Pennington Bay Beach
13. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
Thru the low lying coastal scrub and popped over a sand-dune and WOW! Situated on the south coast of KI, this is a popular surfing beach.
Ferry between Mainland & KI
13. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C
The sea-link ferry joins KI with the mainland at Cape Jarvis. The crossing takes approximately 45 minutes and there are several services a day.
Sunset at Sea off King Island, SA
13. Dezember 2024, Indian Ocean ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
This whole sequence of pics = 2 minutes. Yo’ve gotta be quick!
Adelaide
14. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
A day resting up so the pics are only from the ship. Yachts heading out for Saturday afternoon racing; the car terminal; North Haven Golf Course; the cruise terminal; and a local farewell.
Farming on the Eyre Peninsula
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 24 °C
Agriculture on the Eyre Peninsula is mostly wheat, barley, canola, sheep and cattle. It has been a very dry year and many farmers are cutting the wheat for hay.
The coastline of Farm Beach
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Farm Beach is on Coffin Bay. It’s an expansive beach, well-used for fishing. The movie, Gallipoli, was also filmed here - the beach scenes.
Farm Beach - Fishing
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 27 °C
Home of the King George Whiting and just this current week there have been several sightings of sharks in the area. There are many holiday homes [shacks] in this area and lots of old tractors which weWeiterlesen
Dutton Bay
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
The Dutton Bay Jetty was a privately owned facility where ships could load the wool and grain from the Dutton Bay Farm. Oysters and other shellfish are found in the shallow waters edge.
Dutton Bay Heritage Woolshed.
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
On the Journey……
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C
Corrugated gravel roads are far more prevalent than tarred roads. The land is mostly flat or slightly undulating. We see emus in the wild and the Coffin Bay brumbies which are also wild and areWeiterlesen
Winter Hill Lookout
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
Situated high above Port Lincoln, there’s a commanding view of the islands and bays of the Eyre Peninsula. Up here there are the wild brumbies, and we can even see the fish farms out in the bay.
Sail away - Port Lincoln
15. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Sailing out of Port Lincoln, we come quite close to the many fish farms out in the bay where fingerlings are raised and then grown as part of the sustainable aquaculture industry.
Another sunset
15. Dezember 2024, Indian Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
And the night is coming in quickly as we head east.
Melbourne, VIC
17. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Arrival into Melbourne is about 30 minutes late, we have had several storms overnight as the change has moved thru with us.
Port Melbourne Walk
17. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
We walked the promenade along the Port Melbourne waterfront. From here we can see the West Gate Bridge, People enjoying the wide sandy beach…..next the dog beach…. And the old pier….along theWeiterlesen
…..Along the way
17. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
1. Station Pier - a historic Australian pier on Port Phillip Bay, in Port Melbourne. Opened in 1854, the pier is Melbourne's primary passenger terminal, servicing interstate ferries and cruise ships,Weiterlesen
Beach boxes along the Bay
17. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ 🌬 20 °C
Nothing more iconic about Melbourne than the beach boxes at Brighton. Managed to get a big zoom and several attempts to get these pics
Heading for Bass Strait
17. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
The weather has turned nasty and it will get nastier as we head out of Port Phillip Bay.
Furneaux Island Group
18. Dezember 2024, Bass Strait ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
The largest islands in the Furneaux group are Flinders, Cape Barren and Clark Islands. We sail quite close as we head for the east coast of Tasmania after a very rough night at sea through BassWeiterlesen
Footsteps
19. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
“Footsteps” monument by Roman Gillespie was unveiled in 2017. It recognises the 13,000 female convicts who were transported to Van Diemen’s Land between 1803-1853 bringing with them 2,000Weiterlesen
Along the Hobart Waterfront
19. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
The CSIRO’s Marine Research Vessel, Investigator, is docked in its home port. The harbour front is bustling.
Constitution Dock
19. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Constitution Dock is buzzing with workers who are erecting tents, portaloos, stages etc for Taste Tasmania and the arrival of the Sydney-Hobart yachts after Christmas.
Mawson’s Hut Replica Museum
19. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
The Replica Museum of Mawson’s Hut opened on Dec 2, 2013, on the 102nd anniversary of Mawson’s departure to Antarctica. This hut has been constructed from precise measurements and detail from theWeiterlesen
The Dogs
19. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
Antarctica - the vast icy continent
19. Dezember 2024 in Australien ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C