The road back to the Quarantine Station from Fort Nepean, right on the tip of Point Nepean. On the left are the calm waters of Nepean Bay in Port Phillip Bay. On the right is Bass Strait, with the waves breaking on the Petriana Reef. It’s lovely on a day like this, but I’m not sure I would want to be here on a stormy moonless night in the middle of winter.
The view across the entrance to Port Phillip Bay, the Rip, across to the Point Lonsdale Lighthouse from Point Nepean. The Rip is around 3km wide, but with shallow reefs on both sides the shipping lane is reduced to around 1km.
A somewhat tatty Australian Painted Lady butterfly, Vanessa kershawi, at the Point Nepean National Park.
Mornington Peninsula’s London Bridge from the lookout.
Mum, Zoe, and Dad on the walk down to the lookout for London Bridge. London Bridge is an arch eroded by the wind and sea from the limestone, surrounded by rock pools.
The Sovereign Hill Surgeon out and about making house calls.
Soho Foundry
Robinson Thomas & Company
Engineers Millwrights Brass Founders Etc.
The Soho Foundry at Sovereign Hill in Ballarat. From 1972 until COVID hit, this was an operational part of Sovereign Hill. The foundry was used to produce metal pots and pans by metal spinning or turning. The business continues at the family’s home-based workshop.
The view from the steps beside Steinfeld’s Ragged School at Sovereign Hill, looking over the bowling alley and the Fire Brigade. This shows the almost Hollywood-esque nature of these Gold Rush era buildings, fancy façades covering up tin sheds.
The view over Sovereign Hill from the overnight accommodation area.
The sign on the mullock heap at Sovereign Hill. We are looking out over the suburb of Canadian towards Mt Warranheip (746m, 2,448ft). Mt Warranheip is the main landmarks on the Western Hwy letting you know that you are getting close to Ballarat.
Mt Warranheip is one of the hundreds of scoria cone volcanoes across Victoria and SA. Only two of them, Mt Warranheip and nearby Mt Buninyong, are forrested.
Something has caught the attention of this Australian Dingo at the Melbourne Zoo. Even though the Dingo is in the dog family they get to live in the Lion Gorge section of the Zoo with the big cats!
A Rainbow Lorikeet in the trees at the Melbourne Zoo. This one was free to come and go as it pleased. The rainbow lorikeet is probably Australia’s most widespread bird species, found everywhere except Cape York and Tasmania.