tiabunna's photos

I found this while wandering around my local museum. Hands up if you're able to remember these. :-)

In the Hobart Botanic Gardens. HFF and best wishes for the weekend, everyone.

Rainbow Lorikeets enjoying the different flavours of cactus flowers in the Wollongong Botanic Gardens. The PiP taken shortly after the flying bird reached its target flowers.

The Wollongong Botanic Gardens have a formal Rose Garden (though with few roses at present as it's winter here) . See also PiP. Wishing everyone a Happy Bench Monday with a great week to follow.

Looking northeast at the Bruny Island isthmus. View large to best see the visibility in the lovely clear Southern Ocean air. I'll be absent for the next few days, enjoy yourselves everyone.

Barangaroo area of Sydney, in the shade of the Crown Casino tower. Looks best on black. Happy Bench Monday, everyone, and let's hope for a good week to come.

Catamaran yachts out on Sydney Harbour, the Anzac Bridge in the background.

New buildings in the Barangaroo area of Sydney. The tall tower is the Crown Casino building. The newly developed Baranagaroo area is the only officially Carbon Neutral precinct in Australia, an accreditation it now has held for three years. Yes, there's a fence in the foreground. HFF and have a safe and enjoyable weekend, everyone.

After the Dutch East India Company (VOC) displaced the Portuguese from the East Indies, the original Duyfken officially became the first European vessel to visit the Australian coast in 1606, sailing along the south coast of New Guinea to reach Cape York in Australia's north. This replica of the Duyfken is now in the Maritime Museum in Sydney. Of course, it is very possible that there may have been earlier European visitors, as I outline in this Article I posted some time ago.