Another instalment in my photos from ten years ago series – this time it is January 2011. By the beach We start the month down at Queenscliff. Where I found the Queenscliff-Sorrento car ferry. A bridge to the secretive military base on Swan Island. And rode the Bellarine Peninsula Railway. Passing through Marcus station. In […]
January 26 is Australia Day – a pretty shitty excuse for a national celebration given it marks the arrival of the First Fleet in Sydney and the dispossession of indigenous Australians from their land. However something much more fun is this Cantopop cover of an Australian classic. The track is titled 一於少理 (“Yi Yu Shao […]
The other day a pair of advertisement for land sales on Melbourne’s western fringe caught my eye. The first was for an estate in Wyndham Vale, spruiking their residents only water park. While a competing property developer says “don’t pay a premium for facilities you may never use”. You’ll find the water park at ‘Jubilee‘ […]
Head down to Flinders Street Station of an evening, and there is something odd on the screens – two 5.27pm trains to Craigieburn. The first one leaves platform 5 and is the 5.27pm train from Flinders Street platform 5 to Craigieburn via the City Loop. The second is the 5.27pm train from Flinders Street platform […]
Transit Orientated Development is a process that maximises the amount of residential, business and leisure space within walking distance of public transport. But at railway stations in Melbourne’s growing western suburbs, the development is anything but. Caroline Springs We start out at Caroline Springs station, located between town and the tip. A massive car park […]
