Sat 06.Jun.2026
Melbourne AU
Imagery Mar 2026
In the course of ten days in Melbourne, I visited a half-dozen or so
neighborhoods, many more than once.. Tonight's pictures do the same.
Residential Carlton, my home base.
Is that an honest-to-goodness Greek bouzouki hiding behind those reflections in the
window? And - in some alternate timeline - did Bo Diddly play a red square dobro
instead of his signature guitar?!?
The Central Business District (aka CBD)
In the Federation Square shopping and leisure complex.
Parliament Gardens, in front of the Victoria (state) Parliament House.
Along the river front by Federation Square.
Flashback:
pigeons in Christchurch, playing at being ducks.
Their Melbourne bretheren.
Don't these southern folk have actual ducks?!
A congenial brunch cafe in Carlton.
A regular hang-out for me.
Local company for brunch.
(You'll never squawk alone!)
Ribit!
Family lore says my great-grandfther is buried in Melbourne. Some googling gave me
a section name and grave number in this cemetery in a suburb north of the center.
(I really should have read the name on this high-rise grave - what if it was
"Wang", or "Dong"? The things I'll never know!)
My online search had told me that Great-Grampa's grave is unmarked - all I knew was
section name and grave number.
The sections were confusingly (and inadequately)
signed. Worse, few of the graves had visible numbers, and many were unmarked. In
more prosperous times, there might have been an information office, to aid in finding
people's loved ones; not so now.
The bottom line: I never found him with any certainty.
I did get an interesting afternoon's activity out of the quest.
Back in the CBD, a flashy indoor shopping mall straddles a downtown street.
This corridor connects the two sides, above street level.