It’s been a little over 12 months since I got back from my year living in Saigon and now it’s time to head off again. This time it’s across to the other side of the world to London. I’ll be travelling with my girlfriend Xuan and we’ll be basing ourselves there for a year long working holiday. Our flight leaves tomorrow night for Singapore. We’ll be spending a few days in Saigon and Singapore before making our way to London. It’s going to be so much fun!

I’ll leave with a photo I took today of the Melbourne city skyline which was taken from Skyline Drive in Maribyrnong, a suburb in Melbourne’s inner west.

Last night we headed into the city in Melbourne to take some photos. Xuan had her brother’s old SLR and she wanted to experiment with some night photography. It also gave me a chance to play around with my new Canon IXUS 960 IS compact digital camera that I recently picked up.

Although the quality of the night shots taken with my compact camera don’t really compare to those of the SLR, it still managed to take some reasonable photos after some playing around with the shutter speed settings. The photo below was one of the better shots taken with the compact. It is of the Yarra River taken from the bridge on St Kilda Road. On the left is Southbank and the right is Flinders Street Station.

Xuan and I headed down to the Yarra Bank Reserve in Burnley (An inner city suburb of Melbourne) yesterday afternoon to get a bit of outdoorsy time. I’ve never been to this part of the Yarra River so it was nice to get out for a walk and take a few photos.

The park has a nice walking track along the river, a public barbecue area and a small playground. Here are a few photos I took on the day. Photos 2 and 9 were taken by Xuan.

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.

I had dinner with the missus in Footscray last night and while in the carpark we noticed all these seagulls just hanging around apparently not doing not much at all. I thought it looked a little weird. I know, you’re probably thinking, ‘Seagulls hanging around is just what they do. That’s not weird.’ But it just all looked a little not quite right for some reason. It was like they were waiting around for something.

After we finished dinner and made our way back to the carpark the seagulls were still there. It was pretty bizarre because even when cars got really close to them they didn’t seem to really want to move. They just like walked out of the way.

Anyways, I though the seagulls would make for a interesting photograph so yeah, here you have it.