deborahb » swine flu http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog Author, writer, malcontent. Reader, procrastinator, humourist, employee, raconteur, cynic, commentator, introvert, daydreamer, sceptic, idealist, loner, philosopher, sharp shooter. ... Ok, not sharp shooter. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:44:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dawn of a new era http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog/2009/06/dawn-of-a-new-era/ http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog/2009/06/dawn-of-a-new-era/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:11:00 +0000 deborahb http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog/?p=232 I’ve never been considered ‘an early adopter’, & so it’s only THIS year that I’ve gotten me one of them new-fangled phones with the cameras in them. (What’s next? Microwaves with clocks?!)

It’s not a great camera, particularly in low light, but one thing it does have: portability.

In today’s unexpected adventures, a photo of the Pacific Dawn docked in Sydney. Newly cleared of swine flu & finally allowed to disembark its passengers and (most of) its crew, it squats between office blocks above the backstreets of the city.

Pacific Dawn in Sydney, 1 June 2009

For seven days the Pacific Dawn was a symbol of the swine flu crisis, adrift off Australia’s east coast and unable to dock for fear of spreading the virus.
– SMH

]]> http://deborahbiancotti.net/blog/2009/06/dawn-of-a-new-era/feed/ 0