Starting up in Civic

This is just to start some posts about our move to an apartment in Civic. Or Canberra City or 'City" or Canberra - I really can't determine what the area is called, but it the centre of Canberra on the Northern side of Lake Burley Griffin.

This first image puts the building in the neighbourhood context.
 The second gives an idea of the views to the West and North.
  • Point 1 is Mount Coree;
  • Point 2 is (I think) One Tree Hill; and
  • Point 3 is the northern end of Mt Majura.
  • Home (ie former home at Carwoola) is not visible although from some angles Taliesin Ridge, immediately behind it, is.
The distant view of the area between the purple lines is blocked, mainly by Black Mountain, but with an assist to the NE by the high rise across Akuna street.  Distant views to the ENE (roughly a line from the house to Point 3) are also blocked in this case by Mounts Ainslie and Majura.

This view looks across North Canberra and Gungahlin to One Tree Hill.
The large lump on the rhs is Black Mountain, with Mt Coree adjacent to it, and the Brindabellas running South from there..  We could have some nice views of snow in the Winter.
Thinking more about the weather this flag on a crane shows the direction (here, Easterly) and indicates the strength of the breeze.  I consider it unAustralian of the CFMEU to have given up on the Eureka flag!
I have no idea what the middle flag in this set represents.  It  isn't quite right for an historic English Red Ensign, and the current British Red Ensign has the Union Jack in place of the red cross in a white canton.
Thanks to friends Rob and Carol I now know the middle flag is that of Tonga.  I might take myself for a walk to find out why that flag is on a building site in the middle of Canberra!  That walk has been took, and there are two reasons:

  • it was put there "after the game" - presumably when they whupped NZ in the 2017 Rugby League World CUP; and 
  • reflecting that there are a lot of guys from Tonga - including my informant - on the site.


The following view is about the least appealing aspect from our window.  The roof top carpark of Target.  To get a feel for the sort of person that parks there, note the donut!  (It says something about the quality of our double glazing that (or our tiredness recently) we didn't hear this being laid.
A representation of the perpetrator
A wide angle sunset.
A tighter sunset, with crane!
This may reflect the work of the donut merchant but I am puzzled how they got it up there!

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