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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.   We took our walk in the Park to Toorak Rd and then walked back along St Kilda Rd.  As it got close to 0800 hrs I went out onto the middle of the road to watch the leaders come through.  There was a bit of a lag but I passed the time chatting to Claudia, from a building a few up the road from 505 (who was running the Half, starting at 9:45 when the temperature was forecast as 19C).  She was following Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya, who was leading, on a tracker app.  The app was fairly hopeless in Albert Park showing them running the Lake in reverse! The motorcycles suggest he is getting close. Here he is, looking as though he is going rather smoothly.   He was about 90 seconds in front of #2, after whom there was a big gap - at least 4 minutes to #3.  I liked this group of followers on bikes with trailers. Leading female who was I think jus...
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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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