Not having been to St Kilda West for a while I took myself off there on the morning of 18 August. Getting off the tram on the Esplanade I took the bridge across marvelling at how the contractors are still managing to find things to at the end of the pier.
When in Peru we marvelled at the work the Incas did cutting out huge blocks of sandstone using leather straps and water as the cutting implements. We imagined a conversation between a child and their grandfather:
"What did you do in your life grandpa?"
"I finished cutting out the building block my grandfather started."
The St Kilda equivalent response, if the ratepayers are lucky, would be replacing 'building block' by 'work on the approaches to St Kilda Pier'.
Whatever. I wandered along the shore seeing few birds (2 Australasian Grebes were the highlight) and out to the water's edge.
A couple of other birders were there ...
... causing me severe lens envy.
After a pleasant conversation with the woman - mainly about Hooded Plovers (of which I have never seen any here) the woman toddled of to find her husband and pooch and I set up my telescope to peer are a Great Crested Grebe and a bunch of Pied Cormorants on the walkway at the end of the Marina. Here is
my birdlist.
Looking across to Station Pier, Spirit of Tasmania 4 is still parked, presumably still awaiting completion of work on the wharf at Devonport (vide reference to Peru above). I presume SoT 5 is still in a similar situation at Williamstown. It is apparently. Hmm: wait and see, although answering another FAQ they say, presumably with tongue in cheek "
This is four months earlier than the previously announced anticipated completion of February 2027." Wikipedia gives a somewhat different view "<The previously used> ships were expected to be replaced by MS Spirit of Tasmania IV and MS Spirit of Tasmania V in 2024 and 2025 respectively."
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