AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes

AUSTRALIA ~ The Antipodes
I love a sunburnt country / A land of sweeping plains / Of ragged mountain ranges / Of droughts and flooding rains / I love her far horizons / I love her jewel-sea / Her beauty and her terror / The wide brown land for me / ~ Dorothea Mackellar (1885-1968)

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Showing posts with label Quarantine Station. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quarantine Station. Show all posts

Sunday, November 29, 2015

a walk with ghosts...


shadowy walkway at the Point Nepean Quarantine Station by Port Phillip Bay...


by the sea
ghosts of colonial days
wander


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Tuesday, July 15, 2014

pipes...


boiler room pipes for the communal showers at the old Point Nepean Quarantine station...


pipe connections
disinfecting and destroying
multi-purpose


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Sunday, June 8, 2014

scenic greens...


view of the landscape round Point Nepean's old Quarantine Station...


trees live on
beyond
old tragedies


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Thursday, June 5, 2014

Quarantine Station warning...


sign at the old Quarantine Station, Point Nepean...


beware
sometimes swimming 
is fraught with danger


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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Old Disinfectant


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A disinfecting chamber used in the early days of settlement for the luggage of new arrivals to Australia at Point Nepean, Mornington Peninsula
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3WW #CCI ~ joke + leverage + remedy
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Tragic history
Old quarantine leverage
Fear of new settlers

Humbling cleansing joke
Remedy for strange disease
Humiliating
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Pics by Gemma Wiseman
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Hosted by Thom @ Three Word Wednesday

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Window on Sorrow


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Reflections framed in a window at the old Quarantine Station, Point Nepean, Mornington Peninsula
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Weekend Reflections #45
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Neglected old worlds
Fragments of first settlers' lives
Chinks of tragedy
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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

From the Point Nepean Quarantine Station...


Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ A view across Port Phillip Bay from Point Nepean's old Quarantine Station newly opening for tourists, Mornington Peninsula
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Outdoor Wednesday #78
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Calm winter morning
Calm seas by past lost lifestyles
Hints of tragedy
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  • A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. ~James Dent
  • Autumn is an introspective season when stray thoughts of the mind dive into the mystique of the soul - Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn is the bridesmaid of Summer and the flowergirl of Winter ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Autumn whispers the tones of yesterday in a minor key ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Love is born / With a dark and troubled face, / When hope is dead / And in the most unlikely place; / Love is born, / Love is always born. - Michael Leunig's Christmas Song Cycle "Southern Star"
  • Spring paints the stars of heaven in Earth colours ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Summer sizzles with a sibilant hush / Broken by dreams of / Clinking ice ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • The object of a new year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul. - G.K. Chesterton
  • Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz
  • Winter is the fire, simmering lonely in the soul ~ Gemma Wiseman
  • Winter is the shadow, the etching of the seasons in the mist ~ Gemma Wiseman

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