Galloping Goose

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On the trestle bridge over the lower end of the Gorge waterway in Victoria.

This is part of the extensive Galloping Goose Trail cycling and walking route.

I used to ride over this bridge on my way to work every day for a few years.

It gets thick frost in the winter and sometimes ice and snow.

Fat tires, under-inflated, helped me to not wipe out on the winter rides.

My closest call was when I very nearly ran over a woman on a road bike with skinny hard tires – she crashed right in front of me.

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Farm Gate

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Another photo from the place I grew up – I have a soft spot for this kind of farm gate.

This gate was not located here though. When I was young it kept horses and later a cow or two in their proper places in the adjacent field.

As the layout of the property changed, and livestock were no more, this gate fell out of use.

Eventually it was repurposed to enclose a small garden area in its current location.

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With Reflection

Reprise II

Another photo from the beginning days of this blog. 

This is part of a series where bring forward a photo or two from an earlier blog that have rarely been seen by most of my viewers (there were so few of you at the beginning).

This was in one of my first posts in Sept 2011 called Fisherman Launching Boat, Clover Point.

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Pumphouse Rubble

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Around back at the red pump house.

I don’t recall what these stones were gathered together for.

I am guessing either during clearing a nearby garden bed, or in anticipation of terracing another one nearby.

I like the way they have weathered and settled in to bedrock, just as the pump house is slowly doing the same.

Still called that even though the pump was removed decades ago.

The square of wood at the far end of the pump house makes me wonder if perhaps we used this a chicken coop when I was kid – a lost memory.

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Pumphouse Door

 

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Another from my first roll through an Olympus mju, or Olympus Stylus (not the mjuii or Stylus Epic that I use all the time).

Most of my first roll was shot in my parents garden, including a few shots around the red pump house.

Still called that even though the pump was removed decades ago.

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Nishan Sahib II