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| Car from "Dirty Dancing"
Using our Fernie property, we arranged for a house exchange
on the east side of Melbourne. It was a good location with easy rail
transportation downtown, but not far from the mountains and parks. When we
emerged from the subway station downtown, we were standing in front of a
theater with the stage show “Dirty Dancing” playing. We got tickets, a quick
lunch, and then we watched the performance.
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| Sulfur Crested Cockatoo |
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| JFK Memorial in Melbourne |
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| Tasmanian Devil |
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| Flinders Station
Melbourne proved to be an easy and interesting city to tour.
There was free transportation around the Central Business District. We
visited the Melbourne Museum, the impressive Royal Botanical Gardens and The (Captain
James) Cook House. Graffiti has been raised to an art form here. You can watch
the artists at work in the alleyways. The architecture stands out because it is
so colorful.
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| Kookaburra |
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| St Patrick's Cathedral
Outside the city we went to William Ricketts Sanctuary. Mr.
Ricketts was an odd fellow, but his sculptures convey the message of the
destruction of Aboriginal culture by the Europeans and how all living things
are part of the natural world which must be preserved. All of the critters that
Australia is known for, we found at Healesville Sanctuary. We also took a trip
across town to visit with Pat’s second cousin, Charles Potter, whom she had not
seen for about 50 years. The week pasted quickly and then it was time to fly to
Perth in Western Australia.
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| William Ricketts Sanctuary |
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| Koala |
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| Reunion with Charles Potter |
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