Art Comes and Goes
Art flew into Adelaide on the 11th and left on the 19th. 
It was great to have him here, even if for only a week.
We spent the first couple days with Barry and Kay and their gaggle of tenants, including an overnight sortie to the Yorke Peninsula, one of the largest grain growing regions of the country. I had difficulty getting around my Canadian geographic up-bringing – vast fields of grain dropping off into craggy ocean coastlines just did not compute! Lots of fun. Lots of laughter. It is great to hear my sister-in-law laugh again.
The highlight of the excursion was a visit to the Wattle Point Wind Farm at Edithburgh.
55 windmills standing 68m tall churn day and night generating 91 MW of clean, green, renewable energy (Google “Wattle Point Wind Farm” for more information). From a distance they are elegant. Up close they are mesmerizing. Standing under them they swoosh. Australia outpaces every other nation in the world in per capita greenhouse gas production. Canada and the United States take second and third places. Why are we not doing more with clean, renewable energy sources? And after seeing the Great Barrier Reef, the question is all of the more pertinent. More on that below . . .
Wednesday we flew up to Cairns (pronounced “Cannes”) in Queensland.
It was great to have him here, even if for only a week. We spent the first couple days with Barry and Kay and their gaggle of tenants, including an overnight sortie to the Yorke Peninsula, one of the largest grain growing regions of the country. I had difficulty getting around my Canadian geographic up-bringing – vast fields of grain dropping off into craggy ocean coastlines just did not compute! Lots of fun. Lots of laughter. It is great to hear my sister-in-law laugh again.
The highlight of the excursion was a visit to the Wattle Point Wind Farm at Edithburgh.
55 windmills standing 68m tall churn day and night generating 91 MW of clean, green, renewable energy (Google “Wattle Point Wind Farm” for more information). From a distance they are elegant. Up close they are mesmerizing. Standing under them they swoosh. Australia outpaces every other nation in the world in per capita greenhouse gas production. Canada and the United States take second and third places. Why are we not doing more with clean, renewable energy sources? And after seeing the Great Barrier Reef, the question is all of the more pertinent. More on that below . . . 
Wednesday we flew up to Cairns (pronounced “Cannes”) in Queensland.
posted by He's Not Home (again) at 1:14 am
1 Comments:
Hi Alan,
Todays update was fascinating. There is a verse somewhere in the new testament about creation groaning for itself, for the renewal of the earth.......can't remember where but it is something that i remember from theology class....that it is not just people who will be renewed in the apocolype but all creation. Anyway, on a lighter note, i think the windchill is about -19 today, so your pictures are invigorating! Stay well...keep the words and pictures coming.....
gg
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