SOUTH MELBOURNE

South Melbourne viewed from Southbank. The Victorian building with the clocktower is the South Melbourne Town Hall.

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COMMON PIGEONS

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AT SUNRISE

At sunrise! Funny to see that outside your window when you draw the drapes in the morning...

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CYCLAMEN

Winter brings flowering cyclamen to our garden and home. Cyclamen is a genus of 23 species of perennial flowering plants in the family Primulaceae. Cyclamen species are native to Europe and the Mediterranean Basin east to Iran, with one species in Somalia. They grow from tubers and are valued for their flowers with upswept petals and variably patterned leaves. Many hybrids exist, and some varieties (especially the wild ones) are fragrant.

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FISH LADDER

Darebin Creek fish ladder in the Darebin Parklands in Alphington. A fish ladder, also known as a fishway, fish pass, fish steps, or fish cannon, is a structure on or around artificial and natural barriers (such as dams, locks and waterfalls) to facilitate diadromous fishes' natural migration as well as movements of potamodromous species.

Most fish ladders enable fish to pass around the barriers by swimming and leaping up a series of relatively low steps (hence the term ladder) into the waters on the other side. The velocity of water falling over the steps has to be great enough to attract the fish to the ladder, but it cannot be so great that it washes fish back downstream or exhausts them to the point of inability to continue their journey upriver.

Carried out by Melbourne Water, the $350,000 project in Darebin Creek involved installing a series of carefully designed rock works placed downstream of the structure in Darebin Parklands. This ‘rock ramp fishway’ allows water to cascade through the structure forming eddies that act as a refuge for fish so they can move freely through the waterway.

The design targets fish species that migrate from saltwater to freshwater environments to complete their life cycle including Common Galaxias and Short Finned Eel. The fish ladder was constructed with imported locally sourced rock. The project was constructed on site where materials were matched to complement the natural waterway and the environment.

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HAWTHORN

Burwood Rd in Hawthorn looking West towards the City. Always busy and with a good variety of historic buildings, interesting shops, galleries, Swinburne University of Technology campus and many cafés and restaurants.

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WINTER"S HERE

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CAMBERWELL ART SHOW 2024

We visited the Camberwell Art Show last Saturday at the Swinburne University of Technology's Hawthorn Campus. It was a very well-organised, extensive showing of works by well-known, emerging and amateur artists. As always well-curated and displayed in a commodious and interesting setting. A most enjoyable outing once again this year!

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KITTY KAT

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WINTER SUNRISE

A noisy miner (Manorina melanocephala), a bird in the honeyeater family, Meliphagidae, enjoying the sunrise in Melbourne.

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CAMELLIA

Camellia sasanqua 'Jennifer Susan', is a wonderful camellia with soft warm pink semi-double to peony flowers, with wavy petals. It is a vigorous evergreen grower, early flowering in autumn and winter. Makes a great hedge and guaranteed to brighten winter's grey days!

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FROSTY MORNING

We had our first very cold night and frosty morning last night, with the temperature down to -1˚C in our garden. The pond surfaces froze and the first rays of the sun fell on the frosty leaves.

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DAREBIN PARKLANDS

Winter Sunrise in the Darebin Parklands, with the thermometer showing 2˚C. Beautiful, though...

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WINTER

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SUNDAY BRUNCH

At the Town and Country Café in Glenferrie Rd Kew.

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FOGGY WINTER POND

A cold and foggy Winter morning today. However, always pleasant for a walk in the Darebin Parklands. The ducks seemed happy to there too!

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YARRA SUNRISE

Sunrise over the River Yarra, along the Sandridge Pedestrian Bridge with the Evan Walker Pedestrian Bridge in the distance to the right.

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ROSE HIPS

The roses have well and truly said goodbye for this growing season and only the hips are now evidence of their passing. Waiting for their yearly pruning so as to ensure more blooms in Spring.

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AT THE PARK

Winter is well and truly here with us in Melbourne and the Queen Victoria Gardens opposite the National Gallery of Victoria look a little bleak. Nevertheless, it is always pleasant to take a walk there.

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DOCKLANDS

Evening view at the Docklands looking towards the West down the Yarra River.

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WINTER SUN

At the Darebin Parklands on a brisk, but fine morning. A few surviving olive trees are a remnant of an old olive grove in the area.

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COOL DOG

Cool dog trying to be warm in a Melbourne Winter, but is a hot dog in pink :-) I love dog owners who are considerate of their animals in cold weather and make sure they are kept warm!

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MOONRISE

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BIRTHDAY BOUQUET

An early Winter bouquet from our garden with golden wattles, orange calendulas, pink bergenias, red alstroemerias and white daisies.

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IN FLIGHT

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SMALL TOWN VICTORIA

In Moe, Gippsland, as Autumn turns to Winter.

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REAR WINDOW

Evening view from my window... (With apologies to Mr Hitchcock).

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FISH

Life is simple in a cosseted tropical fish aquarium...

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