Into the Yarra River – trash, cars & elephants
16 June 2021 | Places
Living right on the Yarra River in Melbourne – or close to it over the years – I’m very aware of its varied moods. Most of the time it’s flowing very slowly by the time it gets to me. I’m always surprised, a few km upriver, how it’s always flowing rapidly as it comes ...
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Walking & Cycling up Melbourne’s Yarra River
19 May 2020 | Places
Of course international travel has completely shut down and in Australia even domestic travel doesn’t extend very far. We really can’t travel interstate at the moment. So I’ve been walking and cycling along the Yarra River, the river which runs, from source to sea, fo...
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Kayaks on the Upper Yarra
9 February 2012 | Places
The Yarra River is so tranquil as it flows past my place, close to the centre of Melbourne, Australia’s second biggest city, that it’s hard to believe there are rapids further upstream.
I’ve been out on the Yarra – the ‘muddy Yarra’ as it’s usually described – wi...
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Aussie Wildlife
13 January 2012 | Living
If you’re at the right place and at the right time of day – lots of Australian wildlife is nocturnal – it’s often remarkably easy to encounter the critters and I certainly saw a few over the Christmas-New Year period.
◄ Starting with koalas – lots of wildlife you h...
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Up the Yarra River
2 January 2010 | Places
In 1983 New York City’s Hudson River got a ‘Riverkeeper,’ someone to keep an eye on the health of the river. They make sure companies don’t dump stuff into it, builders don’t shove up ugly and inappropriate buildings beside it and that the river is looked after for ev...
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