Golly Golly Gee Gee

One of these letterboxes is located nearby. It seems to be made from an old water service or gas cylinder, and I thought its decoration was rather unusual. Then I saw another, about 20km from here, with an uncanny resemblance around the shoes, hands, hairstyle and eyes. Maybe they're related.

Or maybe these letterboxes were immensely popular a few decades ago, like vertical venetian blinds or the drink called Orange Tang.

More local scenery

Our pier was looking a bit photogenic this morning, when I visited to check for happenings around the lighthouse.

Wheels Magazine 1973 Car Of The Year

The local scenery helps make this a very special area of the world. Even our carparks can inspire tears of joy. Like yesterday, for instance, at the Springs.


PS. Longtime readers maye recall I've spotted this same car nearby, long ago. No signs of deterioration - must be very solid engineering. As you'd expect.

Wild wild weather

Dramatic weather visited us at the weekend. I walked to the pier and crept as close as I dared, to snap the photo below.

Fortunately for us armchair adventurers, the corresponding news article points to a gallery of photos snapped from even closer.

And afterward, as you'd expect, there's a bit of mess to clean up.

Signs of intelligent life

Check out this nearby street sign, and particularly the moss upon it - which is almost perfect at following the outline of the letters.

Is this evidence of plants evolving an ability to read and write the English language?

Magic car dust

Of course, no-one ever wants a drought - but one benefit it's brought to our area, is some sensible (and very practical) water restrictions.

The restrictions don't cause any great hardship, but sometimes people can be a little overzealous - for instance, they avoid washing their car windows. Which brings us to another benefit.. car dust graffiti.

Here's one I spotted while delivering recently:


And a few days later, below the window in different handwriting:

Missed by thaaat much

Earlier this week, I spotted a *crunch* in the carpark behind Ocean Grove's hardware store.

As I got closer, I wondered why the crunching driver hadn't backed up to take a look at the damage.

And then it became clear.

Relax folks, false alarm, no crunch at all.
More than 2 millimetres to spare.