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[unteriors]

Reed Street, Orbost, Victoria.

[dontwanderoff]

talking to my dad about the reality of like, moving out and specifically ever buying a house as a single person on a teacher’s salary and he was like ‘well [coworker]’s stepdaughter moved out to orbost and got a place for 180,000.’

[classicjalopy]

The Long Way Euround – Day 5: Gippsland and Monaro Drive

ay five of the Long Way Euround takes us back towards Sydney via Gippsland and the Monaro region of southern NSW.   After an action packed day on Day 4, today was a little more relaxed, but we still had a museum to visit and over 600km of driving to do. As this is the penultimate day of the trip, we are on our way back to Sydney. We started early in eastern Melbourne with some car repairs on the 500SL.   Even after tightening the hoses yesterday, it was still leaking power steering fluid.  We finally found out why.   The second generation cars had an additional spoiler at the front.   This had been attached with screws.  One of the screws was touching the cooler line for the power steering.  Every time the spoiler flexed over a bump, the screw would rub against the line.  After years of doing that, it had finally worn a hole.   The temporary solution was to cut a section of hose and cable tie it to the line to cover the 'wound'.   This stanched the bleeding at least until the end of the trip.

The 380SEC continued to require a bypass for the fuel pump relay, but the owner of that car is getting his process down to get it restarted when needed.  It still does not like to idle for long periods of time, but runs very well when on the open road.   The bypass must have a lot of current going through it, as the connections are starting to melt a little.   It hadn't blown the 25 amp fuse, but that has started to melt too.   This seems more current than I would expect a Bosch fuel pump to draw and may be part of the issue. My car started out ok, but the wheel bearing noise became quite bad as we drove out of Melbourne.   So bad, that I phoned a friend in the MBCV to find contacts for mechanics in the Mornington Peninsula area.   At this point I was convinced I would have to leave the car in Melbourne. However, being a Sydney car, the threat of staying in Melbourne for a few more weeks was enough to get the wheel bearing to quieten down, and so since It was behaving itself, we continued.  It seems to very much dislike city driving with turns and stop/start, but tolerate quite well cruising at 90km/h. After we left Melbourne, we hugged the coast as we drove through Gippsland.  It was quite a windy and rainy day today, so there was quite a swell out on the ocean as we drove past.   The country was lush and green and there was a lot of cattle farming. Our first stop was Inverloch where we sampled another local bakery called Slice of Heaven.   The pies were very good, and the Vanilla slice was the best I've sampled on the trip.   It was also Inverloch were I made the decision to keep going with the 450SLC. Even in the rain the roads were quite good and we cruised along at a fairly leisurely pace.   Since I was trying to be gentle on my car, I returned the best fuel economy figures since I purchased it, all those years ago - 13.1 liters per 100kms. Our next stop was Maffra, where we visited the Gippsland Vehicle Collection.   This is a nice museum with a rotating collection.   As of October 2024, they have 20th century sports cars on display.  I've covered the museum separately.

After the museum, we had lunch at the Maffra bakery.  We first looked at a fish and chip shop that was heavily advertised, but didn't take our fancy.   The pies were excellent at the bakery, and the Vanilla slice was good too. We kept going, as I was keen not to do the Monaro highway at night in the rain. After Maffra, we continued to Orbost via Lakes Entrance.   Going through Orbost brought back memories of limping the green 280CE into town on the first of these trips a couple of years ago.   We continued to cruise along, the scenery quite good and the roads good to drive on in this weather. After Orbost farmland started to give way to the National Park.   The road was quite wet so we had to slow down.    We were all getting quite tired by now, from our busy day yesterday.  A few of us got some snacks to re-energize, and there were a couple of power naps by the side of the road.   The countryside became more hilly, and densely forested with very large trees.  The road was windy, and It would be far more fun to drive on had the weather been good.   This is the second time I've driven this route in bad weather.   At least I had light this time. We turned off at the Monaro highway, which climbs fairly steeply through dense forest.   Even in the wet it was a good road to drive on, and in the dry it would be a great driving road.   As we got closer to our destination in Bombala, the forest suddenly gave way open country and sheep farms.    We finally cruised into Bombala at around 6:15PM, right on time.   Originally, we had planned to fuel up ready for the morning, but the main service station was closed, and the other one only carried diesel. We checked into the local pub where we are staying and went for dinner, which was quite good.   Tomorrow is the final day of our trip.

