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We have a guest post today from Wolf Cocklin. Wolf’s the bloke I took the idea from for putting a few of my driving videos up on the web.
This picture is from his 2009 trip along one of Australia’s most famous routes, the Oodnadatta Track. As well as today’s Wreck Of The Week picture Wolf also has a blog post up of this trip at his blog “Insert Clever Title Here” which includes video of the 166km trip condensed into 6 minutes.
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Who would have thought pictures of broken down old wrecks would attract so much interest.
Today I even have a guest poster, Bill Arnold a pharmacist from Canberra with a few pics he took on the Oodnadatta Track in 2005.
“2005, The track from Arckaringa (Painted Desert) to the Oodnadatta Track. Called the Moon Plain or some such. I think it is an Armstrong Sidley (British). ”
Can anyone confrm this?
Oodnadatta Track
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One day 7 years ago sitting in Alice Springs with a German mate who I met while cycling the Oodnadatta Track (yes really he was – he’s German!) we brain stormed what name I could use as a business and brand name as I continued to work in rural and remote Australia.
When the breeze picks up (and there is always a breeze) the dust is sucked in every time you breathe. It is also on nearly everything you cook.
if you want more on who is BiteTheDust then as well as my “About the Blog” you can find out why everyone calls me Robbo. My main website will have more detail about me one day!
I have also started another sort of blog thingy with things I like and a few tales not related to bush life. My Pleasant Sunday Afternoon posts have photos or stories of times out bush
The following came from The Phrase Finder. I didn’t realise it came from Homer! But this sums me up. Classical!
Meaning
Fall to the ground, wounded or dead.
Origin
Given the many B-feature cowboy movies in which the bad guys, or occasionally the pesky redskins, would ‘bite the dust’, we might expect this to be of American origin. It isn’t though. The same notion is expressed in the earlier phrase ‘lick the dust’, from the Bible, where there are several uses of it, including Psalms 72 (King James Version), 1611:
“They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him and his enemies shall lick the dust.”
The earliest citation of the ‘bite the dust’ version is from 1750 by the Scottish author Tobias Smollett , in his Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane:
“We made two of them bite the dust, and the others betake themselves to flight.”
Homer’s epic poem The Iliad was written in around 700 BC. That was in Greek of course. It was translated into English in the 19th century by Samuel Butler and his version contains a reference to ‘bite the dust’ in these lines:
“Grant that my sword may pierce the shirt of Hector about his heart, and that full many of his comrades may bite the dust as they fall dying round him.”
Whether that can be counted as an 8th century BC origin for ‘bite the dust’ is open to question and some would say that it was Butler’s use of the phrase rather than Homer’s.
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It is possibly a bit pretentious as I have only been blogging since August. And regularly blogging since mid December with only 71 posts. But everyone else has been doing it.
Consider it showing my newer subscribers some earlier “quality” posts.
So my ten most popular posts are:
1. “A Drive in The Country: It took this truck driver and his truck 18 hours. Bogged three times in sand. That’s a lot of wheels to dig out. And some pretty big holes. I guess that is something to look forward to as I drive out next week”.
2. When Remote Australia and Mining Australia meet: This surprised me coming so high in the ranking. My view on how mining companies in Australia seem to disregard and damage the remote communities near their sites.
3. A Little Bit of Rain: With plenty of photos and video it showed what Central Australia can be like after rain.
4. Remote Weather Report was a report I sent out to people who may be travelling in our area which I later posted. Describes what can happen when heavy rain hits – particularly for a very mobile population
5. Can Bush Tucker Reduce the Burden of Heart Disease and Diabetes? Here I commented on an Article in the West Australian Newspaper and talked about food and prices out bush.
6. Kunmarnanya my Lord, Kunmarnanya. I’m known as Robbo almost everywhere I go. I started using my nickname for cultural reasons. This explains why.
7. A Snake in the Hand is Worth…. is a little story about a snake on my fence: I race to the gate and instead of placing my hand on the expected tubular frame it landed on something sinuous, scaly and muscular.
8. Oodnadatta Track is a Pleasant Sunday Afternoon story with a picture of a stop sign in the desert. Believe me. That is all that is there.
9. You Have Peak Hour Traffic and I Have…… was a video looking at the traffic obstacles I have on my way to work. Camels and lots of them.
10. CRANA Opens its Doors where I commented on Council of Remote Area Nurses of Australia opening membership to other professions with some comments on other bodies representing those out bush.
Well that’s it for another year!
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