Saturday, October 4, 2008

The drive to Dimboola

We drove off to Melbourne today. We're doing this in two stages, stopping half way. Close to our stop-over there is a salt lake called "The pink lake".

Here Nicole is showing us the Pink lake.

I believe they used to dig up salt here, leaving a big lake. Dried salt is white but 'fresh' salt is actually pink.

After this we continued our drive.

Passing lots and lots of Canola fields.

Then we arrived in Dimboola. There is a train statue.

And an old bank building that the current owner (who found out it's too hard to start a fancy restaurant in Dimboola) was trying to sell us.

The streets were very quiet.

Friday, October 3, 2008

The bowls

I needed some test photos so why not photograph my bowls? And if you have the photos anyway, then why not put them on your blog? I looked for images of these bowls online before but I haven't been able to find them. Maybe people will find them on my blog now.
The first photo was taken with a flash which makes the bowls look much darker. The other photo's show the exact colour.

Bowls info:
- Manufacturer: Taylor (Scotland)
- Type: Vector VS (medium curve)
- Size: 4
- Colour: Orange
- Emblem: Shark

All four in the bag.







Here you can see why they roll in a curve. One side is flatter than the other.

Mall people

On my way to lunch a car stopped right next to me with these dogs in the back. They were following the owner so there was no way they'd look at the camera...

Victoria square was my lunch destination again. I sat there until the rain got too much.

Too much rain.

After work I met Nicole in Rundle mall. While she went into a BAG shop I sat outside snapping away. This girl was wearing beautiful red and black striped stockings.

More photo's of passer's by:















And then Nicole came out so we could continue our evening.

We walked past the fountain. Someone had put washing powder in it. It makes it look like a giant light source.

It's really soap!

Remember the accident last Christmas? Today finally the mess got cleaned up. Well, they made a start. And they also put red and white tape around it coz now it's dangerous. The funny thing is that the guy living there was in there till recently. But now it's dangerous. Hmmm. They put the tape up the wrong way around too.

Now we have to pack for tomorrow's trip. Can't wait. But first: sleep. I'm knackered.

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Lunch at Tarndanyangga

Another day, another false (fire) alarm.

During lunch I walked to Victoria square. It also has an Aboriginal name.

There is a nice fountain.

And the Australian flag as well as the Aboriginal flag are raised there. I quite like the Aboriginal flag. The black stands for the Aboriginal people, the red is the earth (lots of red sand in this country) and the yellow is the sun. Simple, yet powerful meanings. I like it even more now.

Trees are blooming big time at the moment. These flowers are called bottle-brushes I believe.

And then I had to get back to work. I quickly took this picture for an overview of the park.

Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Lets play Bowls!

Today was the kind of official opening of the bowls season for my team. Finally we could enter the green again, have a beer and bowl some ends. Karin seems to anxiously await what's coming ;-)

Gav doing a practise bowl. We were well on time so we bowled for almost 30 minutes before the real start.

My orange bowls stood out a fair bit between all the black and brown ones. The blue ones belong to Darryl and they're the only other coloured bowls I saw tonight.

Darryl (centre) with his female colleagues actually named the team "Dazza and his daisies". Hilarious. Richard(left), myself (less left), Tony (kinda middle) and Gavin (right) are the "Bowls squad".

We had a very good time and the bowling wasn't bad at all.

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The doggie

This doggie was looking at me taking his photo while we were going to work.

For lunch I went to the Thai place again. They had something that looked like oliebollen (oil-balls, a Dutch treat). Can't remember what they really were though.

This plant keeps making new leafs. He must be happy.

So is this one. Making new flowers on one side.

I was driven back home by papa smurf.

Papa smurf dropped me of at the mall where I did some shopping and then walked home. When I got home I was sweaty and stinky and yuck. I ate lovely soup and bread and then I took a shower.

Now I'm going to study again.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Birthday boy Gavin

Walking from work to PJ's. This is a nice and quiet route (for pedestrians, not for cars), excellent for winding down after work.

After PJ's we went to see Gavin because it's his birthday today. In this picture from left to right: Rhys, Karin and Nicole.

Tony and Vicky were there as well.

And this is the birthday boy, Gav. I actually asked him to make a funny face, he is pretty normal usually ;-)

Happy birthday Gav!

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Breaking news!


In preparation for our visit to Melbourne next week we look around Google maps a bit. Now that there is streetview we can also see the actual shop-fronts.

Tonight, Nicole found: Lord of the fries.

THEY HAVE PEANUT SAUCE! AND ALSO "PATATJE OORLOG". Check the sauces and look for "Thai" and "Asian".

I may need to consider moving to Melbourne...