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[dancingmeaves]

Orbost, Victoria, Australia. June 2024

[carbondated]

❛ how is it you always know what i need, huh? ❜

Orbost - 1939. Snowy River Country in the middle of a summer heatwave was nothing like it's namesake. Seated on a flat boulder by the river's edge, a quaint little picnic blanket underneath the pair of them, River was completely at peace with the world. For a moment, she said nothing, eyes closed, lips curling into a smile as she sunned herself on the dappled patches of light peeking through the treetops high above. She never expected to find the simple life quite so appealing, away from the city, Melbourne's social scene and it's criminal underbelly that she and Phryne were always getting caught up in ... it seemed so far away now. A curious thought crossed her mind, one she had from time to time, but never really felt as wholeheartedly as she did now; the thought she could have an ordinary life and still find it fulfilling. They could move here. Buy a patch of land besides the river, where the ferns hungrily stretched their tendrils to drink from the waters edge and the rain fell hot on a rusted tin roof. Mac could open a practice. She could dabble in an art gallery or join the historic society, something to keep her occupied during the day. In the evening's they'd sit outside under the stars and find it strange that she had ever traversed the space between those little spots of light, when she could have been here with Mac that entire time instead. They could go on living like that forever ... Well, one of them could.

River's eyes flickered open, the moment lost, dismissed as no more than a silly notion. She leaned over and placed a kiss to Mac's cheek. . ❝ Darling, when don't I? ❞ An escape to the countryside. Yes. what a marvellous idea. Too good to make a lifetime of it.

meme I can't find // not accepting.

[pdubyah]

Herevana -Sailors Grave - Sou' East Draught

Herevana -Sailors Grave - Sou' East Draught A lovely Australian Draught and some lovely Vinyl Music pdubyah.com/2023/08/10/herevana-sailors-grave-sou-east-draught/

Here we have the BeerJerkNZ beer of the week, a beer club, like a book club but for beer, always a new beer every weeks, never the same beer twice, Sailors Grave Sou’ East Draught. Sailors Grave Brewing make the Sailors Grave Sou’ East Draught which is brewed in  Orbost, Victoria,🇦🇺 Australia in, as close as I can tell, a Pale Lager – American (They’ll say Australian Draught) of 4.8% ABV. It I…

[piperwrightportfolio]

Assignment #1 ( Covering a public speech)

Patricia Karvelas calls out lack of diversity in Journalism industry. 

First Nations people experience pressure from society to “agree” on everything while only having stories of “conflict” and “doom” reported about them said Journalist Patrcia Karvelas. 

 According to Karvelas “social unrest thrives where we lose the ability to understand each other, "at the RMIT capitol theater during her professorial lecture. 

Ms. Karvelas lecture covered “power, diversity and gatekeepers,” and why it needed to be challenged the lecture took place March 9th. 

The lecture examined the lack of “diversity” within journalism and how “successful” stories about diverse communities were not reported on but instead “conflict” and “gloom” were. 

Ms. Karvelas drew on her own experiences in newsrooms being a queer “Greek woman,”.  

Breeanna Maynard a queer GurnaiKurnai person who is a small business owner in East Gippsland believes “conflict” is needed.  

“Conflict is an important part of change and differing opinions in the first nations community should be valid,” said Breeanna Maynard. 

“White people shouldn’t have opinions on matters affecting the aboriginal community because it ends up invalidating the whole community, "Maynard said.  

Ms. Karvelas used her previous experience as an “indigenous affair reporter,” to add perspective to issues the first nations community are experiencing in the media. 

“No one ever expects all white people to agree on things,” but as soon as first nations people disagree “lets smash everything they have to say,” Ms. Karvelas said.  

Journalist report stories about conflict within the first nations community to “Elevate conflict for conflicts sake,” even though “it’s democracy,” Ms. Karvelas said.  

“Voices and experiences should be first nations when it’s relevant to our stories,” and “not anyone else,” said Maynard.  

“Our good stories are gatekept because they don’t follow the stereotype and that makes it less interesting too white people,” said Maynard. 

Contact for Breeanna Maynard: maynardbreeanna@gmail.com 

Hard news story.

My first hard news story had many ups and downs. 

