Re: 7 Words That Dogs Can Understand (And 4 That No Dog Can)

On 14/03/25 17:03, Bertel Lund Hansen wrote:

Peter Moylan wrote:
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but by now lots of towns have introduced their Big Things. In
Hexham, just near Newcastle, there's a horrible-looking Big
Mosquito, in recognition of the denizens of the Hexham Swamp[1].

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"Big Mosquito, Hexham" will find it in Google Maps.

Meanwhile, Google Maps has reminded me that the swamp is officially
called the Hunter Wetlands National Park. It's a largish swamp,
stretching from Hexham to some of the suburbs of Newcastle, and
including much of Kooragang Island, a large island that separates the
Hunter River into two arms.
Newcastle University is adjacent to the swamp, and the engineering
complex is the most adjacent of all. When we first moved to that campus
the Hexham Greys, a large species of mosquito, were a major pest. Some
years later their numbers went down, possibly because of drought. A
dozen or so years ago I had a house only a short block from the swamp. I
didn't have a mosquito problem, but I did have to watch out for snakes.
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Peter Moylan       peter@pmoylan.org    http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW