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Mildura Holiday – the Gaol and the Cruise
Finally, the last post about our Mildura trip. I’ve been writing about it for a whole month now, and this is post number seven, as if we’d spent a couple of weeks there.
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Mildura holiday – Oddities of Nature
My European readers looked at these photos and shrugged: frozen lakes in winter are nothing new. At first glance it does look like a standard winter scene, but look a bit closer.
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Mildura
The trip to Mildura left me with a stack of impressions. I’ve already written about the roads, the dried-up lakes, the dunes and Castlemaine. What I haven’t written about yet is Mildura itself.
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Christmas lights at Southbank
City lights at night — pretty much exactly how I pictured the scene I wanted to shoot on video with an anamorphic lens. Ideas are meant to be turned into reality, so one warm evening I loaded my video gear…
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Walls of China
In Australian English there’s a word, ‘mallee’, that refers both to a type of landscape and to its vegetation: low-growing eucalyptus trees covering vast semi-arid plains.
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Mildura holiday – Castlemaine
On the way to Mildura we made several long stops. The first was the town of Castlemaine, which I’ve written about before, though only the museum ship named after it.
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Mildura holiday – Lake Tyrrell
A very long time ago, right in the middle of Australia, there was a massive lake covering parts of what are now Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. It existed about 2.5 million years ago.
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Mildura holiday – the road there and back
The wonderful moment finally arrived when we headed off on our family holiday. We usually go somewhere wild and exotic, but this time we decided to stay in Victoria.
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Nicholas Building
Stories have a habit of weaving themselves together. Sometimes you learn something new — an interesting little piece of information or history. Then you come across another one that doesn’t seem related at all. And then a third one appears,…
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The Rainforest and the Hills
Here are some photo reports from two decent little outings. They weren’t full day trips — just times when I happened to have a few free hours and headed out into nature for some fresh air. And I always take…
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