New York

Photos from week one

 Brooklyn Bridge from Manhattan Bridge

Our apartment building

Street sculpture near our apartment

Southern area of Central Park

Central Park

Laurie in Central Park

The Reservoir at Central Park

Looking south to the downtown skyline over the Reservoir

The Frick Collection in Henry Clay Frick's 5th Avenue Mansion

Gate at the Frick Collection 

Grand Central Station

Grand Central Station facade reflected in skyscraper

Facade Detail

The Philip Johnson Glass House

The Brick House, containing guest room, main bathroom and services 

The Sculpture Gallery

'Da Monsta' at the entrance to the Glass House compound

Interior of Da Monsta

Greenwich Village

Brett and Laurie feeling that they belong right here

 The Highline Park

Moveable couches mounted on old rail tracks in Highline Park

The extension of Highline Park that opened the day we walked along it

The Highline Park extension before it gets a major makeover

Empire State Building

 Miss Liberty and Laurie

 The Guggenheim Museum Rotunda

Guggenheim Cafe 

Exterior of the Guggenheim on 5th Avenue

 Andy Goldsworthy 'Wall' installation in Storm King Art Centre

Looking at a picket fence made of mirrored glass at Storm King

Storm King

COMING HOME

Last week I had meant to include these sculptural installations from the Perth Sculpture by the Sea at Cottesloe. Which, as you can see, we visited at days end.

View of Perth from Kings Park, Botanical Gardens area.

Looking down stream in the direction of Fremantle.

On the first day of our return journey we travelled to the goldfields of Western Australia. Below is a picture of the pipeline of the Goldfields Water Supply Scheme that brings water 530 kilometres from the Mundaring Weir just east of Perth to Kalgoolie and Coolgardie, completed in 1903. 

The pipeline ran alongside the road for most of the distance.

Unfortunately the Coogardie museum closed for the day just as we arrived. However, we admired the former Mining Registrar’s Office in which it is housed.

The main street of Coolgardie

Here is a photo of the original pit in Coolgardie and below a rock with quartz veins.

I assume that gold was found in the quartz seams.

Some of the eucalyptus trees in the area between Coolgardie and Norseman had the most beautiful glossy copper coloured bark.

                                

We drove on to Norseman where we stayed the night in the Railway Hotel which has an amazing Art Deco extension showing its age a little, but a wonderful atmosphere.

                                      

                                  

The Anglican Church in Norseman.

Typical bushland around Norseman.

On our second night after travelling 1499 kilometres in two long days of driving we had crossed the state of Western Australia from Perth in an almost straight line and had reached its eastern border with South Australia. Yes it is a very big state (3.6 times the size of Texas). Here we had our first view of the sea from the top of the Eucla pass. Late afternoon sun over the sea.

       

This next photo is taken at the Nullarbor Roadhouse 198 kilometres east of Ecula.

The view to the south.

A close-up of the flowers in the foreground of the photo above.

Our next night was spent at Ceduna, in South Australia. This view is from the jetty in the morning.

Pelicans seen from the jetty.

Roadside mallee scrub between Kyancutta and Port Augusta.

 Roadside flowers.

A freight train we passed between Port Augusta and Port Wakefield made us think of Geoffrey Smart's painting in the Performing Arts Complex in Melbourne. In the background Mount Remarkable National Park.

At Port Wakefield we came across this magnificent 147 year old Peppercorn Tree.

Our last night before coming home was spent in Mount Gambier, famous for its Blue Lake in the crater of an extinct volcano. The colour of the lake changes to blue from around November to the end of March, we were fortunate in our timing.

                 

      

Greetings from Laurence and Christopher now returned to Torquay.

29th March 2014