Cute and Fluffy No More
Gracie the Puli [^] takes a moment to recover from a hectic show schedule at the Shepparton Show.
Pulis are a small to medium breed of herding dog from Hungary. They have with a tightly curled, corded coat that can grow to touch the ground. With a full-grown coat a puli will seem to glide around the show ring.
The Victorian Arts Centre is graced with a spindly tube spire which reaches up 162m [^]. This makes it a useful navigation aide, especially at night when it is all lit-up.
It’s seen here from across the Yarra River on a bright spring day, looking much more inviting than the wintery hot air balloon photo from December 2007.
Earlier on in the year the CannibalRabbits headed down to Geelong for a model railway show. Of course we had to see the sea before we could come home.
One bit of excitement was the seaplane giving joy flights. VH-UBI is a Cessna 206 Stationair that has been fitted with amphibious floats. Bay City Seaplanes [^] take tourists around Corio Bay and out as far as the Twelve Apostles on the Great Ocean Road. Now that would be an amazing way to see the coast!
Yackandandah is a small, sleepy town in north-eastern Victoria, that was once on the main highway from Melbourne to Sydney. Now it is well and truly bypassed, but with it’s Gold Rush heritage and 37 heritage listed buildings in the tree-lined main street the tourists keep coming. On a beautiful autumn day like this it’s easy to see why.
It’s nice to start a day seeing hot air balloons. Leaving the Lilydale Memorial Park and driving through a fog-draped Yarra Valley the morning seemed to to get even better. The clear sky promised of a beautiful autumn day once the fog burnt off.
