Polaris

A nothing photo for sure but it was the first (and only) time I have ever seen the north star, quite a few people on this planet take it for granted but for me it has always been out of sight.

On my last night in the Philippines we had a lovely couple of drinks near Daraga church on the top of the hill. Mayon, which was behind us in this photo nearly blocked us seeing Polaris, which soon was obscured by cloud anyway but at least I saw it. What was extra special was seeing the Southern Cross and the Pointers at the other end of the sky, seeing the icons of both hemisphere at the same time was special to me, and the night was special to Olivia and myself.

New cement.

I popped out to the cemetery to see Grace today and saw they had laid a new concrete header row, done to match the length to the others, pity Grace's bit is just a wobbly add-on to match the other rows, even the chap who mounted her plaque moaned about the surface.
Her death may have stopped the marriage but it doesn't stop the love and caring.

Unclear to me.

I saw this and was most confused, I thought it may have been an anti-seashepherd sticker, which would have astonished me, but the silent majority seldom do things like that, so I suppose they must support their illegal activities.

In a Cairns park.

A couple of giant strawberries that are shaped like toadstools.
Quite pretty but areas like these are now the domain of smokers, so one has to be careful where to step, and monitor the wind direction.

Cairns harbour.

It had a lovely look when I wandered about wasting time waiting for the bus to Ingham.

Smoking permitted.

So the bin took advantage.

The plane I flew from Darwin to Sydney in.

It must be a recent one as it has the fancy wingtips, the plane I flew to Cairns had older plainer ones yet was a 2007 model.
What I found most interesting was both jet engines rotated the same way, boats and propeller planes would tend to have counter rotating engines.
In total on the adventure I flew in eight aeroplanes and they were all Airbus A-320, indeed a very popular plane, which must also be considered a good one from its record, at least my flights were all under 5 hours.