Ski Buller

We Headed up to Mt Buller for the day yesterday - we had initially decided to go on Saturday, but the forcase was crappy, so we put it off for a day. Just as well, as it was a beautiful day, with better visibility that I've ever experienced at Buller in the past.

I managed to ski every single run on the mountain, while Michelle had a boarding lesson, and watched the Olympics in the bar.

Managed to get a very nice view back towards Stirling in the late afternoon...

Lunch in Paynesville

Headed down to Paynesville on the Gippsland Lakes for a quick lunch of fish and chips today. I hadn't been down there for a couple of years, when I was down there for a long weekend with Michelle and Bevan, who are now in Geraldton.

The wind would have blown a dog off a chain, but the day was beautiful nevertheless...





This cormorant looked for all the world like a penguin from a distance, so I had to take a closer photo of him...

And he STILL looks like a penguin on a post! :-)

Some Images from Bruthen

Drove across the Great Alpine Road today, from Wangaratta to Bairnsdale. The weather on the way up to Mount Hotham was so bad, that I had about 5 meters visibility. I was dying to get out of the car, and take a photo of one of those orange snow poles, with the sign on the top saying "Keep to the Right of Poles", as it was kind of ironic you couldn't see them! Plus, it was too damn cold to get out of the car! Hoping from the fact that I got snowed on at Mount Hotham, we will have a better ski season that last year!

Once past Mount Hotham (I stopped to ask if there was any black ice on the road towards Bairnsdale), the weather cleared up rapidly, and I was soon at the other end of the Alpine Road, having had lots of fun on the winding road between Omeo and Bruthen - must come back in a car that doesn't have 300 kg of computer gear in the back sometime!

Saw a few old relics worthy of snapping photos of on the way down into Bairnsdale


Poor, old Chimney - having a lay down


Old Bruthen Rail Bridge - Must come back and ride the rail trail one of these days


Short, Succinct, and to the point...

Abandoned

The remnants of an old galvanized bucket, in the bed of the Murray River at Thompson's Beach near Cobram..

Amazing what you spy when you're in a conference call... :-)

Hell of a meeting room!

Had to dial into a couple of meetings this morning. Given I'm currently on the road, doing some work for Vic Roads, I was in Cobram, so figured Thompson's Beach on the bank of the Murray River was as good a spot as any to be while I took the calls...

What a meeting room!

Interesting Architecture

This is one of the aspects of the new Customs House at Docklands in Melbourne... Pretty radical architecture :-)