Dying - Choices Please!

A great blog that discusses the rights of a teminally ill person to die the way of their choice. here

Frederick William PEERS Liverpool to Melbourne 1852 - Grimes Hunter Dunn

"Fred W Peers" stockbroker, Sketch by Lionel Lindsay, 1896 Melbourne newspaper "Free Lance" . Frederick William Peers who owned a large property on the Dandenong Road, Caulfield, Melbourne. He was born 19th March 1842 West Derby, Lancashire, England, the son of William Hunter Peers cotton broker of Liverpool and Janet Grimes born 1792 Scotland. William Hunter Peers was the son of John Peers and Mary Hunter,and he died 8th May 1863,Motshaven, New York, 1863. Frederick William Peers arrived in Melbourne with his mother; elder brother John Grimes Peers, (1841 Liverpool England -1896 Bairnsdale, Vic) sister Janet Alice Peers [1843 Liverpool Eng. - 1917 Vic) Charles Harley Peers (1844-1853). Frederick Peers married Margaret Henrietta DUNN in 1867 at Carlton, Vic. They had 11 children. More information on them and his parents too at web site http://www.geocities.ws/jumeau_overflow/peers.html .

Elwood Beach Melbourne

Kite Boarding in a gale at Brighton Beach, Melbourne

Art Deco -Sandringham Harbour - fishing boats and Pelican

Art Deco Style house with newer extension top story in keeping with the sytle, North Road, Clayton.

St Kilda Beach and Marina

This amazing wide public beach is about one mile from the centre of Melbourne.

Colourful Kites surfing at St Kilda Beach Melbourne

Behind the kites is Port Melbourne and Williamstown - haze due to smoke from the Anakie bushfires.

More Sculpture from Docklands Melbourne

This was by Lyn Edey and in an exhibition on the warf at new Docklands in 2004 - may be gone now Jan 2006? More public outdoor sculptures by women around Victoria at this web site here .

Cousin Catherine's beautiful huge Lilly

Sorrow at Sills Bend: Statuary Friday #20

Sorrow at Sills Bend: Statuary Friday #20 For More Public Art Sculptures around Melbourne see photos and details of sculptors click here

Kite boarding or kite surfing Brighton

The wind speed around 5-6pm was very high -at Moorabbin it was then about 44 KM/h. Some boarders could not control their kites too well while others soared higher and higher! Current Wind speed and direction and water temperatures in Port phillip Bay bay near Brighton and tides and full details of Melbourne weather at this web site here.

Luna Park St Kilda Melbourne

Luna Park, "Just for Fun" its old slogan! This fun park opened to the public in 1912 with many rides including the popular Scenic Railway ever since. [Really the mouth entrance was full of people.]

Snared woman

Oh! to be a photgrapher... oops

Singing "I do like be beside the seaside"

Public Sculpture around Melbourne

The first two sculptures are "Shadows Wave Pattern" photo and the "Aerial Boat" are by women artists.

Portsea Pub view, Pier, Front Beach and Swim with Dolphin boat photographs

Photographs of Portsea Surf Beach and London Bridge rock formation next trip. See Index of my photographs of Trips to Beaches, Daylesford, Montsalvat, Badger Weir, Parrots, Sculptures, Greendale, Melbourne Flower and Garden Show, Inverloch, Kilcunda, Melville Caves, Inglewood, and more.

Brighton Beach in a gale - sailboards and beach bathing boxes