two little ducks

A pair of pacific blacks, out for a lazy paddle along the North Esk. They really didn't seem in a hurry - usually when I'm trying to take a photo like this, they inevitably move on before I've taken my shot.

Thanks guys.

The Gorge

Barely a 10 minute walk from the city centre is the entrance to the Cataract Gorge. Almost declared a national park many years ago, it's the natural centrepiece of town. As well as this, it's a popular recreation area, and I have been known to spend some time walking there myself...

Royal Park

A bench, a tree, and a flood retention wall pretending to be bleachers.

Royal Park  is a remnant of the early attempts to dredge the Tamar basin - basically, the whole thing is an accumulation of dumped river silt. The original shoreline (or what passed for it, given it was probably semi-tidal wetlands) was about another 50 metres further on from the concrete wall in background.