Where Is This? - Page 53

infinite monkey · 12-13-2011, 10:19 AM

Oh, I thought lamp knew. I did a 'save as' and saw the Bundaberg.

glatt · 12-13-2011, 10:20 AM

Well, I suppose Spex gets it, but really IM deserves huge props for the Wyland thing. And Lamplighter would have gotten it if he had said it.

infinite monkey · 12-13-2011, 10:22 AM

Anyone who googled whale wall would have come up with Wyland. (A lot of alliteration for anxious anchors placed in powerful posts.) I just did it faster.

Wyland and Whales, hand in fin.

Lamplighter · 12-13-2011, 10:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Bundaberg, Australia

Still don't know where it is !

We need a war with Australia so I can learn the geography of Oz.

infinite monkey · 12-13-2011, 10:26 AM

No, dude. They have boomerangs!

glatt · 12-13-2011, 10:30 AM

Bundaberg is a neat little town known primarily to me as the home of the Bundaberg rum distillery, which you can tour. It's also the home to the catamarans that will take you out to one of the southern most islands in the Great Barrier Reef. Fun for snorkeling. The town itself doesn't offer much of anything though. The place is surrounded by sugar cane fields as far as the eye can see. They make rum with it, you see.

infinite monkey · 12-13-2011, 10:41 AM

I would love to visit there. Someday. (Sigh)

Lamplighter · 12-13-2011, 10:45 AM

Sorry, I posted the wrong map above...

I suppose it was settled by Germans, or German want-to-be's

I did manage a trip to Melbourne and Sydney years ago, and really enjoyed my hosts.
A couple of them still called England "home", even though they had never been there.
I did learn a lot while there, but still don't have the names pinned into their (special) maps.

Spexxvet · 12-13-2011, 10:55 AM

ou est?

Sundae · 12-13-2011, 10:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by glatt

Bundaberg is a neat little town known primarily to me as the home of the Bundaberg rum distillery, which you can tour.

Our Australian rellies sent us some Bundaberg rum. It was the roughest thing any of us had ever tasted (well, at the time)
As Dad said, the clue should be in the suggestions on the back of the bottle - drink with MILK?!

It's possible it was over-proof rum or somesuch.

Anyway, after their grumbles, I pitched up about a week later, offering to give it another try.
No, sorry. All drunk up.
So it might have been rough - but not so rough they couldn't choke it down!

(FTR, Mum and Dad were used to white rum, which might have been the difference)

glatt · 12-13-2011, 11:03 AM

It was very rough, as I recall. We got a sample at the end of our tour and had the option of buying some in the gift store, but I declined. It was yucky. But the process was neat. They get the molasses from the sugar cane and then ferment it, of course. The only thing you could actually see was the molasses making process. But the molasses were different from cooking molasses. Thinner, runnier, with weird bubbles and scum. Smelled good though.

Spexxvet · 12-13-2011, 11:05 AM

Mmmmmm, rum scum.

infinite monkey · 12-13-2011, 11:06 AM

Yo ho ho, and a bottle o'...

Gravdigr · 12-14-2011, 06:17 AM

...mole asses?

Lamplighter · 12-14-2011, 09:46 AM

@Spex:: It's a beautiful building, but so far "nada".

Can I get 1 point for finding the rear entrance ?

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Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	Mmmmmm, rum scum. __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

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12-14-2011, 09:46 AM	#795
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	@Spex:: It's a beautiful building, but so far "nada". Can I get 1 point for finding the rear entrance ? Attached Images

12-13-2011, 10:19 AM	#781
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Oh, I thought lamp knew. I did a 'save as' and saw the Bundaberg.

12-13-2011, 10:20 AM	#782
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Well, I suppose Spex gets it, but really IM deserves huge props for the Wyland thing. And Lamplighter would have gotten it if he had said it.

12-13-2011, 10:22 AM	#783
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Anyone who googled whale wall would have come up with Wyland. (A lot of alliteration for anxious anchors placed in powerful posts.) I just did it faster. Wyland and Whales, hand in fin.

12-13-2011, 10:26 AM	#785
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	No, dude. They have boomerangs!

12-13-2011, 10:30 AM	#786
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	Bundaberg is a neat little town known primarily to me as the home of the Bundaberg rum distillery, which you can tour. It's also the home to the catamarans that will take you out to one of the southern most islands in the Great Barrier Reef. Fun for snorkeling. The town itself doesn't offer much of anything though. The place is surrounded by sugar cane fields as far as the eye can see. They make rum with it, you see.

12-13-2011, 10:41 AM	#787
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	I would love to visit there. Someday. (Sigh)

12-13-2011, 11:03 AM	#791
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	It was very rough, as I recall. We got a sample at the end of our tour and had the option of buying some in the gift store, but I declined. It was yucky. But the process was neat. They get the molasses from the sugar cane and then ferment it, of course. The only thing you could actually see was the molasses making process. But the molasses were different from cooking molasses. Thinner, runnier, with weird bubbles and scum. Smelled good though.

12-13-2011, 11:06 AM	#793
infinite monkey Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Mar 2011 Posts: 13,002	Yo ho ho, and a bottle o'...

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