Sydney turns red in huge dust storm

This you knows. The years travel fast, and time after time I've done the Tell. But this ain 't one body's Tell. It's the Tell of us all. And you got to listen it and 'member. 'Cause what you hears today, you got to tell the newborn tomorrow.

I's looking behind us now, into history back. I sees those of us that got the luck and started the haul for home, and I 'members how it lead us here and how we was heartful 'cause we seen what there once was. One look, and we knewed we'd got it straight. Those what had gone before had the knowin' and the doin' of things beyond our reckonin', even beyond our dreamin'.

Time counts and keeps countin'. And we knows now, finding the trick of what's been and lost ain't no easy ride. But that's our track. We got to travel it. And there ain't nobody knows where it's gonna lead.

Still and all, every night we does the Tell so that we 'member who we was and where we came from. But most of all we 'members the man who finded us, him that came the salvage. And we lights the city. Not just for him, but for all of them that are still out there. 'Cause we knows there'll come a night, when they sees the distant light, and they'll be coming home.

Zoos Warn Mad Max Landscapes are Probability: Caused By Climate Change
by Warren McLaren, Sydney on 10.20.08
Travel & Nature



The president of the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) says the type of barren landscapes shown in Australia's famous Mad Max movies could become a common reality because of global warming. This is according to a news report on the annual meeting of the WAZA, which is underway now at the Adelaide Zoo in South Australia. Professor McGregor Reid, also CEO of Chester Zoo in Northern England, went on to say “These films are kind of prescient, they give us some kind of glimpse of one horrible future that we don't certainly want to be heading towards and it's the job of the entire world conservation community - including zoos and aquarium - to help address these issues."

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