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Running 4000 miles from the Andes to the Ocean, The Amazon carries a fifth of all the river water on the planet. Learn more about the mighty Amazon river and its weird and wonderful inhabitants in this brilliant wildlife video from BBC nature show ‘Wild South America’.

Visiting the Amazon, Rio, Iguassu Falls, Buenos Aires, Lima, Cuzco, Machu Picchu, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Andes

Some cool Australia images:

British Airways Concorde Jet (Registration G-BOAD) and Sydney Bus Museum AEC Regal III 352 at Sydney Airport, New South Wales, Australia.

Image by express000

Photo taken on 12 October, 1996.

British Airways Concorde Jet (Registration G-BOAD) and Sydney Bus Museum AEC Regal III 352 at Sydney Airport, New South Wales, Australia.

It was just pure chance that a Concorde Airliner was visiting Australia and I happened to be there on a ground visit with friends from the nearby Bus Museum. From memory a Concorde would come to Australia about once a year on a charter basis, I guess for those that could afford the additional charges.

Now very historic since this type of Aircraft is now no longer operational.

The bus is from the Sydney Bus and Truck Museum which is located in Sydney about 6 kilometres south of the Central Business District. The bus body was built on a British made AEC chassis by the Commonwealth Engineering Company in Sydney.

It entered service with the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board in the Southern Capital in the year 1952. It lived a very long life and was finally withdrawn from service in 1980 after 28 years of continuous every day service.

The bus is fully restored and sees occasional use as a vintage bus. On this day it was used to ferry a group of transport enthusiasts around the non public areas of the airport for inspection of items of aviation interest.

National Museum Of Australia

Image by Sam Ilić

"Our hope for the National Museum of Australia was the making of a place in both visible and invisible space. At first we imagined as if a kind of Platonic tangle like an ideal knot, like a new cloud, like a material epistemology, like that theory of everything, like a shadow, like a promise made visible. We liked to think that the story of Australia was not one, but many tangled together. Not an authorized version but a puzzling confluence; not merely the resolution of difference but it’s wholehearted embrace.

We hoped to make a place vividly local, rooted in Walter Burley Griffin’s garden city, rooted in the local country, but also we hoped to make something projective, to make a sign to mark our longing. Instead of any singular entity we envisaged a series of intense adjacencies, like puzzle pieces, as if testing plausibility, as if each became an evocative typology, as if each belonged to another language, encouraging translation, encouraging hope in an exegesis of promise. "

By Ashton Raggatt McDougall. Robert Peck von Hartel Trethowan. Architects.

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Lifeguard at Bondi Beach Australia

Image by PB-PSBear

Lifeguard at Bondi Beach Australia in wetsuit and orange cap

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