We don't send postcards usually, we post them here.

Saturday 20 March 2010

Another Mallacoota Sunset


The colours at times reminded me of the colours on a cheap Hawaiian shirt, but I kept snapping away anyway.


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Friday 19 March 2010

Flying High


A seagull slips by at my eye level.  
Sunset at Mallacoota.

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Wednesday 17 March 2010

Sunset Mallacoota


The Fire Authorities are doing a lot of burning near here, and last night (as is happening again as I type) the view from our tent was simply spectacular as the sun disappeared for the day.   Perhaps I will spare you from a week of sunset photos, but indulge me once or twice....

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Tuesday 16 March 2010

Burning Off

Driving near Orbost today (enroute to Marla if you must know and have access to Google maps), the paddocks were fluorescent green after recent deluges and constant irrigation.  The sky was a milky white, filled with smoke from controlled burning of Gippsland's forests, turning the hills beyond a spooky blue.

Well we like it!
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Monday 15 March 2010

Altona


Waiting for chips.  

And the sky is finally how we like it.
Altona

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Sunday 14 March 2010

Narrawong Sunrise 3


Then the pink is gone and the sun starts to assert itself.

What I don't get in this photograph, is the asymmetric reflection.  I can't find an explanation in any of my physics text books, but it looks pretty postcardy.

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Saturday 13 March 2010

Narrawong Sunrise Two


A few minutes later and the pink is more pronounced, the blue in the sky starting to make its presence felt.

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Friday 12 March 2010

Sunrise Narrawong


I admit it, I'm fascinated by the way the light changes so rapidly during the sunrise event.  For the next three days, three postcards taken in a time frame of no more than fifteen minutes, with colour ranging from the subtlety of this one, to almost bizarre.

Anyway, here's a spot of morning fishing happening.

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Thursday 11 March 2010


Windfarms are not universally loved, and for the life of me there seems to be more than enough wind in Victoria without having to create more in these things.   To those who would do away with them, I would simply retort "after you have done away with mains electricity".

On the other hand, they are decidedly creepy.  Like invading aliens, they seem to be spying on us, there's just no escaping them.   To see more of what I'm getting at, browse my latest Flickr upload.
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Wednesday 10 March 2010

Backpacking


It's astonishing how much actual backpacking is subcontracted out to cheap hire vans these days.  The cheaper they are, the cheaper the graphics.  The ones with stripes to match their power cords are not cheap.  They even have hubcaps on their wheels.


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More Seaweed


A bit of weed floating serenely past the Beachport jetty early in the morning.  The water is green because it's cold, and it's oh so clear!

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Tuesday 9 March 2010

Beachport Seaweed


Just some weed on a mooring line on the Beachport jetty, but it would make some Mermaid a mighty fine necklace.

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Monday 8 March 2010

Triffids


I love these little dune plants, but I'm not sure they can be trusted.   We are currently camped among a sea of their cousins, but they are all bright green, the way the books say plants are supposed to look.   Perhaps these were getting ready to attack!

Beachport - Five Mile
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Saturday 6 March 2010

Twenty minutes later


Twenty minutes after yesterday's photograph, we decided to leave the beach while we could still see the tracks.  A postcard from Beachport SA in autumn!

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Friday 5 March 2010

Seychelles


Celine said this photograph is wrong, it looks like the Seychelles in summer not chilly windy Beachport in autumn, but the horizon is a hint.  In less than half an hour the beach will be engulfed in fog, the sun will be obliterated and the complexion of the beach will be quite different!

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Thursday 4 March 2010

Box 243


A long time ago Australia Post was proudly run by the Commonwealth Of Australia.  In Beachport some of the original boxes, complete with keyhole in the "O" are still in place in the old post office, if not in service, suffering almost no ills from exposure to the salt laden air.


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