Odd Bits about the Moon & Days 9½ to 12

Mapping:

Mapping is a time consuming occupation at best but I can’t ever begin to understand the hardship the early map makers on our planet had to endure.  I suppose at the very least they were standing on their task not remote from it.  The accuracy of the early Cartographers is really amazing.  You know when I was in the R.A.N. (Royal Australian Navy) in the early sixties, 1963 or there about, one of our assignments was to travel up the east coast, mainly the Great Barrier Reef area and check out chart entries made by Captain James Cook and others of that early time.  Now they didn’t have a lot to start with and the only entries that we could not verify were these pertaining to ‘Dirty Water’ or patches there of and a shifting sand quay or two.  Now given the time lapse from the late 1700’s to 1963 I reckon that’s not a bad effort. 

IDLE REMINISCENCE AND DAY 8-9 ON THE MOON’S TERMINATOR.

Hi folks!  You know, talking about the Moon and its affect on the weather (in Winter) in the land of my childhood, northern New South Wales, it seemed to me at the time, the clearer the nights got the bigger the Moon phases got and the thicker and colder the frost became.  In those days (please put me back) in the late 1940’s and 50’s when we young ones set traps for Bunnies (rabbits) for both meat to eat and skins to sell (three of us would set around 100-120 traps every day and run them 2-3 times a night).  The Bunnies came out to socialize a lot more on Full Moon nights than they did at other times.  I suppose daddy bunny could see mummy bunny