Saturday 31 December 2011

Mid-north coasting

I'm just back from a week staying with my mother near Port Macquarie, on the NSW mid-north coast. We took a couple of drives inland to the Comboyne Plateau, Ellenborough Falls and Walcha.  It's a beautiful part of Australia - rugged mountains with tall eucalypts and leafy tree ferns and valleys of lush farming land.


 Rural mailboxes...near Elands

 St Mark's Anglican Church at Marlee (between Elands and Wingham), built in 1874 and surprisingly still going. 

  Probably time for a new cross though

It's a damp part of the country - where there's timber, there's lichen and moss.


 Shack

 
Tiny black ant says hello from Apsley Falls, near Walcha

Along the long and winding road between Wauchope and Walcha.

Next time: Tasmania

Sunday 18 December 2011

Fixer-upper

Or a knock-down-and-start-over. Kent Street, Richmond

Saturday 17 December 2011

Pink

Those leaves look a bit like tongues...

Sunday 11 December 2011

Sparkle

Close up of Christmas star decoration on Flinders Street

Saturday 10 December 2011

Thunderdomes

Well, it looked threatening, but nothing happened.
 
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