Recently I took a short road trip to Port Fairy in Victoria’s south west. The weather wasn’t kind but I came across an old abandoned school at Ardronachie, just outside the small town of MacArthur.
I uploaded this image to my Flickr photostream and shortly after Sean O’Brien added a link to a page that listed the families and children who attended the school in 1872.
http://www.swvic.org/schools/ardonachie.htm
How cool is that!
The first weekend in March 2014 was the 100th anniversary of military aviation in Australia, held at the RAAF base at Point Cook.
I am fortunate enough to live just down the road from the base, now mostly a museum, though the RAAF still use it when required.
Over the two days I had a great seat, on my front balcony. It was great to see some of the old timers still flying, and I saw some planes I hadn’t seen since growing up in Geelong, a few decades ago now.
“In those days a photographer ran his career upon the celebrities who came to him”
~ Mathew Brady, 1891