Toto Africa.....
https://youtu.be/U1LB_OerHCE?si=qxYeQAw4Q1JegXkk
Howdy y'all .... Wassup?
This year as I have Red Herring in Sydney harbor already, I'm thinking to drop an anchor near the harbor bridge and watch the tall ship display between Sydney harbor bridge and the opera house. Spectators not allowed on the water on the tall ship side of the harbor bridge, ie., the opera house side, during certain parts of the day. In the evening there will be another event near the opera house on the water so maybe I can bring Red Herring in closer then.
Thinking to bring the urn with my mother's ashes, supposedly, in them, although who knows what you get at funeral homes these days, maybe someone else's ashes. Thinking to drop those ashes near the bridge and keep the urn for my own ashes one day when I die.
I recall after my mother passed away in late July 2020, her best friend, a First Australian from the stolen generation came by with her daughter, that died of cancer the following year. And the daughter's partner who the mother, Marlene, my mother's friend, never liked much (ie., her son in law). Anyway in the end over the following few days I visited Marlene's little tribe who just happened to all be in town at the time notwithstanding their nomadic lifestyles. And distributed a lot of my mother's keepsakes to them like jewellery, silver jubilee fifty cents coins and special Australian coins like that. It was certainly a unique and eye opening experience as I normally never associated in close proximity with a fully functioning First Australian tribe*. But there's always a first time for everything. It was a kind of honour I suppose. I once got a guided tour of the largest Navy base in the united states (Norfolk Virginia) from a bird Colonel once shortly after 9/11. That was obviously an honour. I was a little taken aback perhaps when the Colonel asked me if I could shoot a man in the face in a general non specific speculative way, but he was an imposing fellow; some of his acquaintances died in the Pentagon on 9/11. Still an honour.
* One thing I remembered about this tribe was the photographs they kept on their walls of famous political events and protests and the like that they had attended in the 1970s or 1980s, perhaps when Goth Whitlam was in power. Similar to the invasion day protestors these days. I remember wondering if it could be possible that a famous Irish writer like James Joyce could be born into a First Australian family. I've also wondered if many First Australians from centuries ago could reincarnate into upstanding and well heeled Anglo Saxon families in Australia of long-standing good repute (ie., certain family members not the entire family). Sometimes the truth can be stranger than fiction, for a surety.
A few days later....
Aha
https://youtu.be/djV11Xbc914?si=BEpyDGj2uTWAqjNO
We left home around 1110am and a little late for the midday tender service to Red Herring at Balmain which meant we wouldn't catch the fighter jet flyover. Instead I stopped at 300 Burns Bay Rd to picnic by the bay there with the family. A few days earlier Alex and I tried to enter this bay after passing along Woolwich wharf and Riverview high School however we got stuck on the bottom at low tide and were conveniently rescued by some teenagers in a speed boat. A lady faraway was doing Tai Chi and I started mimicking her movements at the picnic area today 26th January 2026. It turned out she couldn't speak English so we started talking in Chinese and she said she'd been in Australia a total of seven years. Lived in Jilin province previously, in China. And had visited Dongying in Jilin although probably spent less time there than his Benjiness. No big deal just chatting away in Chinese then on to the marina to Red Herring and on to the harbor bridge where we passed numerous aforementioned tall ships. We did hear the fighter jets shortly before chatting with the lady from Jilin at 300 Burns Bay Rd. But we couldn't see them.
Aryton Senna dying 1994, not a Red Herring moment by any measure....
https://youtu.be/_DzwpvoPLLg?si=faBnloNcMQYSUX9r
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