December Adventures (part 2)

 The previous post was getting a bit long so I have started a new one!

This begins on 9 December with a drive to Altona for birding and retail therapy.  The birds were quite good, the weather and insects rather less so.  There were a lot (~100) of Pied Stilts, but as far as we could see no Avocets nor Banded Stilts.

A couple each of Common Greenshank and Sharp-tailed Sandpiper.  Both Godwits were present (but not photographed).
Regular waders missing included Red-necked Stint and Pied Oystercatcher.  A large flock of Whiskered Terns were loafing (and 178 counted on two images).
Leaving the beach we attended North Altona mall and then hit the Westgate Freeway.  This was the first time we had done this since the Tunnel opened and I didn't realise quite where we were relative to the start of the tunnel.  Quite soon we were in the Tunnel.  I had intended to visit it sometime soon, just not right now.  Out the far end and with a little prayer and a u-turn we were heading towards the Kingsway.  The idea of the Tunnel is to carry a lot of traffic from Geelong and the M2 away from the bridge: on this trip there was next to no traffic in the Tunnel but the approach to Kingsway was (as usual) chockers.  We made it home.

Later in the afternoon I felt the need for an exercise walk and Frances suggested Seekers Way as a destination.  So off I went, with the temperature at about 30oC with odd spots of rain falling and my Myki card in my pocket.  I got there as proven by this sign
I wandered down the street (above the sunk Dandenong Road expressway) to find the house in which Judith Durham lived (and I think where the band rehearsed: it is the leftmost of these two tiny places.
In view of the weather I decided to use my Myki from St Kilda Junction and seized the chance for a few snaps of the street art.  The first two are at street level.

What follows are in the system of subways under the maze of major roads in this area.
I am unsure if I would walk through these paths after dark
Versions of this face also appears in a lot of the art near the Prahran Arcade.


The final snap for the day came later, with sunset peering through the overcast.


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