Oceania 2024
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Introduction.
May
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June
01,
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Home.
2024-06-01
Busy day, although not many photos. Breakfast at the fancy
Higher Ground, a walking
tour, Melbourne
Museum, dinner at a nice café in a laneway, and Mörk Chocolate.
Melbourne Museum was good, diverse exhibits on Melbourne history, aboriginal
culture and history, natural history (including quite a bit more in geologic
periods than just dinosaurs), and more.
Melbourne traffic signals seem ill-timed for pedestrians.
The second picture below shows a traffic oddity: a hook turn. Australian
traffic drives on the left. A driver coming toward the camera and wanting to
make a right turn pulls to the left their traffic stream and waits in that
right-turn box. When the traffic signal turns green for the cross street,
then they complete the right turn and go.
It was not at every intersection in Melbourne, and it may have something to do
with the trams, but it looks inefficient to me. Since vehicles have to wait,
only a small number of them can turn each traffic cycle. You cannot have a
continuous stream during a green light.
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| Higher Ground. |
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| Hook turn. |
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| Hosier Lane. |
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| Hosier Lane. |
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| A laneway. |
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| A laneway. |
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| State Library Victoria. |
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| Park at Old Melbourne Gaol. |
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| Park at Old Melbourne Gaol. |
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| La Trobe Street. |
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| Melbourne Museum. |
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| Near Melbourne Museum. |
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| Mörk Chocolate. |
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Eric Postpischil.
