Sooty The Fish

Stuff. Travel Pix (Places, Musicians, Critters, Art, Food, Buildings, Folk etc). Sometimes Straighforward, Sometimes a little Skewed. Occasional Verbage. All Original (or Sooty's Nearest and Dearest's) unless otherwise Stated. Very little Reblogging . . . . . . . . Mostly Harmless.

Permalink Balustrading being unpacked, Bright Moon Chinese Buddhist Temple, Springvale South, Victoria. There to be dragons, of course.
Permalink Twelve Apostles, Victoria Not quite twelve these days, but still good for the postcard shot (with real lens flares, none of that Instagram fakery).
Permalink Millstream Falls, Atherton Tablelands, Queensland Mostly in Australia you trek off to see a waterfall and there’s more of a cliff with a trickle of water falling off it. But not this time.
Permalink corner of a house, Richmond, Victoria There’s no brickwork like fake brickwork.
Permalink John Dory, Richmond, Victoria Ready for baking. It looks a little depressed, which is understandable.
Permalink Chippy, Carlton, Victoria Rupert’s girlfriend, taking in the architecture.
Permalink Antique sherry ad, window of Royston Hotel, Richmond, Victoria Where once alcohol was promoted with a fat clergyman.
Permalink Service Station, Altona, Victoria In the lull before the zombie apocalypse (actually the lull after All Tomorrow’s Parties).
Permalink Corio Bay waterfront, Geelong, Victoria Looking across the bay, past the cut-out shapes on the pier
Permalink Tent House, Mount Isa, Queensland Who needs pyramids? Oz architectural history this is (classified by the National Trust)
Permalink Topiary, Griffith, NSW Happy Oz/Invasion Day all!
Permalink Yen Ming Tang Chinese Buddhist Temple, Sunshine, Victoria From a distance, like a big suburban house. Except there are dragons wrapped around the columns.
Permalink tram, Melbourne [artist Michael Leunig] Just went to the tram exhibition at the Old Treasury Building. Reminded me of this, one of a whole fleet of artist-painted trams in the late 80s/early 90s. Now there’s just advertising all over trams.
Permalink The Cambodian Space Project, live at the Tote Hotel, Collingwood, Victoria The Cambodian psych-pop revival continues!
Permalink John Deere Model H, National Gallery of Victoria, Federation Square, Melbourne [artist John Angus] Ever wanted to warp a tractor? Well it would look like this.