Travelog for: Phinook

Hi Everyone,

Today we went with Sue and her family for a family gathering at Harcourt - it was very hot - 35 degrees C so we didn't stay outside for very long. Harcourt valley is a very nice place - there are a lot of apples grown here.




Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Family, Hi Finlay!!

Today it was very very hot - all I could do was sit around on the couch but later in the afternoon the clouds started to build up in the sky

the it got really dark like night time

then we had thunder and lightening for most of the night. The weather is strange here!!

Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone,

This morning when I woke up the sun had gone

there was rain and thunder and lightening, Sue had to go to work so we decided to stay home and watch tv.

Freaky and I shared the remote control - it is called the power button in this house!! 

Later in the day Sue came home with a box - I was very curious

Hey it is another travelling toy

I had better get off the lid so he can get out!!

It is Big Foot and he has travelled all the way from Finland! he has lots of lovely things with him too! We TV's are all talking about having a midnight feast tonight!!

Later we all got together to say goodbye to SchokoCookie - he is off to Norway tomorrow. He has a special blanket to keep him warm in case it is still cold over there.


Love and hugs

Phinook
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Hi Everyone,  Hi Finlay!! 

Another TV arrived today - it is LittleLucy from Germany - she has been in Japan for a visit and now is here with us.
Hope you are all well - hugs to Finlay


Love
Phinook
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Hi Everyone!  Hi Finlay 

We are heading for St Leonards for the weekend but we stopped to get some bollard photos at Geelong on the way.  The bollards tell the story of the history of Geelong and are all along the beach front at both Western and Eastern Beach. We have seen just a few.

these are the life savers - it is a bit windy here my ears are blowing everywhere!! 

Here is the sea captain at Cunningham Pier

and another travelling man - I think he is ready to go he is checking his watch? What do you think?

Here we are looking to the boat marina and Eastern Beach

this beautiful lady was talking to

this sailor off a ship! 

More soon

Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone! Hi Finlay! 

We are here at St Leonards and bot it is windy!!


Diddl-Maus and I had to hang on so we didn't get blown away!! Sue told us the water here is usually calm because it is the Port Phillip Bay not the ocean - but it gets very rough in windy weather.

Getting blown inside out here!! Heading back to the house now, more soon,

Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone! Hi Finlay! 

Oh Boy! It is windy and raining today - no fun for going to the beach! 

We had a look from the car

Mmmm...stuck my head out the window

Nup, too windy and wet and cold!

Too rough at the boat launching ramp too - off home again for me!

Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone! Hi Finlay! 

Maybe today is a good day for the beach??    I am ready!!


Wow it is a different place today! We are going for a walk along the beach behind me


But first we take in the atmosphere!! 


Ah look, someone must have lost their balloons in the windy weather yesterday - they are stuck in the power lines!!

very nice here today!!

Love and hugs

Phinook
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Hi Everyone!  Hi Finlay!!

Today we took Diddl-Maus to the Zoo - she achieved one of her missions!!

I tried to sniff this butterfly in the butterfly house but as I got close it flapped away!! 

Here is part of the elephant family

Off to see the orang utans - and we did but Sue was so busy looking she didn't take any photos for us to show you!! 

Mmmm....we must be in the Africa section now - there is an ostrich and a zebra

Hey Finlay , more gray kangaroos,

an emu

and two koalas up a gum tree!!

some baboons watching me watching them!!

some little piggy people called Peccaries

off to see the seals now

we liked this sign outside

They swim really fast!!

Mmmmmm.......lunch!!

a little rest in the Japanese Garden before we head home

I liked this seat back Finlay, with the monkeys on it.

I mad a friend!! You could have sat on this guy Finlay for a photo!!
That's all from the Zoo!

Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone! Hi Finlay 

Today we gave Meav a big hug goodbye - she is travelling on to Germany now.



Love to all
Phinook
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Hi Everyone !  Hi Finlay!!

Tonight we are staying in the city

this is inside the hotel building - this is a very old building that has been renovated and turned int o a hotel but some of the old features have been kept - like this window which is in the inside courtyard


More tomorrow
Love and hugs
Phinook

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Hi Everyone! Hi Finlay! 

Today we left the hotel

here I am in Little Bourke Street looking towards Chinatown

we drove and parked down near the Yarra River - here I am looking at the new soccer and rugby stadium - at night the roof panels light up and show different colours

looking towards the city

BigFoot and I are sitting on one of the bridges that crosses the Yarra - behind us is the MCG - the Melbourne Cricket Ground where the Australian Rules football is played and of course the cricket!! 

St Paul's Cathedral

Flinders Street train station
This weekend is the Moomba festival so there are side shows, water skiing and lots going on around the city and by and on the river



This man made this for the Birdman Rally - people make a flying machine and jump into the river - the idea is to fly/glide 10 metres, most just go straight down!!   This man made a Dame Edna statue - sadly as I about to take a photo it blew over and the head fell off!! I say it later on the news and it was fixed but went straight down in to the water!

Now we are walking back along the other side of the river away from the city and the crowds of people

Back past the soccer stadium

Second last look at the river (some people call it an upside down river because of it's colour  )

A few quiet minutes sitting before we go across the bridge to where the car is parked.

Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone!  Hi Finlay!! 

Today Sue was weeding the garden and doing the washing and other boring things!!


I played weight lifting with the garden Buddha!!


BigFoot and I nearly got thrown out with the weeds - we had to scramble over the side of the container!! 

Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone! Hi Finlay! 

Today we got to have a snack of cheese and biscuits because Diddl-Maus achieved a life mission which was to eat Swiss cheese!! We need more of these missions!!!



Love and hugs
Phinook
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Hi Everyone!! Hi Finlay!! 

Today we had a walk on the beach here, it was cloudy but not cold, and there were lots and lots of dogs on the beach!


Here I look like I am flying over the water!!



a little sit on the beach


the Blairgowrie Yacht Club buildings.

Love and hugs

Phinook
xxooxx