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General June wanderings

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 At some point looking at birdy Facebook stuff I got the impression that Bayside Council and its contractors had completed its wrecking of Yalukit Willam Nature Reserve and it was notw open again.  As I really liked the Reserve before it became an earthmovers playground/cash cow I tookmy self off there for a look round.  On arrival I found that the Northern end of the Reserve was now also subject to destruction. There is a lot of PR bushwa about a Gateway Building and such like, but no indication of how to get into what, if anything, was left of the Reserve.  So I set off down Glen Huntly Rd to find out.  As I got to the South end of the Park it was apparent that the appalling works were in fact still in progress.  This is a snap through the chain link fence of the impersonation of the Somme in 1917 represented by what used to be a good birding area. This sign suggests works - at the Southern end - will be finished by April.  Obviously a FAIL but on th...
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CBD(ish)

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 This starts off with some scenes (or 'seens') around the CBD, or close thereto.  The first outing is in the 'close' category of Docklands.  We went there to have a look at the shiop formerly known as the Steve Irwin (now "Ship 4 Good"),  As described in this article  it spent a lot of time protecting whales in the Southern Ocean.  The ship is moored on the Newquay Promenade in Victoria Harbour.  I was surprised to see how small it was forspending much time in the roughest seas on the planet fightig off the whaling fleets. I suspect this pump squirted many litres of water at the forces of evil. The funnel design is quite attractive and I am somewhat surprised, in view of the manner of Steve Irwin's death, to see it featuring a Ray. Moving on a day I had fond a small disaster had occurred with my camera with the UV filter on my biggest lens shattering somehow.  I couldn't get the ring off the camera so took it to Vintech on Lonsdale St for repair....
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A new Project, and Williamstown revisited

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 We have effectively given up on trying to make sense out of goings on the VicRail site about current services on the Frankston and Geelong lines.  So rather than going to those new destinations we went back to Williamstown.   As we settled in to our seats Frances raised what sounds like an excellent Project, somewhat similar to our past "Every Town in NSW" epic. The aim of this is to visit every station in the Melbourne area which was originally built in the Victorian era.  This seems like an excellent suggestion.  There is a need set some rules about which stations qualify because of repurposing and rebuilding.  For example the first station outside the CBD was at Port Melbourne, and while I think the building still exists it is now the Beacon Cove tram stop.  Our current thinking is that as the station is still a public transport facility it gets a guernsey (as would the St Kilda Station on Fitzroy St).  Watch this google Doc for details ....
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