Fort Queenscliff, Bendigo bollards, Queen Mary II
A quickie tonight as I'm tired and we have a early start tomorrow - heading out toward Adelaide First, I went and did the tour of Fort Lonsdale, built from 1860 to protect the second richest port in the world from the marauding Russians, who had the richest gold port, St Petersburgh and may well have fancied our gold as well. Anyhow it got built complete with umpteen canon, a 20ft wide and deep ditch all around it and communications with Fort Nepean on the other headland guarding the entrance to Port Philip Bay. Needless to say, like most of these things in Australia, it never saw active service and never fired a round in anger and was turned into a school for budding Generals in 1945. Since then the Army have kept it and used it for various bookkeeping jobs but don't really want to spend anything on its upkeep. Some snaps: Fort Queenscliff, Victoria Fort Queenscliff, Victoria Fort Queenscliff, Victoria Fort Queenscliff, Victoria After 1hour 45 m...