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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 54

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Earlier in August, I travelled to Queenscliff, to catch the ferry.

While waiting I noted that the wind sock, though battered,

was indicating that the crossing would be fairly calm.

I lined up with other cars and vehicles…

foregoing an early morning coffee in favour of one on board.

 Underway and looking back to Queenscliff, from the topside.

Glancing down and all I saw was churning water as the ferry

was propelled smoothly across Port Philip Bay.

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Look Up, Look Down-Wk-53

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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 53

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Recently I found this Sulphur Crest Cockatoo close

enough to capture a reasonably good photo.

 It eyed me off, and decided that I would probably do him no  harm…

and decided to preen its feathers.

It reminded me of many summer nights when hundreds of cockatoos

would be noisily bidding each other ‘goodnight’

in surrounding pine trees.

After several hours of ‘goodnights’, when they were almost quiet

our neighbour would fire a shotgun either into them, or in the air,

and hundreds of cockatoos would be woken

from their almost slumber…not mention yours truly.

This one was kinda cute and it is hard to think that it was one of

hundreds which managed to spoil a quiet evening.

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Look Up, Look Down-Wk-52

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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 52

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Last week while feeding the magpies…
I happened to look up from dismembering a slice of bread to see this bloke sitting on the other side of the trampoline.
I’m not sure who was shocked most.
It didn’t take long for one body to hope there would be some overflow…
and for some friends to be  looking down on the scene.
One of the onlookers decided to…
drop in and join its friend.
Maggie was starving so much that she did not notice the grace of her namesake…
 as it manoeuvred its way down to the trampoline.
Wings tucked backed…
claws extended, and…
touchdown.

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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 51

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Part of the ceremony during last Tuesday’s First Shot of World War 1 Commemoration…
was a fly over by some Tiger moths.
However, these pelicans…
jumped the gun…
and put on quite a display…
behind the military presence.
However,
they were not content…

with a fly by…
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they had to…
complete…
a full circle or two, before…
deciding…
to…
head…
out into…
Port Phillip Bay.
I enjoyed…
watching their formation flying…
as they glided…
on the air currents.

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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 42

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More flowers.

Dwarf Agapanthus

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Our tibouchina looks quite small when looking down on it.

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•  Going Camondo Style in Istanbul
• Paulilles Dynamite & Boats
• Weathervane
• Top Basilica in Lucca – Jesh StG

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My

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Clouds.

I was hoping for some rain from these clouds…no such luck.  However, the formation was worth the photo.

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• Balloons for Carnevale, Venice
• Gate Down to the Beach – Jesh StG
• Carmens Chronicles

 

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Look Up, Look Down-Wk-40

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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 40

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For those of us with enough ‘life experience’ to remember…

may just remember some shots like these which made squillions for…

Richard Bach and Neil Diamond.  It was just ‘a couple of years ago.’

In February 1980 I was in Christchurch, New Zealand, ending a three-week camping holiday.
 Even back then airlines suffered from delays.

Six or seven hours, in this instance, I believe.

One of my fellow campers mentioned that the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra was performing Jonathan Livingston Seagull that night.  Was I interested?

So off we jogged, yes jogged, to the Christchurch Town Hall.  Now a Town Hall sounds like a reasonably small venue, doesn’t it?  However, the Christchurch Town Hall can, or could, seat 75 more patrons than the Sydney Opera House.  Or were those Kiwis pulling my leg again?  And after the show we ran back to our hotel in time to catch a bus out to the airport for our 0100 flight out of Christchurch.

Our early morning flight allowed me to catch an early morning train back to Warrnambool, about three hours from Melbourne.  I remember it being rather surreal as when talking to locals our experience of the previous night was still fresh in my mind.  I am sure no-one believed me when I said “Last night I saw a performance  of Jonathan Livingston Seagull in Christchurch.”

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These shots were taken at Point Richards at Port Arlington on the Bellarine Peninsula, yesterday, Friday, May 23.

 My Johnathan is setting off over Port Philip Bay or the entrance to Corio Bay…also part of Port Phillip Bay.

 The mountain in the background is the You Yangs which are situated between Melbourne and Geelong.

One last thing,  these photos are best viewed at this size.  A couple are definitely not fit for enlarging.

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• Ancient Ruins of Tuzigoot | undefined by design

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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 39

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Some photos from Geelong’s summer foreshore.

Geelong and Ballarat are only about an hours drive from each other.

However, Ballarat is inland and trips to the coast are common.

Towering above one of the foreshore rotunda is the summer attraction at Geelong…

the Giant Sky Wheel.

  They were known simply as Ferris Wheels when I was a boy!

Whatever they are called the modern version is much larger than those in days of yore.

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• Kestrel in flight | Shots and captures
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• Dailymusing57.wordpress.com/2014/05/15/look-up-look-down-challenge-2/

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My

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for Week 38

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Views over the Olifants River in Kruger National Park , South Africa.

Olifants River and wildlife.

View from Olifants Rest Camp.  This shot taken from the Camp viewing area.

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My

Look Up, Look Down

for Week 37

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In the interests of keeping peace in the canine world…

 

I thought a couple of photos of Ginger were appropriate for this challenge.

 

After all Maggie starred in my Wordless Wednesday post.  Fair’s fair.

Whether you consider this to be Ginger looking up or me looking down is up to you.

 

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