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Do you like getting to the bottom of things? Or are you sometimes over the top in wanting to know what you’re over the top of? Where would the light at the other end of your tunnel come from? Do you ever wonder what on earth is on the other side?
No, I’m not being philosophical. I have merely made the interesting discovery that Down Under, as far as residents of the UK are concerned, is actually a large stretch of splash somewhere well southeast of New Zealand. Australia’s Up Over, on the other hand, is a splosh slap in the middle of the North Atlantic.
In fact, if you bore straight through the earth from any number of locations, you are more likely than not to find yourself in one or another ocean. Far South America does have Asia as a destination, but that is one of the exceptions.
Here is the link to the fascinating livephysics Google Earth-type site which enables you to pop through the earth from any location to the directly opposite side. Have fun with it. I did! © Colonialist August 2013 (WordPress)
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For some reason, it took forever (longer than 3 minutes) and the globe still hadn’t loaded. I’m curious, but, heck, I can’t wait forever! I’d probably get stuck in the darned tunnel anyway! 😉
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Okay, I persevered and was rewarded with the knowledge that I would fall into the India Ocean far off the south west coast of Australia–or would that be the north east because everything is upside down and reversed on that side of the equator? Whatever. I don’t like to swim that far from land. And I bet that there are giant sea monsters trolling for dizzy blondes splashing around down under…
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Ah, that’s more like where you were supposed to start swimming! No, the equator doesn’t change any of that! 🙂
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Must’ve been heavy traffic going boring.
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I drowned well east and a bit south of Madagascar.
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It seems most people who try it wind up very damp!
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Thanks for the comment. Yes, pictures of motor cats in Namibia would be awesome 😉
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In fact, you have inspired me to start reposting the series from my old blog. It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips.
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I am going to enjoy this thanks
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‘Tis a fun toy!
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As a child, i really believed that digging down into the beach sand would get me to Australia. The lies that parents tell! 😉
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I bet they implicitly believed it was true!
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Hahaha. Most probably, but I think they just wanted to keep me occupied and out of mischief. 🙂
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Would have served them right, then, if you’d come back playing the didgeredoo and with a pet kangaroo in tow!
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😆 “Serve ’em right, mate.”
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Haha! Very boring.
I landed in the Indian Ocean and immediately started swimming for your shoreline. Then one of your whales swallowed me whole and spit me out onto Madagascar. I’m hanging about with King Julius.
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See how exciting things get when you travel via blog? 🙂
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Whahahaha! Now that was lots of fun Col! I have to remember then to get diving suits because we will end up near Hawaii in the North Pacific Ocean..hehehehe, but I must say, I like the idea of Hawaii being close. Must be because I always wanted to go there. Now I am going to dig more holes and see if I start on another place here in Harties, I might just end up in Hawaii totally! LOL!
Thanks for sharing my friend. 😀 *big hugs*
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And Hawaii not? 🙂
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LOL!
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I popped out in the Indian Ocean. Best not dig that hole!
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Shows what a hole lot of water there is on earth!
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Now that was such fun! Thanks Col!
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Pleasure indeed! It would be interesting to see where various people had made their holes …
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Hehe! Pawesome! =^.^=
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I forgot to check where you would come out! Well-equipped for an ocean, though, aren’t you?
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Thanks for the link! If I dig from Toti I’d end up in the Pacific between San Francisco and Hawaii.
If I dig from my town in Holland I’d end up just south of New Zealand, also in the water!
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You need to pack your water wings, either way!
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I tried, but couldn’t make it work. Start digging from NW France brought me to the Norwegian Sea every time, so I must have hit an undiggable bit of rock somewhere.
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How on earth do you manage to DO that? I come out about the same distance east of New Zealand as NZ is east of Oz. Does it work for other places?
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🙂
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Where did you emerge?
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On the red brick road
🙂
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Thanks for the link, I really dig it! You totally rock, not boring at all! 😉
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Heehee!
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I must warn the dogs ….
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They won’t believe you!
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That is a fun one!
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When I think of how long I have totally believed that Australia was the exact opposite side to the UK!
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