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Date: Apr 20, 2008, 12:25:35
Category: Photography -> Transportation

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Tools used: Fuji FinePix S3000
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Magic Bus

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Finally got my camera working, after several months. And discovered a bunch of photos from New Year - when I was up in Queensland at the Woodford Folk Festival!

This bus was an old wreck that has obviously been sitting in the campsite grounds for years, rusting away. A bunch of campers comandeered it on about the second day my friend and I were at the festival - the jolly roger was their addition. I imagine they stayed a lot drier in the bus than anyone in the surrounding tents did. God, that week was wet. :razz:

:razz:

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Posted by prosepetals at Apr 20, 2008, 1:30:35 PM

Love the pirate flag on the top... :grin:

:grin:

Posted by beruthiel at Apr 21, 2008, 10:54:44 AM [Parent]

:giggle:

Alas, the inhabitants weren't *actually* piratical. Would've made for a more interesting photo, if they had been... :razz:

:razz:

Posted by prosepetals at Apr 21, 2008, 11:28:53 AM [Parent]

Aye...aaargh...... :XD:

:XD:

Posted by rwirtz at Apr 20, 2008, 2:19:12 PM

Very inventinve and great use of leftover Volkswagen Type 2. Coll shot, Beru :smile:

:smile:

Posted by beruthiel at Apr 21, 2008, 10:59:33 AM [Parent]

Hmm... I'm not so sure, actually. 'Twas a lot bigger than your average Kombi van; double-decker, for a start.

But yes, it was inventive. :grin:

:grin:

Posted by rwirtz at Apr 21, 2008, 7:35:13 PM [Parent]

I think it's the bottom of a double decker bus and two tops of two Kombi vans (back to back).
Very inventive, not sure if it's road-worthy, though :lauhging:

Posted by beruthiel at Apr 22, 2008, 1:24:25 AM [Parent]

Ohhhhh... *takes another look*...

Hey, I'll bet you're right! :laughing:

:laughing:

That's... a remarkable kind of hybrid!

Posted by rwirtz at Apr 22, 2008, 6:26:13 AM [Parent]

Remarkable is one word :laughing:

:laughing:

(<-- this time I did it right *sigh*)

Posted by valys at Apr 20, 2008, 7:18:34 PM

What a great li'l make-shift camper! :laughing:

:laughing:

I love the shoe sticking out the window!

Posted by beruthiel at Apr 21, 2008, 11:03:34 AM [Parent]

:laughing:

... yes, probably in the hopes that the shoes would dry. And I can tell you - they would only have gotten wetter!

Posted by valys at Apr 21, 2008, 4:35:22 PM [Parent]

:laughing:

Posted by fledgist at Apr 24, 2008, 4:16:09 PM

It rains in Australia?

Posted by beruthiel at May 7, 2008, 5:43:34 AM [Parent]

:laughing:

June last year, my mum lost her car in a flash flood. Does that give you some idea? :wink2:

:wink2:

Posted by fledgist at May 11, 2008, 1:58:31 PM [Parent]

I suppose so. I thought it all looked like this: [link]

:razz:

:razz:

Posted by beruthiel at May 12, 2008, 9:45:29 AM [Parent]

:XD:

!

But of course! I walk (jump?) my pet kangaroo past that thing every morning.

Posted by fledgist at May 12, 2008, 1:47:34 PM [Parent]

My youngest brother, when he worked in WA, made a pilgrimage to see it actually.

Posted by beruthiel at May 18, 2008, 7:21:59 AM [Parent]

Ohhh, fantastic. :grin:

:grin:

I'd not only like to see Uluru, but I'd also love to visit other parts of the Australian desert. My uncle and his family lived in a remote Indigenous community for a number of years, and the way he speaks (and writes poetry) about the desert... well, one day I'm going to have to go and see it for myself.

Do you mind if I ask what your brother was working at in WA? The first thing that sprang to my mind was "mining", but I am probably way off the mark.

Posted by fledgist at May 18, 2008, 2:25:17 PM [Parent]

Not too far off. He works in the oil industry, travelling to exotic locations all over the world. He was offered a long-term job in WA, but his wife didn't want to live there (she felt more comfortable in Scotland).

Posted by beruthiel at May 22, 2008, 11:16:29 AM [Parent]

Ahh, right. I suppose the main reason people move to WA is for industry of one sort or another.

(I've never been to WA or to Scotland... and yet I think I can understand his wife's preferences. :giggle:

:giggle:

)

Posted by fledgist at May 22, 2008, 6:45:49 PM [Parent]

Hers have a lot to do with Perth being full of migrants from South Africa who left when things changed in 1994.

Posted by segundus at Apr 26, 2008, 4:29:11 PM

Haha! It has a pirat flag. Gotta love that :yay2:

:yay2:

Posted by beruthiel at May 7, 2008, 5:43:54 AM [Parent]

:giggle:

Posted by thedarkermist at Apr 27, 2008, 9:04:15 PM

lol...wow...what can I say?
Other than thats pretty cool, I would def do something like that, if I found a bus who's magic has gone :grin:

:grin:

Posted by beruthiel at May 7, 2008, 5:44:42 AM [Parent]

:laughing:

Personally, I think they managed to give it a whole *new* magic.

Posted by mirrin at May 6, 2008, 1:25:30 AM

I just love the feel of this piece. It makes me want to own one of those old busses myself! Superb! :yay:

:yay:

Posted by beruthiel at May 7, 2008, 5:45:36 AM [Parent]

Oh, I relate... :giggle:

:giggle:

I find cars deadly boring on the whole, but old Kombi vans are something else.

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