An article from 1942 in The Argus describes this building and its associated business in great detail. It's the shot tower now house...

This is Gab Dellios' trading area at the Melbourne Wholesale Fruit Vegetable & Flower Markets . This market hosts most of the whole...

Melbourne coffee is just so good, it warrants two posts. This is a latte (left) and flat white, prepared by the careful and cheerful barris...

A bow-tied professional, working around a mass of gleaming steel and steam, can mean only one place. Brunetti's ! It's expensive, b...

Golden Wattle looks fantastic up close, but large groves of it are even more spectacular. It's the Australian national flower. A good ...

Taking pictures of a koala is vastly preferable to running over a koala, and quick braking avoided this sort of situation . This fellow scu...

Failed resorts are not unusual, but this one is. Its the abandoned beginnings of the Sheraton Rarotonga. The Cook Islands government partic...

This is the view looking northeast from Raemaru , the flat topped mountain of Rarotonga. It's flat because the neighboring islanders of ...

The Island Night we attended at the Pacific Resort in Muri Beach, Rarotonga was fantastic. The underlying nature of it was serious, powerf...

This is the interior of the upper floor of the disused Para O Tane Palace. It was officially the seat of power of Makea Nui Teremoana Ari...

This perfectly regular grid is the Sunset District of San Francisco. The contours of the land are visible as the only disturbance to the ru...

This Pacific Sea Nettle (Chrysaora fuscescens) is a ravenous carnivore, but it's not poisonous enough to kill you. Here it spends its d...

The Oregon Pioneer is a massive statue atop the State Capitol in Salem. It looks fantastic at night with its gold gilding. It was crafted...

These are the hydraulic controls for a compact knuckle-boom (or loader crane) on a dock in Anacortes. It's rated for 9650 lbs, but its ...

This is the Glines Canyon Dam in the Olympics, soon to be removed by the National Parks Service. At 200ft high, it is clearly an impenetra...