Melbourne & Royal Botanic Gardens - Victoria

Perfect signature and superb coffee!!

Glorious Flowering Gum – enormous gum nuts!



St Kilda Post Office 


Grass Tree (Xanthorrhoea malacophylla)
 
Pencil Pine far left, Banya Banya, and another Grass Tree

Brush Box blossom


Filtered light relief on a hot day

Lovely geranium ‘ Sea Spray’ used as ground cover – garden origin!



Pear delight from Aviv in Elsternwick

Space memories

4th October 1957 - The day the Sputnik 1  was launched, I was in East Anglia, on my way to work on the Burwell and District bus and it’s passengers were talking about nothing else, imitating its radio pulses by going ‘beep beep’ to one another!


20th July 1969 - The night for us in Australia; as we listened to Astronaut Neil Armstrong’s voice during his first steps on the Moon’s surface. We were camping under a star studded sky, south of Darwin.

15th December 2013 - The early morning, hearing that the Chinese had sent a robot onto the moon. We were camped at Williamstown Caravan park  South Australia


Jade Rabbit

An awesome Milky Way - Southern hemisphere from Sagittarius to The Southern Cross

Artist – Zlatkowski

Following the meandering River Murray – South Australia

 

 

Purnong Ferry crossing – we found that all these little ferries provide a 24hr free service

Tranquillity on the  Murray

East of Purnong Ferry crossing

‘The Bend’ – River Murray

Little Corella’s ! Noisy, yet music compared to the sulphur crested cockatoo

Swan Reach Ferry – 24hr service!

Camping next the River Murray at  Tenbury – Hunter Reserve,  Swan Reach

Concrete Loo approx 2.5m dia with flush toilet and sink inside – clean and spacious!

Campsite viewed from Reserve – Black Box River Gum and salt bush in foreground

 

 

Pelican cruising on the Murray yet we never saw them catch a single fish.

The mighty River Murray – Third longest navigable river after the Amazon and the Nile! The Murray is continuously navigable for 1986 km from Goolwa to Yarrawonga – some journey!

 

Calder Ferry crossing – another little ferry operating 24hr service and one can ring at night if the ferry is stationed across the river. However there is a bill waiting to be passed that would see the end of this ferry service and many like it. 

Graeme Claxton Reserve near the ferry crossing

Young Sand Monitor near river bank – these grow up to 1.6m in length

Another clean roomy concrete loo!

See!

Narrung Jetty campsite – South Australia 04-12-2013

Rainbow on our arrival at Narrung Jetty that is much used by local fishermen

Wet, wild windy night camp!  followed by another rainbow next morning

The original loo – concrete construction and efficient.

The ‘Dorothy M’ cable boat, moored next to Narrung Ferry crossing

Narrung Ferry Crossing – These little ferry’s operate a 24hrs service!

Cousin Sonja Hoffmann was born at  Meringie (south of Narrung) in 1951!

Point Malcolm Lighthouse – The only inland lighthouse in Australia and also the smallest at 7m tall.It was constructed to mark the narrow passage between Lake Albert and Lake Alexandrina..  First operated in 1878 until 1931 and its lighthouse keepers were self sufficient, even selling extra crops. They stored perishables in a small cave until a boat called to transport them to other settlements..