bright earthy coloured glass as background. In front of the stained glass window, 2 chandeliers hang from the roof in the main part of the church.
August 13, 2025 at 6:49 AM
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Anyone who drives through #Bathurst NSW makes a detour to the #MountPanorama #RaceTrack circuit.
Unfortunately when it’s not race weekend the speed limit is 60km per hour & the local boys in blue police it with a vengeance.
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDrivetime
#Australia
#Photography
#Travel
Looking through a car windshield at Mount Panorama, the Bathurst 1000 race track. A grey sky overlooks a sponsor-covered bridge over the track. Chain fences separate spectator stands from the road.
July 22, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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In #Suburbia we love putting #Decorations up outside to celebrate #Christmas, which falls during #Summer in #Australia & #NewZealand.

This can cause confusion for our northern neighbours. Of course we’re all cold right now, and counting days till summer.

#Photography
#SummerDaze #BlueSkyArtShow
Red tinsel is wound around the trunk of a tree and red and yellow baubles hang from several branches. Some christmas lights are woven through the foliage but not turned on, given the midday sun. A fibreglass boat on a trailer sits on the next door neighbours footpath and several family sized cars are parked in driveways and on the footpath across the bitumen road.
July 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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A #Pelican is taking a nice afternoon stroll on the shores of the lake, just before sunset.
#WeekZforZoology
#AlphabetChallenge

#Australia
#Nature
#Photography
#Water
#Sand
#Bird
A pelican stands sideways at the edge of a lake. There is a bit of grass in the foreground which blends into sand, with a small puddle of water. The shadows from trees fall across the lake in the top of the photo.
June 25, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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#Australia has 3 #RailwayTrack gauges.
#QueenslandRail introduced #Narrow gauge (1067mm) in 1865 as it would be “cheaper, faster & have tighter curves”.
This was the first #NarrowGauge main line in the world.

In 2020 Qld had 8,146 kms of narrow gauge track.
#Travel
#Transport
#BlueSkyArtShow
A display at the Queensland Rail Workshops at Ipswich showing the 3 different gauges in use across Australia. The narrow gauge is 1067mm and used predominantly in Queensland.
June 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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The #AuroraBorealis is #Vibrant in the #NightSky, inside the #ArcticCircle just south of #Tromsø, #Norway

#CheckItOffTheBucketList

#BlueSkyArtShow
#Travel #Photography #NightPhotography #Nature
#Aurora #Borealis
The Aurora Borealis shines through a cloud, appearing as a curtain woven from green and red lights. The green hue reflects in the water below. Along the edge of the water, lights from small villages can also be seen.
June 7, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Have you visited #Stockholm in #Sweden? They have some amazing metro art. Around 90 of the 100 stations offer unique works of art.
I dedicated a day to catching trains back and forth to see some of the best of the art trail. They did not disappoint!
#Kungsträdgården was one of my favourites.
Kungsträdgården subway station art. Woven through the station’s underground concourse are paintings and sculptures that tell the history of the nearby area.
June 3, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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#Underneath the #Culloden railway viaduct near #Inverness.
It’s also known as the #NairnViaduct and the #ClavaViaduct.

It opened in 1898, has 29 #Arches and at 550 metres is the #Longest masonry #Viaduct in #Scotland

#Travel #Photography
#RedFacedAshlar #GreySky
#TallArches
#BlueSkyArtShow
Looking up at the imposing red-faced ashlar dressed arches of a railway viaduct. A small part of a green field can be seen to the left. The viaduct is sitting underneath grey skies.
May 31, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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What is #Underneath the back cover of your grandfather’s old #PocketWatch?

#IfYouCanPriseTheCoverOpen
#BlueSkyArtShow
#Photography
#FamilyHeirloom
#SentimentalValue
The stainless steel inner workings of an inexpensive old pocket watch. There are springs and sprockets and the name Rolex and Lever appear.
May 31, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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I passed these #Five enchanting #GrassRoofedHuts on the road to #Geiranger.
The #Water has come off a #Glacier so it’s a particular shade of green.

#Norway always delivers. It’s worth the trip!

