The world's biggest rock lobster from apparently extremely old lineage found there, a yard long. Only threat the platypus apparently. Interesting. Platypus while often scoffed by u.s. citizens as backwards turn out to have extremely sophisticated bills that use electricity to study environment.
When I was a kid I read the Raymond Feist 'Magician' novel, maybe more than one. I was always impressed with the main character's graduation from Magic school in the trans dimensional world he was brought to as a captive and slave:
Pug was cleansed of his memory by the teachers of the Assembly and after four years of training became a magician. He learned he was a gifted follower of the Greater Path, a magic unheard of upon Midkemia; Kulgan was a Lesser Path magician, the reason of his inability to teach Pug. Upon attaining the Grey Robes of a Great One, Pug was given the name Milamber. His teacher, Shimone, watched as Milamber passed his final test, standing upon a thin spire at the height of a storm while the history of the Empire of Tsuranuanni was revealed to him. There he was steeped in the first duty of a Great One, attaining the Black Robes: to serve the Empire. Milamber met his first friend in the assembly; Hochopepa, a shrewd magician who instructed Milamber in the pitfalls of Tsurani politics.
What was cool about it was the way he decided he was finished with something like a certain way of thinking which led to a kind of promotion for him.
Documentary on November 2018 Paradise, northern california forest fire. Ouch. We had a day around those dates (summer) where penrith (town I was born in) was the hottest place on the planet. Almost 50 degrees celsius (almost 120 fahrenheit). We were in the neighborhood and no internationally recognized weather station but my digital car thermometer was saying 50 (121+ fahrenheit). It was unquestionably the hottest weather I've felt. We had to go to the mall for air-conditioning. Crazy. And all that was a year before the crazy big bushfires in Australia. Planetary overpopulation. Unsustainable. Nature will fight back.
Strange to say my body is extremely accustomed to this kind of heat during those dates as I find it normal due to my childhood acclimatizing me for that. By comparison I had some 100 degrees plus days in Phoenix Arizona in July 2006 and I just felt like collapsing. Extremely hard to bear. The 120 degrees day in western sydney was just as bad, but a lot hotter.
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