Hello.
I'm going to explain what a DONKEY VOTE is, and I'm also going to talk about a Tsunami that hit Sydney and also hit NZ in 1868.
But first I'm going to talk about what a DONKEY VOTE is, and no, it's not where a Donkey vote's for equal rights that we humans get.
The DONKEY VOTE is when the Candidates are put down on the Ballot from say, A to D, without the voter taking time to put them in the order that they really want to vote for them.
Now I'm going to talk about the Tsunami that hit NZ and Sydney in 1868.
In August 1868, an Earthquake that was 9.0, went off on the Peru–Chile border and caused a lot of damage.
After the Earthquake went off, it caused a massive Tsunami that hit NZ.
It caused a lot of damage and death on the Chatham Islands and Banks Peninsula.
When it reached Newcastle it, " Moved ships as heavy as 1000 tons to and fro" now, that's got to be a big Tsunami!
It even caused waves 5 feet high!
It also moved those 1000 tone ships on to sandbanks and wharves!
Imagine that, seeing a 1000 tone ship thrown on to a wharf as if a two year old through it into a toy box or something!
It snapped the ferry ropes in Sydney and made the ferry spin around.
It just shows you what kind of power Mother Nature can have.
And in Wollongong Harbour, the water fell 4 feet, and passers by took advantage and started picking up the Lobsters that had been caught in the open!
Adelaide had huge waves, too.
Talk about a free feed, it just shows that it wasn't that bad after all.
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, September 23, 2008
at 11:23 AM
and is filed under
learning
. You can follow any responses to this entry through the
comments feed
.
3 comments
I always thought that a donkey vote was one cast by a silly ass.
September 24, 2008 at 3:11 AM
Post a Comment
About Me
Tree of Happiness Award
Sites I Like
Recent Posts
Paleontology News
Archaeology News
Recent Comments
Live Traffic Feed
Archives
Categories
- Ada Tree
- Aliens
- Amazon tribe
- ancient
- anthropology
- anti-terrorist laws
- Anzac Day
- Anzac March
- April 25
- archaeology
- Art Deco
- Artemis Fowl
- Australia
- Australia Day
- Australian dinosaurs
- autism
- bird watching
- black holes
- Boer War
- books.
- brains
- Breaker Morant
- buildings
- Bush Aliens
- chants
- China.
- crazy Saturday
- cricket
- Cyber-Space boy
- dad
- digging
- dinosaurs
- Discovery channel
- Doctor Who
- drawing
- drop bear
- DS
- Easter island
- Edmund Blunden
- Europeans
- fiction
- Field Naturalists Club
- flint napping
- Freedom on the Wallaby
- fun
- fungi trip
- fungi. trip.fungus
- fungus
- Galileo.
- Gallipoli
- gem club
- gems
- geography
- geology
- grandad
- growing up too fast
- Hawthorn
- Henry Lawson
- Highway.
- history
- history channel
- history of voting
- HMAS Sydney
- Hobbits
- home schooling
- introduction
- joke
- land mines
- Lawn Bowls
- Lazy Wednesday
- learning
- lecture
- Leo
- life after people
- macbeth
- MAD
- mammals
- maps
- Mayan
- medical science
- Medieval Faire
- medievil
- megafauna
- Mentone
- Monsterquest
- mum
- Museum
- music
- National Geographic
- Ned Kelly
- Ned Kelly.
- New Zealand
- Pa
- pics
- Poems
- Pompeii
- pre-history
- railway museum
- railway museum.
- rats
- re-trial
- roman
- RSL
- Russian school
- sci fi
- science
- sea animals
- secret places
- ships
- short stories
- shows
- sick
- Silly Sunday
- solar system
- Sorrento
- speed
- spiders from hell
- sport
- Steven Hawking
- stone knapping
- Stonehenge
- story
- stuff
- Sunshine
- Super hero's
- talks
- Tassie Devil
- The Midnight Skaters
- the Scottish play
- Tourettes
- towns
- Train crash
- trains
- Tram Museum
- Treacle
- Trugo
- Two Men In A Trench
- unusual
- Vesuvius
- Victorian Premiers Reading Challenge
- Vietnam
- volcanoes
- Wattle Day
- weird
- Wonder-Cat
- work
- World Maths Day
- wreck
- WW1
- ww2