#WeekVforFive
#AlphabetChallenge
#Photography #Travel #Sunshine #Clouds #Mountain
#Picturesque
Five little brown huts, each with a grassy roof, sit in sunshine on a grassy green paddock. Behind the huts glacial, green water can be seen. In the background, filmy clouds cover the top half of a mountain. There is a small patch of beautiful blue sky in the top left hand corner.
May 27, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Last weekend I went to the #Theatre.
While the #Audience were being seated, a screen on the dark stage displayed visual gags to ‘warm’ everyone up. The messages were highly amusing.

#BlueSkyArtShow #LightAndShadow
#AllHandsMeeting
#Comedy #Culture
#Photograph
We see the back of the heads of a group of people who are watching a presentation which is displayed on a screen sitting on a dark stage. The screen shows 10 people’s arms in a circle, as they link hands together. The accompanying graphic says #AllHandsMeeting.
May 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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Look #Up at the towering walls of the #Abbey of #MontSaintMichel in #Normandy #France.

It has housed monks, been a Viking stronghold and a prison. Over centuries, it’s been damaged and rebuilt many times.

#WeekUforUp #AlphabetChallenge
#UNESCO #WorldHeritageSite
#Travel #Photography #History
Looking up at the towering gray walls of the Abbey at Mont St Michel in France.
May 21, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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Another sign it’s a scam email …

It says the sender is Medicare, but then provides a message from the #AustralianTaxOffice #ATO. In real life, Medicare does not send out ATO related mail, and vice versa!

#DoNotClickOnTheLink

#ScamWatch #ScamEmail

3/5
A screenshot of an email allegedly sent by Medicare, but actually it provides a message from a different agency/department, the Australian Taxation Office.
May 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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What are some signs it is a #Scam?

Check the address it originated from. This one comes from a random gmail address. Legitimate emails from the government should have an address like: at < .gov.au>.

#DoNotClickOnTheLink

#Scammers

2/5
A screenshot of the email sender’s address. In this case we are expecting to see a sender @ department. gov. au address but it actually shows a random gmail address, which means this is a scam email.
May 20, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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#Aussies, I received this email today.

It looks legit, right? It’s got a logo and it’s nicely formatted. They’ve even given me a #SecureLink!

Should I click on the link?

Answer: NO! #DoNotClickOnTheLink

#Scammers #ATOScam #MedicareScam #MyGovScam
#Australia #ScamWatch
#ScamEducation

1/5
Screenshot of email purporting to be from Australia’s Medicare agency. The text advises the reader to click on the link to access a secure message from the Australian Taxation Office.
May 20, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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A #Jet flies overhead.

Would I rather be #Up there with them? Maybe. I suppose it depends where they’re heading. If it’s a long trip, could I afford business class?

#Photography #Travel #PlaneOverhead #BlueSky #Contrail

#NoICan’tAffordItButICanDream

#IsItABird

#WeekUforUp

#AlphabetChallenge
A jet flies overhead in a vivid blue sky. One wide contrail can be seen to the left.
May 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
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When you are on a #Cruise the cabin steward sometimes leaves you presents. This #Cutie is made using a folded #FaceWasher. S/he is #Posing for a close up and you can almost feel the #Texture.

#BlueSkyArtShow
#CruiseLife #Travel #Photography #BlackAndWhite
#TowelArt #Art #Happy
#IDidn’tBringItHome
A black and white photo of a bird, made using a white face washer. Small black plastic dots have been stuck on for eyes. The bird stands on a wooden surface with the light coming from behind. The bird’s little arms/wings are raised in excitement at being here.
May 18, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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When you have a flight to catch, #Time matters more than usual.

I had to be at the #Airport for a flight at #StupidO’Clock. #Bergen #Norway

#DepartureBoard #Travel #Photography

#WeekTforTime
#AlphabetChallenge
An airport departure board showing the time is 05:46. The words on the screen are a mix of Norwegian and English. The very first flight of the day shows as delayed until 10:00. All the other flights range from 06:00 to 09:40. The display shows domestic and international destinations, plus various airlines and departure gates.
May 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM