Melbourne Adventures

On the 17th we felt the need for a crustacean evening meal so took ourselves in the direction of the Footscray market to acquire the basic ingredient.  This provides an opportunity to scout the area around the station and the market for matters of interest.  Earlier forays of this nature are in this post and that post .  It is obviously an interesting area and we have much more to cover.  Our route today was intended to be fairly short, as we are both still recovering from foul colds.  The initial focus was the Footscray Community Arts Centre (FCAC) hoping to see some of the installations shown in an arty post Frances found and then heading to Nicholson St for more street art in the same post.  Here, in red, is the route we followed. I was interested to see which Councils got Jeffed to form Maribyrnong.  It was by the standards of that exercise in 1994 (or indeed anything done by Kennett) relatively straightforward with the only complexity being Sout...

 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...