Yes, I’m spending another week at Oaklands counting birds and I must admit, I’m still very impressed with the turbines. They are enormous and I love it when the sun is rising behind these monsters.

It makes me wonder, for those of us born pre 1990, wind farms are still a novelty and we look in wonder at the spectacle of them.  But how will people view them in 20 – 50 years from now?   Will wind farms still be around then?

My lucky photograph taken this morning

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I do love digital cameras.

My father is from a very small town in north central Victoria called Mitiamo.

His first trip to Melbourne was around 1940, after he had just enlisted in the airforce and was about to be shipped off to Darwin to help repair planes that were damaged.

One interesting comment he makes about his first trip to Melbourne was his amazement at the the number of rail lines leading into Flinders Street Station.

Below is a photograph of that area taken yesterday (16th January 2013).

The rail lines are still there, most likely with a few additions but there would no doubt be more additions to the skyline. The Tennis Centre was not there and the MCG was 16 years away from the 1956 Olympics and glass hotels and apartments would be considered impossible to make. The Citilink tollway, (right) running across the rail lines would have been considered science fiction.

I live south of Melbourne on the Mornington Peninsula and whilst I seldom venture into Melbourne, when I do, even I am reminded of it’s changes over time.

From time to time I drive past Martha Cove Marina at Safety Beach.

It wasn’t all that long ago a bunch of environmentalists were complaining how Martha Cove Marina would ruin this region of the Mornington Peninsula. They complained about the loss of the little creek that ran through this floodplain and how it would be better off planted out with swamp scrub. Then it could have returned to it’s former glory as a productive estuary.

Now,  it’s a dusty failure.