I'm getting used to driving around again and I've rediscovered just how much I like driving. I haven't gone very far yet, it's taking me a while to build up my internal map. I grew up in Adelaide but I grew up in the north of the city, now I'm living in the southern suburbs it's a whole new world all over again.
I revisited a beach I spent a lot of time at in my teenage years, the pub was right on the beach front and was open until midnight so it was a great place to be on a hot summer evening. Grange Beach.
Also on that beach front are some old English style terrace houses. They look beautiful but they're impossible to live in in summer. The poms didn't have much imagination when it came to architecture, for them putting verandas on the front was a wild innovation but they were still used to building so that walls and windows captured the heat of the sun. Once those walls heat up the inside of those buildings is like an oven, no airconditioning can counter it, the walls get hot to touch.
I went down to Victor Harbour again, I went very early in the morning thinking that weather conditions would be good for capturing a pretty sunrise, but that didn't really happen. The weather once again turned against me. I'm not sure exactly what sort of bird this is but she decided to nest right on the side of a footpath, she almost looks like a seagull but she's the size of a small eagle. I'll have to look at some bird identifiers later.
And a sign you don't see every day, it's because of a tourist operation giving people horse and camel drawn wagon rides over to the island.
I revisited a beach I spent a lot of time at in my teenage years, the pub was right on the beach front and was open until midnight so it was a great place to be on a hot summer evening. Grange Beach.
Also on that beach front are some old English style terrace houses. They look beautiful but they're impossible to live in in summer. The poms didn't have much imagination when it came to architecture, for them putting verandas on the front was a wild innovation but they were still used to building so that walls and windows captured the heat of the sun. Once those walls heat up the inside of those buildings is like an oven, no airconditioning can counter it, the walls get hot to touch.
I went down to Victor Harbour again, I went very early in the morning thinking that weather conditions would be good for capturing a pretty sunrise, but that didn't really happen. The weather once again turned against me. I'm not sure exactly what sort of bird this is but she decided to nest right on the side of a footpath, she almost looks like a seagull but she's the size of a small eagle. I'll have to look at some bird identifiers later.
And a sign you don't see every day, it's because of a tourist operation giving people horse and camel drawn wagon rides over to the island.
