Wednesday 28th June - PICS UPLOADED

**PHOTOS UPLOADED**

Hmmm i haven't been doing very well keeping this blog updated have I?

Well i have been busy with the underworld in Melbourne, murders, suicides, accidents, you name it and i've been there or at least seen the aftermath. I'm learning lots and getting a feel of whether i could do forensic pathology as a future career.

Apart from that i have now moved out of central Melbourne and am now living in the suburbs (Pascoe Vale)with someone from work. I have yet to explore the area, but it seems ok, there is a McDonalds 2 mins away. Only problem is now i have a 45 minute commute to work rather than a 7 minute one. The great thing is that it costs much less than living in the CBD and i can therefore use the money to do other stuff.

Last weekend I did some good stuff;

Sat morning i headed off down to St. Kilda and had a wander along the pier stopping for a coffee and to watch the sea birds dive bomb fish from a great height. I also saw some native penguins living in the breakwaters of the pier (they were all huddled together in some rocks so no photos - sorry :( )

After that i headed back to the city for a guided tour, as it is winter and there are not very many tourists, the tour 'party' consisted of me and ..... the guide. During the city tour i began to understand the saying of 'Melbourne - the city where you can experience 4 seasons in one day'.
The tour was quite good and its always interesting to hear about inner city history, and architecture from someone who knows a little bit about it, otherwise you miss alot of stuff. The tourguide told me about how fast Melbourne had developed, gave me an overview of some of the famous characters of Melbourne, and let me know why Melbourne is also known as "Smellbourne"

After the tour I visited the Melbourne museum, there was a very good 'LIFE' exhibition on, which included a tropical rainforest indoors, a Darwin evolution exhibition, lots of animal exhibitions and a human anatomy and autopsy exhibition (coals to Newcastle anyone??!). I began to get all light headed when i heard some girl describe the layout of the human instestines to her boyfriend/husband ...... "of course the large bowel comes before the small bowel you great galah ...." i patiently stood next to them and bit through my tounge ;)

Sunday morning, i headed off south east on a train and ended up in a place called Brighton Beach. From there i followed an art trail south for about 10K's to a place called Black Rock. The Port Philip Bay coastline is pretty amazing (and so are the houses the line it) - apparantly I saw Shane Warnes house, although at the time i didn't know that! The art down the coast was mainly landscape paintings from the 1800's (i appreciate landscape art alot)

During the walk i came across the most facinating public toilet, all automated an when you take a leak, it plays music. If you are in there for longer than 10 mins, a loiter alarm sounds and the doors open (God help those people who like to take their time, or are feeling a little bunged up!)

Sunday afternoon i went up the Rialto towers, 251m (824ft) above Melbourne, with great panoramas. Needless to say i spent the whole time leaving my sweaty palm prints all over the oberservation deck towers (not a big fan of heights!)

Anyway, feel free to check out my melbourne photos (starting at Newcastle Airport upto about yesterday - they can be found here >>