Random thoughts and observations
We drove 550km from Mount Gambier to Moe today to spend the weekend before Christmas with my mother. We stopped just over an hour from Mount Gambier between Coleraine and Hamilton in Western Victoria to see the Wannon Falls. The falls were created by lava flows that surged upstream to the Wannon River. They feature [...]
This is a reasonable picture of Michael shaping up for a header during his soccer tournament at Warrnambool today. The Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ3 is a good all-round camera with a 10X optical zoom. It’s not ideal for sport, but if I take enough photos I usually capture one that’s okay. Michael’s team finished second in [...]
I’m currently in Warrnambool, about 200km east of Mount Gambier, for a junior soccer tournament tomorrow. I have all four of the kids with me; Juliet couldn’t make it because of work. We decided to arrive the day before the tournament and have a look around, rather than rush the trip in one day on [...]
I managed to spend some time in Melbourne during my flying visit to Victoria. Melbourne is a great city and its public areas have improved immensely since I was a child 30 years ago. Docklands is now an attractive cosmopolitan residential and dining precinct where there was once shipping. I walked from my hotel in [...]
I’ve returned from a few days visiting Victoria. I caught up with my parents at Moe and made a short trip to Mt St Gwinear. Western Australia doesn’t have any alpine country and I miss it. I haven’t been to the Stirling Ranges yet, but they’re as close as it gets in this state and [...]
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