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Queenscliffe. The Queenscliffe Hotel built in 1887 with Queen Anne features including an octagonal tower. Great cast iron lace work on the verandas and extensive wooden decoration. .
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Queenscliffe at the entrance to Port Phillip Bay. The defensive fort built between 1863 and 1867. Now a miiltiary history museum.
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Queenscliffe. The former Anglican rectory.
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Queenscliffe. The Railway Station 1881. In 1879 the railway from Geelong reached the town. Now the Bellarine Peninsula Railway trips. Since 1976 the Preservation Society. .
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Queenscliffe. Bellarine Peninsula. The Anglican church built in 1864. Painted stucco. The tower was added in 1878. The land for it was donated by Governor La Trobe.
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Queenscliffe. Bellarine Peninsula. The Anglican church built in 1864. Painted stucco. The tower was added in 1878. The land for it was donated by Governor La Trobe. Nave and altar.
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Queenscliffe. The ferry that crosses Port Phillip Bay from Queenscliffe to Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula.
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Farrell Flat. Near Clare. The 1873 Catholic Church was demolished because of walls cracking. This Romanesque style church opened in 1912. Clooed 1986. Now a private residence.
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Dendrobium lindleyi Steud., Nomencl. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 490 (1840)
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Marree. Old Commonwealth Railways carriage in a backyard. One used on the Ghan service from Port Pirie to Marree where the guage changed from standard to 3'6..
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Marree. The disused Oodnadatta and Alice Springs railway line heading north from Marree. The line to Alice Springs opened in 1929 and closed in 1980. Beside the tracks is a temporary lake after heavy spring rains.
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Marree. The Marree Hotel was built in 1882 expecting the Great Northern Railway to reach the town in 1884.
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Port Lincoln. The first railway station was built in 1907 when a railway to Edillillie was built. This two storey stone station was built in 1927. This is the platform side.
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Marree Railway Station. Old decorated train engine.
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Wilpena Pound in the Flinders Ranges. The old original Wilpena Chalet building with modern additions.
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Ikara Flinders National Park. Wilpena Creek carved a deep gorge providing the only entry exit from the flat centre of the Pound. The Pound is a natural ampitheatre surrounded by high mountains.
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Flinders Ranges. A view of Wilpena Pound from Huck's Lookout. A popular painting spot for Sir Hans Heysen.
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Geelong. The foundation stone of the Art Gallery was laid in 1914 with the gallery opening in 1915. Paintings were first hung in the Town Hall in 1895.
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Winchelsea. Facade of Barwon Park house. Near Geelong.
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Geelong. La Trobe Tce now the highway. Four ages of architecture in one city block. Left 1913 Art Nouveau house. Right 1860s French doored residence. beside these Art Deco and 1880s Victorian
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Geelong. Yarra Street. The altar and apse in St Mary's Catholic Church. Work began in 1854. The church opened in 1872. All work was completed in 1937.
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Harrow. Across the Glenelg River from the oval and the rest of the town is the weatherboard Catholic Church. Built in 1876 and moved across the river around 1900. Open by 1903. In Glenferrie street. The presbytery next to it was built in 1922.
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Harrow. Offices built in 1868 for the Road Construction Authority. Later became the Kowree Shire Council Offices.
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Harrow. Historic village on the Glenelg River. Above Gardner Park is Kalang Cottage built in 1876 near Harrow but only moved to this site in the town in 1988.
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Streaky Bay. A sand sculpture on the esplanade.
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Streaky Bay National Trust Museum. A pioneer's 1880s pine and pug cottage with a hessian lined ceiling. Eyre Peninsula.
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Kimba. Eyre Peninsula. The night time illuminated silo art on some of the town's wheat silos.
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Cowell. Franklin Harbour Eyre Peninsula. The latest South Australian silo art. Being completed in September 2019. The artist is Austin Moncrieff and the local cameleer depicted is Lionel Deer with his camel Diamantina.
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Strathalbyn. A panorama of the cemetery. This old section of the town cemetery contains the graves and headstones of many early Scottish settlers including the Rankine McLean and other families.
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Strathalbyn. Piooneer settler David Gollan who built the flourmill in 1850 built this grand residence next to the mill in 1849. Detail of a chimney through the leaves. The house is called Water Villa.
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Kingston in the South East of South Australia. The giant crayfish cooked and ready for the table. Impressive detail.
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Kingston in the South East of South Australia. The giant crayfish cooked and ready for the table. Kingston still has a crayfish industry and you can buy cray sandwiches in the town.
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Kingston in the South East of South Australia. Sunrise with a passing shower on the horizon.
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Galong. A Rusconi carved marble headstone for Anastasia Barry Ryan.
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Macclesfield. Old town garage with fading signage.
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Macclesfield. The Anglican Church built in 1926 in local marble stone. It replaced an early 1857 church which was demolished around 1980. Most Macclesfield marble was used for grave headstones and the SA War Memorial.
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Rotorua. The sulphur coloured edge of Champagne Lake in the geothermal volcanic park of Wai O Tapu.
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Rotorua. Painting of the crystalline terraces which once stood near Lake Tarawera. It was destroyed by a mighty volcanic eruption in 1886. The village of Te Wairo was destroyed and buried by the eruption is now uncovered
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Rotorua. Painting of the crystalline pink lake terraces which once stood near Lake Tarawera. It was destroyed by a mighty volcanic eruption in 1886. The village of Te Wairo was destroyed and buried
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North Adelaide. Christ Church choir in the southern transept. Built in 1849 as the pro cathedral for Adelaide.
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New Plymouth. Reflections on the lake in Brooklands Park and gardens. Cherry blossom and red bridge.
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Antique plant drawn by Pierre-Joseph Redouté(1759-1840 ) by rawpixel.com
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Bungaree Station. in the Clare Valley. Property established 1842. Wheat and canola in early spring.
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Clare Chimney on the side wall of the old Courthouse. It was built in 1878 in local stone
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Aelaide. Beaumont House headquarters of the National Trust. Given to them in 1968. Built as Claremont House for Anglican Bishop Short in 1851.
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Coromandel Valley. Alexander Murray built this huge stone jam and biscuit factory in 1857. It closed in 1903 and is now a difficult to see private residence.
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Albury. Ettamogah Pub on the outskirts of the city. A weird structure.
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Maldon Railway Station. Ram and passengers waiting.
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Kimba. The old General Store from the 1920s. In the town village museum.
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Port Lincoln. The Port Lincoln Hotel on the esplandade overlooking the harbour.
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Goolwa Wesleyan Methodist Church built in 1861. The transepts were added a few years later.
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Goolwa. The distinctive half rounded roof of the railway superintendents residence completed in 1854.
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Penfield. Sturton Primitive Methodist Church.Opened 1856. Closed 1892. Mainly attended by members of the Jeffries family. All burials in cemetery are Jeffries.
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Clare Valley. Bungaree Station. Interior of the Anglican Church on the Hawker property. The stained glass windows have recently been restored. WEA group visit.
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Huskisson. On Jervis Bay NSW.
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Blanchetown. On the Murray River. The old state school. Built in 1868 as a town school before the government education act of 1875 established state schools. Was used until a few years ago. Still on the school campus but derelict.
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Norfolk Island. Kingston penal settlement. The old Commissariate Store built in 1835. Now All Saints Anglican Church.
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Lake Condah. Remains of 1,700 year old Aborginal stone house.
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Lake Condah near Heywood. Remains of Aboriginal stone eel traps. Aboriginal cutlural guide Eileen.
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