Another winters day in paradise

[col]

Just a few pics ..Goode Beach Albany.

[grenouille]

Col Weather looks beautiful where you are, over here we're having a scorching sun with temp in the 30s, too hot and too bright.
Best we can do is lie on a deckchair under the shade of a tree and enjoy our ice lemon tea, Regards

Hye

[col]

Hye I reckon the weather has gone crazy .. but it looks like some real winder weather is on the way.

Col

[daveh]

Col, do you have to keep your dogs on a "lead" on that beach, or is it just that you choose to?

One has to rethink which way the beach is facing in the other hemisphere and then, to complicate things further when it's within the tropics - and then one has to know when it was taken and where the sun is in that area of the tropics.

Is the beach south-east facing?

[col]

Hi Dave

For the first question it's yes & yes .. It isn't a dog beach so she must be on her lead..and because she's still only a puppy and dosn't return when called the lead is a must.

The beach is east facing.

[camerastoomany]

"Weather looks beautiful where you are"

Yeah, beautiful. 13 deg. max here in Albany today.

[daveh]

A question for those from Oz: Perth.

There are two girls (well, mid-twenties) who head off to Perth next Monday for a year or two. Have you any thoughts about where best to go or not go when they start looking for a place to live? The first two weeks, or thereabouts, they are in a hostel.

[col]

Hi Dave.
I think the best place would be ..
Northern suburbs Morley, Yokine, Inglewood Mt lawley Tuart Hill and parts of Wembley and Glendalough that back onto Herdsmans lake
East out of Perth take a look at places down the Guilford Rd.. Ashfield, Maylands
South of the river maybe Belmont ,Victoria Park.

And any where near the University anything for rent would be as scarce as hens teeth . As would be the rich parts like Nedlands, Claremont, Peppermint Grove and Dalkeith

[daveh]

Col, thanks. One of them is working at the Royal Perth Hospital which I know is just north of the river. Looking it up: west of the hospital is sensibly probably a no-go while to the east is Maylands and Ashfield. However knowing them they will be looking west,

[col]

Working at RPH the best chioce would be around the Northern suburbs / North Perth.
looking west some very nice spots down by the coast..all the way up from Fremantle..Cottesloe, City beach,Scarborough...but finding something for rent is another story.

[pompiere]

It wasn't until reading this thread that I understood that Col is in Western Austrailia and not Washington, which is also abreviated WA.

We have the much larger cousin to your dog, an Alaskan Malimute. She loves to be out in the winter playing in the snow, but she also love going in the water to cool off in the summer.

[daveh]

Jul 27, 2012 20:05:06 GMT -5 pompiere said:

It wasn't until reading this thread that I understood that Col is in Western Austrailia and not Washington, which is also abreviated WA.

That's always the problem with acronyms. The only people who know what an acronym means are those who know what it means. Then there is also the problem, as shown here, that an acronym can mean different things to different people.

At least WA seems to stand just for the two already mentioned. Some have a ridiculous number of possibilities. BDA for instance, in order of appearance in a Google search:
British Dental Association
British Dietetic Association
British Dyslexia Association
British Deaf Association
British Drilling Association
British Dragon Boat Racing Association
Brick Development Association
Broadcast Driver Architecture
Bomb damage assessment
Blu-ray Disc Association
Barnsley Development Agency
Biotherapy Development Association
British Dragon Association
Business Development Association
Business Development Advisers
Biodynamic Association
and several firms which have BDA as part of their name. There could be others.

[33dollars]

I like the third shot Col. It looks like your dog is on snow.

WA stands for sandgroper