If anyone is authorized to comment about Melb. it's me! I was born there, lived there for 23 years, saw the light and left as fast as I could. So all you Melbournians can say what you like. It's just water off a ducks back.
One of the most stupid and ugly sights I saw was the steel "wall" that forms a sound deflector (?) on the way to Werribie. The wall was about 8 feet high, about 800 meters long and unpainted. It was a wall of heavily rusted steel sheeting that looked like it came from a rubish dump. The poor people who live there will know exactly the "wall" I'm describing. I was told it was "artistic!". Yeah, right!.
I was amazed at how small and how close the houses were. Even worse, I couldn't see where the kids could play. Everything was very expensive and I still couldnt find shoes that fitted or a Parker fountain pen the same as Kody had chewed.
In comparison, I came home, put Kody in the car and drove up Farnbourough Beach from Bangalee then four klms past Rydges. The beach was glorious, the sand was hard and four hundred meters wide. The sea breeze was blowing at 15 knts at nintey degs to the shore. Just perfect for a run up the beach with the car or a S/Y. With twenty six acres of forrest under my feet at home, no water restrictions and beaches that are perfect, why would I ever want to live again in Melb?
Joe and Kody
They look great, I hope you don't mind if I copy that idea!! How do they go getting spayed with sand, do they scratch much?
