More recent Travel

 As Tuesday was our only chance at the Queen Vic Markets we were up and at them early.  This was not a contender for Bird A Day (a mynah is reserved for a day of desperation in Canberra). Spot the disconnect! I'm not sure how these sell - but can pick the target market - and am astonished at the price.  This has been passed on to the diving community in Mallacoota who are starting up the industry. Apparently urchins have a very short shelf life when fresh. Out to the Western Treatment Plant, continuing to marvel at the mess of road works to the West of the West Gate Bridge.  I wonder if they will ever finish this - in the 2+ years we have been using this road nothing seems to have changed! Anyhow, got the WTP and very soon after getting in saw a flock of possible sparrows.  The heck they were: Zebra Finches, which will be hard to beat for Bird of the Day.  They didn't hang about for photos!  We finally got to Ryans Swamp but it looked difficult to get ...

 The aim of going to Melbourne is essentially to see family and that occupied most of Labour Day.  There was some mention of the Moomba Parade but that filled me with horror.  Apart from the sheer number of people the COVID virus load would be massive .  So we met at the Nature Playground in Royal Park (behind the Children's Hospital). There were quite a lot of birds around, but little cooperation with photography (especially as I had left my camera behind and was using my phone).  A Musk Lorikeet is indicated by the arrow A lot of noise from the Noisy Miners announced the arrival of a Peregrine Falcon.  My assumption is that it was one of the birds that nest in Collins St.  This is the best I could do for a photo. The city skyline. As we walked away the older houses on Gatehouse St. Parkville (a suburb I had never of before) were interesting to look at.  Lace iron work and brick patterns. Chinmeys Identical semidetached houses, but apparently bui...

This covers the last day of our trip to Dunkeld and is almost completely devoted to the drive back to Mallacoota.  We rose from our beds promptly and did a short stroll around the walled garden, packed the car and headed off.  There was a small diversion to drop the photo album we had been lent back in the meter box at the Catholic Church. We set off at pretty much exactly 0800 hours with Polly (we were using Google Maps rather than the Mazda system) suggesting we'd be home by 1710.  The drive along the Glenelg Highway to Streatham was uneventful apart from getting foggy near Streatham.  Once we turned North the only excitement was the number of wind turbines.  As we approached those photographed on the way down  we could see a lot more that had been out of sight heading South.  Frances did a count and concluded that it was over 100 turbines in a number of farms. As we approached Melbourne Polly asked if we wished to switch to a faster route as there w...