a cold weekend

good morning, good morning... up bright and early to the markets for fruit & veg shopping. in and out by 8.30 - great produce and no wading through tourists. yah to that. treated myself to glorious dahlias.


caught up with carly for breakfast at joe's garage on brunswick st. then went into the city for a little light shopping. which i accidentally did on sunday after the national art gallery. i love the buildings around the city and think i've come up with a cool project for myself. i'll tell you about it later, actually even better, i'll show you. but it probably won't be until after i return from hullabaloo.

a drive by westgarth

a theatre i have to visit. (oh, and happy easter).

saturday morning pre-shopping

a night out

flinders station from young & jackson's, late friday eve - early saturday morning.

new city, new job & a bruise or two

i start at vu (victoria university) tomorrow. eek! looking forward to the challenges ahead.

this past week i've just been finding my feet, even on one occasion a dance floor. yah to already finding a place to lindy.

the weather has been a bit stifling but it'll be over before long and i'll be wondering if there ever was a sun.

haven't taken any photos this past week but i'm sure in the coming days i'll make up for it. sophie heads out to europe in 4 sleeps. then it's just me, kato and the rest of melbourne.

the rest of the way

sorry i've been so slack but i've been settling in and getting a job. haven't even made it to pellegrinis yet (of course there was lunch with dessert at brunetti's though).

let's see, i've got plenty of photos to post from the trip over but perhaps i'll just throw in a few.

from boulder to eucla...

an example of the price of fuel. i think i remember cocklebiddy being the most expensive at $1.81 a litre. eek!


"a little piece of heaven fell from the sky one day..." remembrance of a highschool poem. skylab fell across w.a. in 1979, the year my sister was born.


straightest road in australia, nearly 150km in length. or width, depending on which way you're standing.


end of straight... yawn!



and then the ocean at eucla.

the next day i drove eucla to port augusta, i think the longest drive of the trip. and the nullabor.





i swear i had a relatively clean windscreen until minutes after exiting the nullabor. south australia will now be known as the bug-splat state.




what can you say about a town called iron knob??


at last there seems to be more than plains to this thar country. flinders ranges.


a short 3 hour drive into adelaide the next day. a wander around town, a massage at central markets then caught up with al, melis, ang and markus. we were all bunking at melis' folks place in the adelaide hills, chez dove. fringe festival was on so after a drink or two at a very cool bar we caught arj barker (mel was a bit star struck- ha!) and then walked through the carnival, i suspect the only thing missing was fire-eaters (though it could've been their night off).









i love carousels and ferris wheels.


last day on the road. it couldn't come soon enough. i love to drive but i tell you i was quite happy to see the end of this day.






don't know what the giant koala was all about, but i passed it and snapped it.





view of melbourne from the westgate bridge. i hit quite a large traffic jam when i got to the city limits. welcome home i heard it say.

perth to kalgoorlie

took me a little longer than usual. it's only around 598km but i took about 6 and a half hours. i was taking photos along the way.

let's see... left just after 7am when gail kicked me out of the balmoral house. marija showed up to see me off as well.




i'll be including many shots from the road over the next few days. trying to give you a taste of the country as i drive across.


meckering is a town known for an earthquake that hit in october 1968. but also for this strange photography museum building, someone with a passion i guess.


this is the kellerberrin postoffice. the best thing about travelling through small towns are the beautiful buildings that are still standing. i hope they're never pulled down.







merredin has this water tower in the middle of town. and i was driving around looking for the lawn bowls club (i'll tell you about that fetish later) and came across this fantastic theatre.






coolgardie has had this house on the corner for as long as i can remember.


more cool buildings around coolgardie.



then onto kalgoorlie-boulder. you can just see the city on the horizon.


this is the boulder town hall.


this is my great grandmother's house in boulder, it's been renovated since goona lived there. i used to stay over when i was little and i always remember it being this shadowy place.