Tag: Canberra
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Sylvia jetty sunset.
I used to live in Sylvia Curly House, a nurse’s residence at the old Canberra Hospital located out on Acton Peninsula. Looking out of the window of my small room in Sylvia, I had a million-dollar view out over the lake and across to the Brindabella Mountains. It became a nursing tradition to regularly meet…
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The Martian Embassy
A 10-year-old’s eerie encounter near a crashed UFO site turns out to be the fascinating story of the Australian Shine Dome.
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National Arboretum Canberra.
Location: ///luxury.fire.draw35°17.55096’S, 149°4.29126’E Took Juno for a walk up to the arboretum to catch the golden hour and perhaps grab a couple of snaps. Only he had other ideas, certain that the only reason we could possibly have come up here was so he could pee on a tree from every country on the planet.…
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Another day, another abandoned building.
Out for a walk this morning I happened upon an old building in the centre of Canberra that looks like it is straight out of a Batman movie. A plaque on the wall identified it as “Department of climate change, energy, the environment and water” (as if these were 4 seperate things). In a stroke…
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Giving autumn and building benches
Chalk up yet another perfect Canberra morning in the Autumn that just keeps on giving. A morning walk by the lake. A wake of golden-red foliage. The RSPCA was running their ‘million paws walk’, and we turned up late to catch the stragglers and sleepers-in. Juno immediately slotted in for bit of pack weaving, butt…
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The school of forestry.
Location: ///shorts.finger.entry35°18.2301’S, 149°5.70282’E Out for a walk today and came upon this old heritage listed building. The grounds are being meticulously maintained. The building itself is neglected and deserted. Such a shame. This was the Australian Forestry School. Opened in 1927, the building originally comprised two lecture theatres, a library, teaching laboratory and museum. It…
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Morning walk, Mt Taylor.
Location: ///vibrated.sieved.demonstrated35°22.5105’S, 149°4.55454’E Morning calf pump up Mount Taylor1. Perhaps some advanced cardio training for the impending temple and noodle bar treks through Kyoto…. Or perhaps a slowly dawning realisation that the imprints I’m leaving on my couch now resemble organic post-middle-aged buttocks potatoes. I’ll run with the noodle bars. Anyway…denial, preparation, whatever. It was…
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Through it on two wheels.
An Autumn day like this demands a two-wheeled response. So I ride through it. One of those days that serves up unanticipated perfection. One of those days that leaves a pleasant inscription in your memory that you might try to recapture (by doing the same activities or going to the same place) but inevitably fail…
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This picture is my choice for today. Snapped as a window reflection, I captured a workman in a high-vis jacket on his phone. I like the way the window etchings provide an interesting patternation overlay to the scene. I think the man could be a little sharper. Six out of ten. … I think this…
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