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2026 Marathon etc (Long Post)

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The Melbourne Marathon route comes past our front door, which is very close to the white dot on St Kilda Rd.   A clip from the Marathon fly over page.  The arrow points to our apartment. The lead vehicle: note how dark it is,  This is at about the 5km mark. The lead pack: Kipchoge is on the kerb side. Looking South with the pack of cyclists trying to keep up with the leaders. This pack includes the 1st and 2nd female at 4km.  The eventual winner is the blonde woman with a yellow top, towards the rear. Density is increasing. In the distance isn't hard enough ...  Note: from the clothes, that is not the blokes referred to in this ABC article. The orange flag indicates this is the 3 hour aspirants. Trams continued to run past 505!  It must have been stressful for the drivers as not a few spectators seemed unaware of the trams. The reason for this image was the quite upmarket  camera on the LHS being operated by a guy on a bike.  A high risk acti...
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Random photographs in October

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 On our morning walk on 9 October the Fawkner workers were checking the sprinklers.  One of the many pooches - on a long and robust lead - took advantage. On the 10th we walked down to Prahran for a little retail therapy.  After crossing Fawkner Park we found that the residents of South Yarra Square have put back their notices (which had been taken down about mid-year). There are more than this, on Punt Rd as well as Commercial Rd, but you get the idea. I am assuming that they are hoping that with a State election in about 6 weeks they will get a little traction.  Trouble is, I think both main Parties share some guilt for this (and the Orange Blossom Specials would be wondering what the problem is).
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October to Melbourne

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 After a drenching for Mallacoota on the 2nd of October the BoM forecast for our drive to Melbourne on the 4th was quite reasonable.  The radar map also looked quite clear. Thus it was a bit of a surprise to meet fairly steady rain as we went over Mt Drummer.  This continued all the way to about Bruthen (about 120km in a straight line).  The paddocks along the way looked rather waterlogged, and the guy at the servo in Barnsdale said they had heavy rain all night ( according to BoM it had effectively stopped at 0630). There was a lot of water beside the road and in the paddocks as we went towards Stratford.  I supect this was about 15 km from Bairnsdale. We had thought of stopping to fill up with diesel at the Billabong Roadhouse, and to check out the adjacent Nature Reserve.  But diesel was cheaper in Bairnsdale and I hadn't got permission to enter the Nature Reserve so we passed by.  I had heard from the author of an eBird check list that the birds h...
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