Seasonal Activities
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The majority of the forum members seem to come from the cold side of the globe. They might like to see what happens when a multicultural community marks the important Christian festival of Christmas, muddling in Yule, Diwali, New Year and the summer solstice.
So we braved the 25 degree night and travelled 40km in search of a few examples.
http://billiau.net/~liz/Christmas_06/page0.html
They are all hand-held with a digital camera capable of shake compensation - and a 2 sec exposure puts shake compensation to the test.
temperature
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thought i'd catch someone with the different temperature scales.
increases the fun no end
lovely warm night, but we still get cold ones even this month as we have a desert climate.
so far this month the min has been 10 and the max 41
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Love the photos! 40km? So...you're saying that you just took a drive around the block, then.
It's 10C/8C, right now, with a projected low of 6C/4C tonight. (San Diego gets the good weather, BTW.)
From the looks of things, I'm going to convince the wife that we're retiring to Oz.
My occupation?
Well, computer geek-stuff, mostly. I could tell you all about it; but, then I would have to delete you.
Just came back from Down Under
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Hi,
Just a few days ago I returned from visiting "the warm side of the globe" (Western Australia). I did see a lot of these houses too, dressed up with massive amounts (thousands) of decorative lights, elves and santa's.
Seeing Santa in shorts and slippers - and with very tanned legs- in a shopping centre convinced me that he's actually living in Ozzieland all year, not on the North Pole.
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Regards, Ko
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Seeing Santa in shorts and slippers - and with very tanned legs- in a shopping centre convinced me that he's actually living in Ozzieland all year, not on the North Pole.
Brrrrr!
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Hey Liz, thank you for the pictures. Yes, braving the "cold" of 25 degrees is a challenge. Fortunately, you had the shake compensation on the camera. Wait a minute! 25 degrees Celsius? That would be 77 degrees Fahrenheit! Sounds about like temperatures here in San Diego. But at the moment the temp. is 12 degrees C (54 deg. F). Now THAT'S COLD
Enjoy the Summer Solstice!
Jon
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