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ChatrinaOh

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Is it small or a long way away ….

Uluru in the distance in the last afternoon

Uluru even further away at sunset when the sky was blues and greys streaked with pink and orange

November 19, 2025 at 12:49 PM

ChatrinaOh

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Good morning / afternoon as I find myself in a different time zone. It’s very hot .. and I’ve had to change to peppermint tea. The view is very Australian. 5G signal is good too.

View from an apartment balcony looking out on to the red soil of the Northern Territories. The sky is very blue and littered with white clouds. There is a surprising amount of greenery in the red soil. A phone mast looms high above the ground.

November 19, 2025 at 7:13 AM

ChatrinaOh

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Good morning / evening. Was a bit late to the tea today but it’s perfect. The sun is shining & today’s aim is to clear the washing backlog here.

The tea bag comes with a message …

The tag from a decaf tea bag with a message printed on it saying “share a saucy secret without losing any sleep”. What’s your saucy secret then?

November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM

ChatrinaOh

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Melbourne you had big buildings

View around Collins Street Precinct up the road with tall buildings on each side. Lots of glass on show

Over the Southern Cross railway station. A walking bridge in the foreground and more tall buildings behind

A different view at Southern Cross. There’s so many tall penis like buildings it feels like a lot of pent up lust went into Melbourne.

Newquay Promenade in the evening sunlight made the building appear to be shades of purples and blues (more tall, glass etc etc)

November 17, 2025 at 1:05 AM

ChatrinaOh

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After all the meat of the past few days I’ve gone for an açai bowl today.

A bowl of fruit, coconut, granola with a drizzle of honey

November 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM

ChatrinaOh

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881 finishers at Albert Park #parkrun this morning. 14th anniversary of it starting. Second international volunteer completed.

Me gurning like a loon with the parkrun frame and a black swan in my arms. Backdrop of water and blue skies

November 14, 2025 at 11:25 PM

ChatrinaOh

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The view

View of the lake in Albert Park around which participants will complete their 5km
Blue skies with fluffy clouds

November 14, 2025 at 8:58 PM

ChatrinaOh

@chatrinao.bsky.social

Melbourne by night.

View from my bedroom looking out over the Marvel stadium in Melbourne. The high rises are lit up and the sky is a dusky blue as the evening draws in. An early night to consider all that I’ve seen over the past week on my travels

November 14, 2025 at 10:03 AM

ChatrinaOh

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Different world in Melbourne. This is the view from my window…..

A view from a neighbouring housing complex down directly into the Marvel Stadium in Melbourne

November 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM

ChatrinaOh

@chatrinao.bsky.social

Turned off the sat nav and just turned as the mood took me and ended up here. It’s right in the middle of a housing estate. You’d never guess.

A small lake surrounded by trees and shrubs. The blue sky reflected in the still waters. Birds are swooping over the surface catching insects and a black swan serenely paddled by

November 14, 2025 at 1:57 AM

ChatrinaOh

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My solo week of driving has been around 900 miles in total. A whole lot of ground covered from lunch in Wollongong to sunset in St Kilda and many places in between. It’s been a fantastic and memorable journey.

Amazing stack of avocado and smoked salmon with a mango salsa and wasabi mayonnaise. Served in a tiny cafe near the Win stadium called Bucks. The wasabi made my eyes water and Wollongong certainly packed a punch.

Looking out to sea near the St Kilda Cenotaph watching the sunset. The sky greys, pinks, yellow, orange and blue streaks. A lone kite surfer’s kite visible in the failing light. A beautiful metaphor for all of the fun, interest and excitement and colours of a week spent alone. I hadn’t realised quite how much I need solitude in a life that is full of people and competing demands.

November 13, 2025 at 1:41 PM

ChatrinaOh

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Unfortunately the necessary glass of wine will be in a tumbler because I do not have either a tall person or a ladder with me.

A small hand on a short person reaches in vain for a wine glass on the top shelf of the kitchen cupboard. Being resourceful I’ll be able to use either a tumbler or a mug (I’m very classy). In the meantime I’m having a mug of tea because I could manage that unassisted.

November 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM

ChatrinaOh

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View from the promenade. Wonderful natural frame.

