There it is. Arthur's Seat. We're done.


Fine, have a couple of closeups. This chair apparently dates to 1980 and has accommodated many an important backside. Such as mine.


Did the chair acommodate King George V's backside when the road opened in 1929? Apocryphally, I will contribute an affirmative. But the more important question - when the surveyors came in 1853 to put in a triangulation station, did they leave the first chair then, or was the chair only brought in with the road?


You can't actually see these views from Arthur's Seat, but the conveniently located Arthurs Seat View or any number of other lookouts along the road (Highway C789) will give you sweeping west and east views of Port Phillip Bay. Melbourne is so far across the bay that it can only be seen in the sunniest of weather, and even then only from the sun glinting off the tops of skyscrapers.


The sun had burned off enough of the morning haze when I made it back down to Franklin's Lookout to show you the deep cerulean of the sea.


So what was I doing up there for 3 hours? The head says, wouldn't you like to know.


Okay, fine, I was doing a ropes course at the Enchanted Maze. Here's part of the maze. It would have been more interesting with some giant dice.


It's not just a maze. There's also the Enchanted Adventure Garden. Here we have statues of fish and dolphins riding a curiously trimmed hedgerow into the lake (that's the garden part), a wild dragon guarding them from harm (adventure), a nice cabbage patch (more garden), and... my. Oh, my. We'll just call that more adventure.


Let's close with a less debaucherous sight. This is a crimson rosella, or what most people would call a parrot.

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