Aussie Pics
As my commute is fairly boring (I will give you some pics though!), I thought I would snap my drive to Melbourne on the weekend.
I forgot my digi cam, so these were taken with my phone.
150kms of this...
Down the Hume Highway - this is classed as the *mad mile* as there used to be a number of accidents, so they put in a Road House to try and break the monotony ...
New bypass just on the outskirts of Melbourne. The Brown actually has purple neons at nite and looks really groovy...
More pretty stuff....
First glimpse of the Melbourne Skyline
Heading into the city...
Cool Bridge....
Skyline..
My favorite shopping place - DFO (Direct Factory Outlets)..
More features...
Heading into Docklands, which is the yuppie area...
The view from FB's apartment..
Heading home, industrial area...
The features from the other direction..
How do you find time to, maybe work, drive, take photos and spend time digging up shit about how bad the USA is????
Hey buster!!! Wrong duck!! I love the USA, honey
That's duck_duck, buster, wrong person.
Nice ducks, these are cool. Can you get landscapes too? What's your house/yard look like?
What's with the rows of tall things next to the roads? There are blue ones and red ones and one random-ass yellow one.
Thats contemporary Melbourne decoration and sound proofing CF. The blue poles have perspex in between for sound proofing when it gets built up out there.
The red poles and random yellow thingie were s'posed to distract us from the fact that we are being *tolled* electronically for driving on that road (citylink).
They also just installed these permanent speed cameras along 40kms of the highway. They not only detect your speed as you pass them, they collect that data from all the cameras along that stretch of road, then collate it and figure your average speed. If your average works out above the legal speed limit...you get a fine in the mail.
The view from my backyard....
The front of the house...which is a work in process. Its a 110yr old sheep homestead and I have done most of the interior work, now its time to get cracking on the exterior.
My baby (and a bit of scenery)
My new crop growth (after recent little bit of rain)
Will take some more on the way home tonite.
Where abouts do you live ducksy? I'm guessing somewhere near Geelong?
I love the view of your backyard. Awesome work! Can't wait to see a few more.
Not even close Ali :D
North East Vic....near Shepparton, 20mins from the Murray.
ahhh...well there you go. That's a good long drive to work every day. I thought mine was bad enough. lol
You're my hero. ;)
Ya bloody wally. I dont drive to Melbourne everyday!!
I do nearly 2 hours of driving everyday, but thats an hour in the morning and then again in the arvo.
Skim reading will kick your arse everytime hun ;)
Ah yes I see. Silly me. Never mind. ;) I'll get over the embarrassment.
Wow, the house is fantastic, I love it! Sooo much character...
It makes Iowa look mountainous.
thank you for posting those pics! So nice to see other parts of the world.
But how do you get "arvo" from afternoon?
Sorry Lady. I got me fowls mixed up. bb
My drive this morning....
Quaint little town I drive through
A very small, but cute roundabout
My gfs shop, they farm buffalo and have a lot of buff products...pies, cheese, sausages etc. Plus they sell local farmers produce there.
My house (n acreage) from the road...
I have to get some pics of my best friends brothel and the supermarket :)
It makes Iowa look mountainous.
'tis true Bruce....I'm a flat country girl.
We have Mountains about an hour away to the east, thats where I will go skiing in the next few weeks and then I cross the Great Dividing Range on my way to Melbourne.
Your best friend actually runs a brothel, or your best friend has a favorite brothel to visit?
My best friend's husband bought her a brothel :) tis seriously cool to hang out there.
Very cool pics DucksNuts :thumb:
very nice - my youngest boy would love your car:)
We went to O'Reilly's on the weekend, and I got a new favorite picture of me!!!
Well, no bats in the cave is a good thing for that one. lol
No candlesticks either Hagar :D
Pretty Rosellas...whats O'Reillys?
Cloud....sorry, I didnt reply to your *arvo* question. Its just good ole Aussie slang, we will shorten anything we can.
it could be arvy too. depending on your mood really. or even sarvy. eg. I'll be round 'sarvy.
O'Reilly's is a guesthouse in the Southern part of the Lamington National Park, in the Gold Coast hinterland. About 2 hrs drive from Brisbane. It's a bit touristy, but still good fun. You buy a little bag of seed for $1.50 and the parrots just about carry you off. They're on a good thing, and they know it.
There's lots of bushwalks and a cool elevated treetop walk where you can climb up a tree in a caged ladder to a small platform 30m off the ground. This shows the first part of the ladder.
This is from the top of the tree, looking West.
Awesome Hagar :)
I did the tree walk down in Tasmania...loved it.
I'm almost changing my mind about wanting to visit Australia... Seriously Ducks, that's one beautiful place to wake up to every day.
Beautiful pictures - the right mix of mundane and Dept of Tourism scenery!
Thanks SG - I sometimes think its particularly boring, but on the whole I love where I live....coz its just a quick trip down the highway to the big smoke.
I kept reading thru this thread hoping and praying that I hadn't responded...... I have too many goofy Aussie pics from my trips over there and I don't want to be banned!! We will be there next month (Surfers Paradise again).
Why would you get banned and why were you praying you hadnt responded?
Sounds like seakdivers has nekid Aussie pics that have not been shared yet!
Somewhere else we've been in the last week.
Surfers Paradise from the (newish) Q1 building - apparently it's the 20th tallest building in the world:
The (newish) Q1 building from Surfers Paradise Main Beach:
It's so flat that....
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I am loving the Aus pics, thanks! That bridge is cool. And the beach, goes forever....what's the temp? It's winter there now, right?
Middle of Winter, in Brisbane/Gold Coast at the moment (daytime maximum) it's about 18-20 degrees C. That's about 5C above the winter average. Minimums can get below 10C.
It was 25 in Brisbane one day last week. That was a warm one for sure.
I like living in Qld. :) So much better than those yuck southern states.
Fuck off Ali - at least we know how to drive :p
Down here at downunder-downunder (well, no.. not Tassie, but close)....we get down to minimum of -3 celius at nite and max of 18C during the day for winter. Averages are more like 3C at nite and 15C during the day.
Summer the max is 42C but the normal is 36-38C ....the beautiful thing about the South is NO HUMIDITY!!
The beautiful thing about the north is better fruit. :)
Really? what ? Banana's ...Mangos?
Meh - we have all the stone fruits, all the citrus and the vines too :D plus Olives, rice and all your grain crops.
Throw in that the majority of your dairy comes from down here and Vegasians would be screwed without us Mexicans.
Mangos always smell manky.
We also have stone fruit in Qld. :)
Anyway, qld is simply better that's all. No point arguing.