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I had a couple of hours in Melbourne this week and decided to go for a walk around the inner suburb of Fitzroy and check out the street art.
More to follow.
Fitzroy Falls is part of Morton National Park in the southern Highlands of New South Wales in Australia. Small creeks and rivers dramatically drop over sandstone cliffs, deep into the canyons below. This geology is quite common around the Sydney area.
Fitzroy (also known as Cerro Fitzroy, Cerro Chaltel, Chaltén, and Monte Fitz Roy, 3,375 meters / 11,073 feet) is the highest spire in a compact range of granite (granodiorite) peaks in Parque Nacional Los Glaciares, in Argentine Patagonia. Named after Captain Robert Fitzroy of the HMS Beagle, Fitzroy thrusts above the Argentine plains and Southern Icecap together with its companion peaks Cerro Poincenot, Aguja Rafael, and Aguja Saint Exupery.
I spent this afternoon in Fitzroy Gardens, Melbourne. I was planning for my upcoming Nature Sketching with Watercolour Pencil classes. I was deciding which trees to draw
It is such a beautiful day in Melbourne today. Fitzroy Gardens are full of little groups of people having picnics, They are all spaced well apart. There is such a lovely atmosphere, am sure the sunshine on Saturday is the reason for this. I was planning to go for a long walk but HAD to stop and capture just some of this scene, I hope that you are all having a special Saturday. Watercolour pencil. I will probably ass more detail and colour at home.
This is a shot taken at Fitzroy Island which is off the coast of Cairns. I took this shot in September 2013. I only regret 2 things about the visit to this island:
1) We took the pram and I had to carry it all the way to this location
2) I only took two film shots!
Captured with a Fuji G617 and Velvia film. My guess at the settings would be Velvia 50, f32, 1/2sec and circular polariser
From the 'Footprint' guide: "The soaring granite of Cerro Fitzroy (3405m) rises up from the smooth baize of the steppe, more like a ziggurat than a mountain, surrounded by a consort of jagged snow-clad spires, with a stack of spun cotton cloud hanging constantly above them. It is one of the most magnificent mountains in the world....Its Telhuelche name was El Chalten ('smoking mountain' or 'volcano')." Its modern name was given it by the nineteenth century Argentine explorer Perito Moreno, who called it after one of his heroes the captain of the Beagle (which carried Darwin on his expedition to Patagonia) who saw the mountain from afar in 1833.
We were very lucky to see the mountain against a cloudless sky, and although the time of day meant this image was taken somewhat into the sun, I think it captures some of the majesty of the range.
The falls are where the Yarrunga Creek falls into the Kangaroo Valley and flows into the Kangaroo River. A reserve around the falls was established as early as 1882. The reserve was absorbed into the larger Morton National Park in the 1960s.
Earlier this year we went to Melbourne for a few days and after having lunch with a close friend I went for a walk by myself around Fitzroy, a suburb I lived in many, many years ago.
I lived in a share house for 1 or 2 years on Napier Street (can't actually recall the exact amount of time if you can believe that), but it was without doubt the best shared house I lived in. Great people, some of whom are still good friends all these years later, and a lot of fun. A good place to spend one's late teens.
Back then this was our local milk bar, so it was strange to see it in this condition, with music blasting from the upstairs rooms. Strange, but not sad. In a way it would have been a surprise to see it still in action with the amount of shops, cafes, convenience stores, etc just nearby on Brunswick and Smith Street. It was nice to stop by and pay a little bit of memory homage.