One of the first places we visited was Brighton Beach, with its colourful beach boxes. These little shacks were built before it was illegal to build on the beach. Now, their grandfathered status makes them very valuable.
Adam and Nicole, our Australian and Australian-in-spirit tour guides.
He was asking for it.
We also passed a big set of sand sculptures.
Later in the week we went for a drive with Adam and Nicole to Point Nepean National Park, way out at the end of one of the bull horns that encloses the giant bay Melbourne is built on, Port Philip. Historically this has been a defensive position for Australians since 1880ish. Now there are a bunch of ruined gun emplacements and the like that date to WW2. The beach on the oceanward side of this park is also where Australian prime minister Harold Holt drowned in 1967.
In the distance is one of the watch towers. In the foreground, the domed structure used to have an artillery piece.
Somewhere around here is where Harold Holt drowned. This beach also claimed the SS Cheviot in 1887.
The other side of the point is not as threatening. Apparently this is a great place to skin dive.
One of the WW2 era bunkers.
During WW2 Happy Valley was the ironic name for the barracks here, as the soldiers were beset by boredom, incessant flies, and blistering heat. Now the irony is the numerous unexploded shells.
That day we also visited Cape Schanck, just 70 km or so north of the southernmost tip of continental Australia. The weather turned by the time we got here so it was colder, overcast, and very, very windy.
I lost my hat here =[ (bottom right corner).
Great photos Pat!
ReplyDeleteIncredible Photos, want to go there. Please. Fairy TREE and MEERKATS heavenly
ReplyDeleteNice work on stitching the two photos together, although the gap makes it look like there's some bad feeling between me and Nicole and you and Mary. That was a fun day, although I later discovered that my ankles and the back of my calves were a little sunburnt.
ReplyDeleteRIP Melbourne hat.