A group of us spent Boxing Day having a picnic lunch in Melbourne’s Botanical Gardens. Great weather, cheese, crackers and sandwiches made for an enjoyable day. It was also an opportunity for to take a few snaps.

Me and the missus drove up to Mount Macedon yesterday to do a little sight seeing and have a bit of a walk around. I also wanted to show Xuan ‘Gravity Hill’ which is a seemingly uphill section of road on Straws Lane that you roll up when you put your car into neutral. The road totally looks like it’s going uphill but when you slip the car into neutral it begins to creep upwards. It’s totally freaky.

We also visited the Memorial Cross which was erected to commemorate the members of the Australian Defences Forces who died in World War 1. The photo below was taken in the gardens surrounding the Memorial Cross site. I thought the rain drops on the leaves would make for a cool photo.

A group of us headed down to Sorrento last Saturday for a barbeque. Lucky for us it was a beautiful 25°C Melbourne day, perfect for the first day of the Australian summer.

We had a massive barbeque feast, a few of beers and kicked the soccer ball around a little. We then spent the rest of the day relaxing on the beach soaking up the sunshine. So yeah, it was mad day.

Below are some of the photos taken on the day. The weird photo of the thing that looks like a transparent piece of poo I think is some sort of jelly fish. Well, that’s my guess anyway.

The girlfriend and I headed up to Geelong and Barwon Heads for the day just to do a bit of sightseeing and walking. It was good to do something a bit more outdoorsy for a change. It was a bit cloudy and grey outside but luckily the rain held back. It was also surprisingly pretty warm.

Firstly, we went to Geelong and did a bit of walking around the Eastern Beach area. Then we drove up to Barwon Heads. We stopped and checked out the Barwon River views and then we went for a walk to Barwon Bluff to check out the rock pools. It was all pretty cool. Check out the photos.

Met up with Tracy for lunch today and afterwards she went back to work and I decided to go for a bit of a walk around and take a few shots of Saigon. This is such a diverse city with its mix of Western and Vietnamese influences making photographs all the more interesting.

Most of the photos were taken today but some where taken about a week ago.