More Brutalism, Sydney Masonic Centre
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Love this brutalist architecture at Sydney Masonic Centre. Reminds me of Uni #Brunel #alumni
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One more Blue Tongue pic
Here’s a clearer shot. The white marks on the head are from crawling through what looks like an old bag of cement that must have been dumped in the garden. You can handle them if you need to move them out of harms way or relocate them, but they can have salmonella so you’d need to wash your hands afterwards. Also, if handled roughly they can drop their tails so exercise caution.
Thought I saw a snake…
One of the things I love about Sydney is being only 20 minutes from the city centre but having plenty of wildlife on your doorstep (sometimes literally).
Saw this disappearing into the undergrowth in the garden on Friday and assumed it was a snake. Didn’t have my camera at the time so spent the next few days trying to get a snap. Unfortunately, it was always basking in a place where it saw me before I spotted it…
…here’s its head visible in the undergrowth. A herpetologist would be able to tell from this that it’s not actually a snake…
…eventually caught a better glimpse of it and realised that it was a bit shorter than I’d assumed…and it had legs…
…so a perfectly harmless Eastern Blue Tongue lizard (the black stripe behind the eye was the giveaway)…
…this actually quite a large one, getting on for 50 cm I reckon…
…these bricks are 25cm each and it’s about the length of two so that would mean it’s at least two years old.
Bieber Fever still rife in Mosman
Think they missed Council Clean Up day and are hoping a rabid fan will take it away.
Early morning walk to Middle Head
Ferry heading towards North, South and Middle Head all visible (Photo taken from Middle Head)
Looking towards Manly from inside the fortifications
Out towards North Head and the Tasman from inside one of the old fortifications
Looking towards The Spit, Grotto Point Lighthouse visible on the right
One of the old gun emplacements at Inner Middle Head Forts
Part of the fortifications leading to one of the old gun emplacements
Looking into one of the old emplacements
Jane made a Pav!
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another early morning walk
Balmoral from Carroll’s Lookout, you can just make out the early morning swimmers and a couple of stand up paddlers
Looking out to the Tasman, North Head on the left
Looking back to Balmoral from Rocky Point Island
early morning walk
Winter on Sydney’s lower north shore isn’t very harsh. These were taken yesterday morning around 7am when I went for a constitutional.
Chinamans Beach
Derelict boat house
Looking east across Middle Harbour and out to the Tasman Sea, Grotto Point on the left.
At low tide you can sometimes make it around to the Spit without getting your feet wet. Not today though.
Pelicans at The Spit
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In The Pharmacy 