Friday, March 30, 2007
The Desert GardenWednesday, March 28, 2007
Melbourne to Lakes Entrance, Sale, Bairnsdale...
Art Gallery Cafe overlooks the site of a once busy inland port on the Latrobe river, that connects to the ocean, now a marina.
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The open cut mine extends in a circle of 5 miles diameter or more across the whole valley like a moon-scape
Yallourn open-cut coal mine - locals still believe it is not polluting!
Sale Highway Sculpture `Red Sails in the Sunset’by International sculptor Viktor Cebergs. 2005
Bairnsdale roadside market - lots of plants and local produce - I bought a great T shirt for James - get a laugh if he wears it OS
Native animals and birds - Gang gangs, echidna, swans
Austtralian Native Black Swans. This little girl was very busy talking to the swans and seemed to think they would obey her!
Gang Gang Cockatoos at Brandy Creek - just a few miles north of Warragul
This shows how big these Gang Gang cockatoos are
Captive Cockatoo - was apparently hungry so it was fed
Our Australian native animal the Echidna which is very shy and hard to photograph usually! We were lucky he was on the grassy verge of a slow speed section of the highway, but only went a few meters off the road into the bushes.
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