Firstly, I recognize that I was able to obtain a source easily. I recognize that they were not the most newsworthy source out of the others I contacted, but I was able to get a young queer First Nations voice as my source. Which was what I aimed for and thought would suit the speech. sources I contacted sources such as elders from Gurnai country they were probably reluctant to speak. One Aunty declined, and others never replied to my emails. 

I conducted a phone interview since my source was four hours away in Orbost East Gippsland, and neither of us could make a trip that suited us both. A challenge I found with phone interviews is how awkward they can be. I couldn’t follow techniques to put my interviewee at ease, such as eye contact and smiling. To combat this, I made myself sound enthusiastic and told a few jokes to appear more casual. I also had a list of questions, but I tried to make it a conversation and steer it organically into the direction of what I wanted to ask. 

A big challenge I encountered was how journalism writing is different from essay writing in secondary school. As I graduated in 2022, essay-style writing was engrained in me. It took me a while to start using simpler words, such as "said" instead of "shrieked” I second guessed myself a lot throughout that process. Another struggle was keeping each sentence under 25 words and getting to the point each time, I had to be sure each word I wrote was needed and wasn’t taking up space. 

To uphold journalism's democratic function, I   

I did no harm to my source Breeanna Maynard. I wrote down their quotes accurately and did not take them out of context and checked while writing my hard news story that I represented what they said correctly.  

I told Maynard that they had the freedom to say anything they wanted in response to my questions and that I am unbiased throughout my writing of my hard news story.  

Throughout my hard news story, I kept it balanced with the number of quotes I used for Maynard and Karvelas. I did not give one source more part of the story than the other. 

I kept both Maynard and Karvelas’s quotes accurate. I did not change them, nor did I change the context.  

I attempted to be fair in my hard news story as I wanted to feature a voice who has experienced issues brought up by Karvelas. I chose Maynard as my source because they are first nations and experience issues from the media portraying their community as doomed.  

A tip I learned from one of the lectures was to read out news stories while having a heavy bass song playing in the background. I believe it has helped and I’ll be reading out my news stories to Daft Punk from now on. 

[eventsaus]

The Victorian bushfires of 13 January 1939, known as Black Friday, were the culmination of several years of drought in the state and high temperatures and strong winds. These conditions fanned several fires – some of which had been burning since early December – into a massive fire front. Fire swept over the mountain country in North-East Victoria, and along the coast in the South-West.

Smoke covered the state and approximately 75 per cent of the state affected by the fires to some extent. Despite the number of fires burning and the severe conditions, some bushmen and graziers lit additional fires in an attempt to protect themselves – only for these fires to get out of control and spread.

On 8 January, two people had died in the Toolangi State Forest. By Monday 9 January, fires were burning in Dromana, Arthurs Seat, Frankston, Dandenong Ranges, Cockatoo, Noojee, Moe, Yallourn, Bairnsdale, Harrietville, Mt Bogong, Orbost, Woodend and Mt Macedon.

By 10 January, almost all the forests in the Great Dividing Range were on fire. There was a large outbreak around the town of Erica, north-east of Moe, and at Powelltown between Yarra Junction and Noojee.

By 13 January – Black Friday – the temperature reached 44.7 degrees Celsius in Melbourne, and 47.2 degrees Celsius in Mildura with very low humidity levels. Narbethong, Noojee, Woods Point, Nayook West and Hill End were completely destroyed by the fires on this day.

On Black Friday, the fires claimed 36 lives in Victoria; the total number of deaths across January was 71. Approximately 1300 buildings were lost – more than 700 homes, 69 sawmills, many businesses, farms and other buildings.

Other fires occurred in the south-east of South Australia, southern New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Tasmania also experienced fires in January 1939.

A Royal Commission for the Black Friday bushfires played a significant role in increasing bushfire awareness and prevention throughout Australia.

(Information obtained from The Australian Institute for Disaster Resilience)

[herdustisverypretty]

In case you aren’t aware of the severity of the bushfires STILL BURNING across Australia. The photos above and below are from no earlier than December 21st 2019. At that point I stopped looking at photos. There’s too many. 

This is only going to continue to get worse. 19 people have been confirmed dead as of this morning, January 4th 2020. 28 people in the Gippsland region of Victoria are missing right now. At least 449 homes have been destroyed IN JUST THE LAST 5 DAYS ALONE. 