A bent over tree trunk which looks like it’s breathed its last forms an arch shaped frame looking out to sea. In the centre of the image is a yacht bobbing in the water. The sky is divided in an almost straight line with blue above and white cloud below. In the foreground bushes sprout filling the entire bottom half of the image.

November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM

ChatrinaOh

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Current view is not so bad
Mornington Peninsula (but no Crescent IYKYK)

A beach view from sea level. Blue seas, blue skies, with a deep line of light cloud on the horizon. Small yachts bobbing in the water just off the shore and to the far right (in the only sense that far right is acceptable) are orangey, craggy cliffs. There’s a breeze blowing across from left to right which almost certainly means I’ll end up burnt despite the factor 50

November 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM

ChatrinaOh

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First stop of the day for sustenance. If only you could smell the banana bread

A slice of toasted and buttered banana bread cut into two slices on a white plate.

If you wanted heaven in your mouth, this might be it.

A decaf, skinny cappuccino in a mug with foamy milking rising way above the rim of the mug. They do seem to like a soufflé style coffee in Aus.

November 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM

ChatrinaOh

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More scenes from Walhalla. Always worth checking out the alt text where I put in a bit more information.

The Post and telegraph office in the township colours of yellow and dried blood red. It’s L shaped and has a tin roof, single storey with a canopy over the entrance

The corner stores hosts four or five little shops and although I missed it, if you walk though the shop as if you are going somewhere you shouldn’t it leads you to a small museum. Another thing I managed to miss during my visit. Typical of Australian main roads the shops have a covered walkway over the doors

This is just a tin hut high on a hill, but if you zoom in to the left there’s a creepy as fuck man (a dummy and definitely not a ghost) looking out of the window

Another of the original houses, just glorious in its overgrown garden, it’s actually up for sale. I won’t be putting in an offer, although it would mean I’d get to go on the steam train and visit the gold mine that I’ve missed today

November 12, 2025 at 8:31 AM

ChatrinaOh

@chatrinao.bsky.social

Wandering around Walhalla. It’s a remote old place for sure.

Images of various buildings in Walhalla including this The Star Hotel. A yellow wooden building with a balcony with weight iron railings. It’s next to the OddFellows Hall which had been a chapel before it became a Masonic lodge building. It is made of brick, single story with a central door and a window either side.

Liam Neeson was here for the making of a movie where the Star Hotel doubled as Nepal.

The central bandstand in the town which for some reason was put on very high stilts. It’s cream with dark red trim and hosted the Mountaineer Brass Band. Subsequently it has been used for many other entertainment functions including weddings

Next to the fire station is a very precarious looking wooden outside loo. It almost looks like it is about to slip into the river below. 1/10 for usability these days

The original Walhalla fire station in the same yellow/cream and dark red colouring that is typical in the townships. It straddles a river because there wasn’t any flat land, not as I assumed so that they had easy access to water. Although I’m sure that must have been a consideration.

November 12, 2025 at 8:19 AM

ChatrinaOh

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In a spectacularly poor bit of planning I arrived in a place with just 12 residences in time to say good-bye to the few people who work here. Got distracted and missed the train & gold mine tour. Neither of which I can do before I move on tomorrow. It is however a beautiful place.

My home for the night is a cottage next to the original school. It’s a grey single storey structure with a covered veranda. It has two windows one either side of the door which are not semetrical which is slightly annoying.

I would say it’s built in the style of rather than actually old but the decor is very much my Nan when I was a child. It has everything except WiFi. It does have DVDs for me to watch, although I might give that a miss.

Despite former mishaps with not having food for an evening meal, I was prepared for that and have coq au vin, mash and asparagus to eat. It would probably feed all 12 residents comfortably. Warm wine to go with it. What’s not to love?

November 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM

ChatrinaOh

@chatrinao.bsky.social

It was a Superb Fairy Wren!

Two birds sit alongside each other on a twig in the forefront is a small brown bird with a long tail.

Behind is a similar bird with a brown wing but a bright blue cap, cheek and collar and a hint of blue in the tail.

Of course the fancy one is the male.

November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM

ChatrinaOh

@chatrinao.bsky.social

Any bird people on here? I saw a sparrow like bird today but it had a bright blue collar. Took a genuinely awful photo of it which probably won’t help much. It was hopping around with a completely brown bird which was clearly the same type but smaller so male & female maybe?