Satellite photo

I was browsing the Bureau of Meteorology website and found this lovely image from 5:30am Friday morning, right during the middle of our big dump of rain. Mackay is somewhere under that big mass of white over the north-central Queensland coast.



Notice you can already see trouble brewing off the north-west coast of WA.

Image acknowledgement: Satellite image originally processed by the Bureau of Meteorology from the geostationary satellite MTSAT-1R operated by the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Townsville photos

Just a few images of Townsville for you…

The view from our motel window. (Mt Stuart in background.)

Magnetic Island from the beach (The Strand).

Magnetic Island again, from Castle Hill. (City in foreground.)

The wierd colours are entirely false: The image was taken through an infra-red filter (which is almost opaque black to the eye, but lets infra-red light through), and the colours are artefacts of the camera's white-balance algorithm.

A cool sign we found beside the road going up to the Mt Stuart lookout.