You can view these with more detail as well as over 300 more here

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Continued under a cut below:

^ “A small flare up on New Year’s day”

^ East Gippsland, Victoria

^ East Gippsland, Victoria at night

^ giraffes in a paddock with fires behind them

^ horses in a paddock near the Gospers Mountain fire

^ January 3rd 2020

^ dogs being evacuated from Mallacoota, Victoria via ships by our navy

^ smoke from fires in East Gippsland, Victoria

^ Gospers Mountain, NSW

^ Kangaroo Island, Victoria

^ Kings Highway in NSW

^ Australian Royal Air Force evacuating people’s bags in Victoria

^ molten metal from a burnt out car in East Gippsland, Victoria

^ Navy evacuating people from Mallacoota, Victoria

^ dogs at a relief centre in North Narooma, Victoria

^ home northwest of Sydney

^ fire overnight at Orbost, Victoria

^ smoke in Orbost town, Victoria

^ column of smoke

^ tourists at Parliament House, Canberra

^ woman at a relief centre with her budgerigar, Ned Kelly, December 31

^ Dunedin, on the east coast of New Zealand’s South Island

^ Franz Josef glacier in NZ affected by smoke and ash

Also, here’s what the Gippsland region of Victoria USUALLY looks like: 

[roadsconnoisseur]

2022 Winter Road Trip day 3: An early dinner today! Don’t want to risk the last minute dinner at the final destination. #roadtrip #orbost #eastgippsland #gourmet #eatout #victoria (at Leon Palace Orbost 03-51541366) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cgv-WsaBTqO/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[442travel-blog]

A massive shout out to 442 Travel East Gippsland who have been nominated as a finalist in the 'New Business' category in the East Gippsland Business Awards 2018 alongside The Travelling Squid and High Profile Cabinets It's been a big year of change for Susan and Jo but we have grown into our new skin pretty smoothly. This nomination is recognition of that effort and is an enormous confidence boost as we quickly approach one year in business. Thank you so much to all of our loyal travellers and industry partners. Without you guys, this nomination would never have been possible. #442travel #442travelmc #smallbusiness #orbost #orbostvictoria #eastgippsland #eastgippslandsbest #travelagent #smallbusinessowner #victoriansmallbusiness #melbournesmallbusiness #award #smallbusinessawards (at 442 Travel) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoKrCkqB58L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dflihbc7hmsp

[unteriors]

Buchan-Orbost Road, Buchan, Victoria.

[fredsplace]

Some more lovely things.. #oldmanofstorr #orbost #mealtfalls #thequiraing #glendaleskye https://www.instagram.com/p/CERwSCspe2x/?igshid=2f3ezydi13qb

[gorgeousgippsland]

Orbost February 20th 2017

Orbost February 20th 2017

A visit to Orbost is well worth the trip, especially if you already live in East Gippsland.  A little about the town, from Wikipedia: read it here I love the drive to Orbost, and the town is so quaint and very friendly.  We always stop in for coffee and a chat at Chooky’s Roost. The service is quick and friendly with a welcoming smile as you enter the shop, the coffee is excellent and the food…

[henk-heijmans]

Dog jumping in water, Varkasaig Beach, Orbost Estate, Isle of Skye, Scotland, 2011 - by Elliott Erwitt (1928), French/American

[kakaimeitahi]

DARK EMU DANCER TALKS OUT AGAINST BRUCE PASCOE’S BEER

A new lager created in collaboration with Bruce Pascoe has stirred controversy due to the inclusion of a Yuin men’s initiation Dreamtime story on the can.

Dark Emu Lager is a beer that was created in collaboration between the Sailor’s Grave Brewing Company in Orbost and Yuin, Bunurong, and Tasmanian author Bruce Pascoe.

Pascoe is the author of the book “Dark Emu” which entered the Australian literary canon in 2014 when it challenged the dominant idea of Aboriginal society being a hunter-gatherer society.

Warren Ngaarae Foster a multi-disciplinary artist danced in the production of Pascoe’s Dark Emu.

He said the Yuin story written on the can of alcohol is special and sacred to the Yuin people.

“It’s one of our lore stories that our old people tell the young men when they have gone through their initiation”.

Mr Foster said Pascoe was adopted into ceremony and lore to the Yuin nation and as an initiated man, he should be more aware of the protocols in sharing the story.