On my way home meme take 2

After get­ting tagged again by Ruth and speak­ing to Miles who was vis­it­ing the State Lib­rary to work on his spe­cial pro­ject. I decided to have a second go at the On my way home meme. This time a more typ­ical trip home, by train and bike, last Friday.

Leav­ing the lib­rary on a Fri­day even­ing, there are always a few people using the free wifi out­side the build­ing, as the lib­rary closes at 5:30pm on Friday.

I walked through the main part of the sta­tion on Fri­day, I need to go past all the other plat­forms to get to my train.

While wait­ing for my train, a train on north­ern line arrived and the crowd des­cen­ded on it. The train on the north­ern line takes a lot more pas­sen­gers than the south­ern line at the moment.

I got stopped by a secur­ity guard at this stage. ask­ing why I was tak­ing pho­to­graphs. He was not con­cerned about secur­ity issues, but the pri­vacy of the pas­sen­gers. I explained I wanted a photo of how crowded the north­ern line was and that my cam­era was not likely to take pho­tos that could clearly identify people. I demon­strated that by show­ing him, the pho­tos I had taken.

By com­par­ison, my car­riage was almost empty. I was going to demon­strate that with a pho­to­graph with a beau­ti­ful sun­set over the Swan River, but all I got was the reflec­tion off the win­dow. So here is pho­to­graph taken a stop earlier. Pho­tos taken, laptop on and head­phones on.

Off the train and time to retrieve my bike from the locker. The flash on the Dopod 838Pro is not that effect­ive, so here is a photo taken earlier in the day.

The first part of the ride home is 800m decline down a wide well light road. This photo does not show this inter­est­ing obstacles I faced that night, which include two large piles of organic fer­til­iser on the road’s edge. Each pile was roughly 2m high and 4m in dia­meter and had a very strong odour. The final obstacle was a burst retic­u­la­tion pipe, shoot­ing water 4m into the air and cov­er­ing most the road. So I made an rad­ical detour the wrong way around a roundabout.

The next 600m is a long a crushed lime­stone track through bush­land, that little LED light, gives off enough light to nav­ig­ate the track at 20kmh, any faster and it gets very interesting.

The next part of the jour­ney, is to hop a couple of curbs to cross this dual car­riage­way, 100m along a cycle path, 300m uphill along an unlit road, hop a couple more curbs then I am home.

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