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Pennington Bay Beach
December 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Ferry between Mainland & KI
December 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Sunset at Sea off King Island, SA
December 13, 2024, Indian Ocean ⋅ 🌬 18 °C
This whole sequence of pics = 2 minutes. Yo’ve gotta be quick!
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Adelaide
December 14, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Farming on the Eyre Peninsula
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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The coastline of Farm Beach
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Farm Beach - Fishing
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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 we learn are used to haul the fishing boats out of the water, rather than cars. The beach is wide and mostly fine white sand.Read more
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Dutton Bay
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Dutton Bay Heritage Woolshed.
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
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On the Journey……
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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 are mustered every 5 years to control herd numbers.Read more
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Winter Hill Lookout
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Sail away - Port Lincoln
December 15, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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.
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Another sunset
December 15, 2024, Indian Ocean ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
And the night is coming in quickly as we head east.
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Melbourne, VIC
December 17, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Arrival into Melbourne is about 30 minutes late, we have had several storms overnight as the change has moved thru with us.
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Port Melbourne Walk
December 17, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 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 the way we pass the monument to all naval men and women who have served our country.Read more
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…..Along the way
December 17, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 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, and is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.
2. Centenary Bridge Pillar - This reinforced concrete pillar is the only remnant of Centenary Bridge and remains on its original site at the St Kilda end of the now demolished bridge.
3. Architectural design - this area is undergoing a serious makeover from dockside industrial to bayside city residential. There are some really interesting architectural styles.
4. Preschooler visit to the beach - fun in the sun for these littlies.Read more
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Beach boxes along the Bay
December 17, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 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
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Heading for Bass Strait
December 17, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 17 °C
The weather has turned nasty and it will get nastier as we head out of Port Phillip Bay.
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Furneaux Island Group
December 18, 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 Bass Strait.Read more
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Footsteps
December 19, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 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 2,000 children. Here on Hunter Island, they disembarked.
The 2 plaques record the ships and the numbers involved.Read more
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Along the Hobart Waterfront
December 19, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
The CSIRO’s Marine Research Vessel, Investigator, is docked in its home port. The harbour front is bustling.
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Constitution Dock
December 19, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 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.
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Mawson’s Hut Replica Museum
December 19, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 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 the heritage listed hut in Antarctica.
The main hut housed the 18 men who set out on 2 Dec, 1911. It was to be the main base for Australia’s Antarctica expedition from 1911-1914.
It is the birthplace of Australia’s Antarctica heritage.Read more
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The Dogs
December 19, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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Antarctica - the vast icy continent
December 19, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 17 °C
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