EARTH HOUR - THE MOVIE

We observed Earth Hour on the deck - was interesting to see before and after pics showing  our neighbourhood plunged into relative darkness.

JAZUSHI

Sushi and jazz restaurant, Surry Hills, last friday.  Great evening !

WALL OF COLOUR

In Waterloo. Tile shop comes alive at night.

TWILIGHT

Shot from our deck.

EARTH HOUR

We marked Earth Hour last night.

Melbourne Morning After

After a heavy night at our favourite Italian restaurant, we were forced to innovate to survive:

Melbourne South Bank

video clip from recent trip to Melbourne - a perfect evening along the river Yarra.

Architecture that Inspires

We are really enjoying the huge range of Melbourne's architecture on display, with this visit.  Every turn leads to a new exciting vista and contrasting styles.  You dare not walk without looking up for fear of missing out.

Holding the Purse Strings

Robyn trying out the street furniture on Bourke Street, Melbourne's main shopping street. 

 

Only In Australia

A Canberra family's had a rude awakening after a kangaroo crashed through a bedroom window and terrorised its unsuspecting occupants.

http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2009/03/09/Canberra_man_forced_to_evict_breakandenter_roo_in_a_headlock

Dodgy

Worldsquare

FOSSIL FOOTPRINT

(Source: The Economist)

Homo erectus had a manly gait

Science

THIS footprint is part of one of two series of fossil tracks found recently in Kenya in rocks that are 1.5m years old. It is thought to have been made byHomo erectus, an ancestor of modern Homo sapiens. As the name suggests, Homo erectus is known from its skeleton to have walked upright, but the details of its gait could, in the past, be inferred only from bones, rather than being studied more directly. The new tracks, reported in Scienceby Matthew Bennett of Bournemouth University, in Britain, and his colleagues, confirm that Homo erectus walked heel-to-toe as a modern human does, rather than with the ape-like gait of its own ancestors, the australopithecines.

Serious boy racer

Spotted in Surry Hlls
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sunset beach

Brilliant pic taken by Teena Saunders. 

 

 

recycle time

Throwing out accumulated junk at the office.
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Changing winds

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails." —William Arthur Ward

Video - Penguin escapes killer whales

VIDEO: A penguin makes a daring getaway from some hungry killer whales by jumping into a tourist boat.
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Penguin escapes killer whales

2008-12-09 17:38:54

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People watching in Surry Hills

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colour in balmain

shots taken in Balmain today.

somebody's sense of humour

spotted in sydney city, elizabeth Street.  Someone has obviously taken a dislike to this upmarket menswear shop, called Vince Maloney & Co, and vandalised the rather expensive nameplate sign.  Undoubtedly wrong from a moral perspective, but you have to admire the vision of the vandal, or am I the only one seeing this ?