General Catchup 4 Lost and Found =camera saga

There were a number of near misses and a couple of misplacements that put a bit of a dark cloud over the otherwise fine holiday.

The first of these happened a few days into my trip down to Melbourne. I flew down there on Tuesday 7th October and stayed there until Saturday 11th October. Part of the reason for going down there was to do a day tour of the Great Ocean Road, which winds its way down the bottom of Australia and ends up in Adelaide, if you are willing to drive that far.

Anyway the tour had somehow been booked for the wrong day, so to kill time I decided to go on a train journey, just to see a bit of the outer regions of Melbourne. I purchased a Zone one and Two ticket and ended up taking the Hurstbridge train to a place called Diamond Creek.

Had lunch in Diamond Creek and went for a walk around Nillumbik Park. Took a few photos of the birds along and a family ducks (bathing in the Park’s pond) along the way. After a brief look around the local shopping center I caught the train back to Flinders Street Station.

On my way back to the Enterprise Hotel, where I was staying I suddenly realized that I no longer had my camera. I rang the railway station from my room but the lost and found had closed for the night. I never saw it again. Somewhere someone has claimed a free digital camera. May your fowls turn into emu’s and kick your fowl-house down!

Anyway I ended up purchasing a new Fujifilm 9 mega-pixal digital camera which proved to be better than the original 6 mega-pixal model. But I ended up leaving that behind when I visited my relations in South Windsor (See Visiting the Blackwell Blacksmith).