Tuesday started cold, frosty & foggy.
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| The grass covered in frost taken from the back verandah. |
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| Along the top of the sleepers. |
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| Ice on the pond. |
After much debating & deliberation with our morning coffee, we came to the decision to head out to get some parts for our trailer, which needs a bit of TLC. Made some lunch & thermos to take with us & headed off. As we were going to be close to Braeside Park, we made that our destination for lunch & a walk. Somewhere we've been before, but not for a proper walk. Um... a lot of photos were taken, so join me as we potter along.
Starting with the tree sculptures, which I have posted before with one of my quilts, but there are several more than what I showed.
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| The view while eating lunch. |
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| The pelicans. |
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| Sugar Glider. |
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| More of the Sugar Gliders. |
The tree below has many animals.
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| A wombat peeking out. |
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| A large lizard or maybe goanna. |
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| A koala and kangaroo. |
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Pharlap and either trainer or jockey.
This was one of our famous race horses who was trained in this area. |
Carrying on with the rest of the walk, we saw many interesting bits and pieces, so here are some I snapped.
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| One of several ponds & dams throughout the park. |
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A post for your camera, but it was at such an angle, all I could capture was sky or grass.
Due to being quite old, the climatic conditions etc., it had moved over the years.
Could be remedied if someone would do it. |
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| Snake signs appear quite regularly on my blog...................😏 |
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| Teepees again, but this time not at the beach. |
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| Bracken fern, all green & lush, but such a nuisance in a lot of places after being introduced in colonial days. |
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Now this was a lovely little surprise. A painted stone, very like what I've seen on my friend Kate's blog in the UK.
I didn't see any more, but hopefully this pretty one will make many more people smile. |
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| Reflections in more water we saw. |
And for a few trees, very much favourites of mine, but I try not to overwhelm you with too many.
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| So sculptural. |
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| Notice the beautiful markings on this log. |
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| And eucalyptus leaves, so pretty in colour & shape. |
After picking up some trailer parts, we headed for home. Stopped in Tooradin to have a cup of take away tea and snapped these few pictures along the banks of Sawtell's Inlet.
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A rather grotesque carved gargoyle.
I've never seen him before, but we usually go to the cafe on the other side of the highway. |
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| The tide coming in from Westernport Bay & flowing down what I always think of as a river, though it's only a tidal inlet. |
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| Looking further down the inlet. |
That was our Tuesday and although freezing to start with, the rest of the day was lovely and sunny and made a difference as we actually had an "outing" with social distancing firmly in mind. I'm still not game enough to venture anywhere there might be lots of people close to each other. Luckily most of our outings are just us two & we don't need to gather as some people do. We'll wait and see what the future holds for being out & about.
OH.......one last bit of trivia from the weekend. We did make a very short trip up the highway to see this parked at the weigh-in station before it made it's way to one of the big power stations in the LaTrobe Valley.
This load was being pulled by 3 prime movers and being pushed by two more. It was huge and could only travel during the night as the road needed to be closed, so it could use either side of the highway.
There were also many support vehicles and these loads always cause quite a stir & lots of people taking photos. Whoops, just like me, who finds them fascinating.
OK, my lot for now.
Take care all, stay safe & huggles from down under.
Susan.
