Day 4 - Bairnsdale
Bruce & Joan Downes showed us around Bairnsdale, especially the rural areas near there where Joan and her family grew up
November 24, 2004

01-Garden On Wednesday, November 24, 2005, Bruce & Joan took us on a tour of the rural area around Bairnsdale where Joan grew up ... this is a garden at the farm of one of Joan's brothers 02-Garden Australian garden 03-Hills Hills of rural Bairnsdale 04-Cattle Cattle 05-EucalyptusLeaves Eucalyptus leaves 06-Garden The day before we were here, a brown snake had been caught in a trap just outside the garden ... hooray for Australia's ultra-deadly snakes 07-OrangeFlower Orange flower 08-WoodenFence A wooden fence by the rolling grasslands outside Bairnsdale where Joan grew up 09-WoodFence Wooden fence 10-Landscape Rural Australian landscape 11-Stump Lonely stump 12-GlenLoch The area around Glen Loch, Joan's childhood home 13-Road Country road 14-GlenLoch Glen Loch 15-Fences Fences 16-Paddock Paddock 17-SatinBowerBirdNest The nest of a satin bower bird ... these small birds collect anything and everything blue that they find (blue string, blue plastic bottle caps, blue wrappers, etc) and bring them back to decorate their nests ... odd but cool 18-RustyGate A rusty gate at Glen Loch 19-OrangeTree They even have an orange tree! 20-Wool Inside the barn where they shear all the sheep of their wool 21-RoundaboutSign Roundabout sign