Home town pix

I thought it would be a really cool idea (lol) if we all posted pix of where we live cuz there are some awesome places out there, here's my first ones,
the top of my road lookin down,



goin back down lookin up, nearly sunset,



and outta my bedroom window,



i gonna get some good ones together, also it might be helpful as the environmental images can give an idea as to available wildlife

excellent vawn i will also post some up this eve will be nice to have people show there towns from a round the world . actually swansea won the tidiest town in oz award a few years back.
i may be able to get tassie devil and a womabt up once i get back out on my bike so very cute and i have cheeky maggie that hangs in my garden too

well shaz i think it was a brilliant idea you have here, sorry i stole it lol

hahahaha ----- no worries
just trying to down size a few pics at the min .
love your pics ----- your village looks very nice too so whats the population / industry there ?

population 20000, main industry used to be mining and fishing now it's tourism n art n sea sport or rather surfing lol

pix of the harbour

.. very nice coastal pics you def have it going on with the camera now -sweet
do you guys see much marine life there ? you could maybe get a temperate tank !! good to see a wave, so do you have many large breaks coming through?

Here are some pix of my home town--- Swansea Tasmania---Population 450 /Industry Tourism


this is our wee jetty that is recycled from plastics

nine mile beach -- 10 mins walk from my place with freycinet national park and the hazzards in the distance !




a bennets wallaby that i often see when cycling


one of the locals kicking back after a big night on the town !

wow check out that skyline awesome

not much marine life at all, a few shore crabs n spider crabs but then you only get to see the discarded ones from the fishing, also little red anenomies but we have a lot of japanese kelp too, they say the mermaid brought it over with her lol.
I have no more room in my house lol full of large terrarium with snakes n spiders in,
so those breaks were off the break water, jus round the corner is a massive beach north facing n we usually get 6-8ft in the winter
info on the town, http://www.stives-cornwall.co.uk/

yes i have heard about that sea weed !! we are having a huge prob here in tassie at the moment with a star fish called the
(northern pacific sea star) NASTY!! which they say has arrived from the ballasts of cargo ships from japan apparently over 30 million here alone and is effecting industry /marine life/ shell fish /sponges and the like .

lol thank goodness my bedroom is the biggest room in the house! but that is also where i keep most of my 'pets'
the sea is such a fragile environment though eh?
unfortunately wen the surfers get into town, they are a complete bunch of yobs n vandals lol
lookin forward to seein loadsa lovely pix

yes the sea is very fragile, and we wont have an ocean to appeciate soon
have you heard about the great pacific garbage patch "trash vortex"which stretches from hawaii near to japan and appears to be getting larger -- very alarming !!--- http://www.theindependentinvironment.com

This is a good idea Vawn and if we could keep the replies down it would work very well.

Your pics are nothing short of wonderful and if each and every one got on board with this thread it could be very special and a thread that many would find very interesting.

This is part of something I have been pushing for on face book and all new registrations to the forum for ages and virtually no one has bothered to do it, so thank you from all that will look at this thread and it will have a sticky on it so can all ad to this and try to keep the replies to a minimum to ensure the smooth flowing of the thread.
Sites like photo bucket are free and any pics can be placed there or where ever and the image code copied into the thread so all can see your lovely pics.
From the first suggestion of a xmas pics comp from way back, Good work as always Vawn.

The redlands is our home and is a very lovely and expanding spot and its name is from the red soil here that made so many farms do so well until developement came along,now there are very few left.

This is whats called a Queenslander home,its at victoria point in the redlands shire.



This one is an older style home at Wynum/Manly in the redlands of course.



A couple of pics of Stradbroke island in the Redlands.




This area is called wellington point.Sundays here you can not move it is so popular.






The roads in the redlands are quite roomy and always lots fo trees.



Lots of large parks around here.



This is millionaires row,they have one of the only spots where the sun sets over the ocean here.



The nania movie set at cleveland point last year.



This spot is where we go for our afternoon fish and chips from time to time at cleveland point to watch the sunset.
Some days here there are heaps of tripods and all kinds of gear to capture the sunset by a lot of different people.
Those are our two dogs and the sun sets right over our house on the other side of the bay area.



These pics are all at or very near our place.









We live right near a bushland heritage area and there is a creek out front that has ducks of all types and large and small fish,platypus,turtles and heaps of snakes and lizards.

wow the redlands look awesome, devon the next county to me is a farmin county and is red, well now i gotta take a pic of my house! lol
or a buddy down in the harbour?... so the rock formation is 10 mins up the road by foot from my house n the harbour is 10 mins down the road



i get the feeling i might have posted him here before

I don't think it has put on here any where.
good pic though.

redlands looks like a nice area------- excellent pics and to see so much wildlife close to a city is very cool .

vawn wrote:wow the redlands look awesome, devon the next county to me is a farmin county and is red, well now i gotta take a pic of my house! lol
or a buddy down in the harbour?... so the rock formation is 10 mins up the road by foot from my house n the harbour is 10 mins down the road



i get the feeling i might have posted him here before

omg ---he is so very sweet

our roads are tiny

my house in the middle of my street

one of many lol

then the walk into town on the other side of the road (i live near the top by the hill in the first pix 15 downhill walk to the sea or you can take the coast path)







popular with the tourists







the tate gallery right on the main surf beach

cute streets vawn----- very similar to some in the villages here in tassie.. That headland pic 4th down is awesome looks like maybe a good dive off there and the beach/ looks lovely and white . very nice

oooh that one shaz, dead mans drop it is dry down there just jagged rocks, there have been alot of campaigns to stop what we call tombstoning ie the kids jump off n die but if you go out in a bout to dive you can see alot of shipwrecks (as in these waters are trecherous!)