Go fly a kite, weird clouds, more signs

I flew my kite today for the first time and it was ace. Luke and I went to Sandringham Beach and after several attempts at negotiating the inconsistent breeze - ending in nosedives into the sand and the shallows - I got the kite flying up high. It looked so cool, especially against the cloudy skies. I think the beach is the right place to fly a sharkite.

The clouds were quite strange, droopy and bloblike, which is shown dramatically in this black and white shot.

The skies were threatening. I thought there there was going to be rain, if not a storm, but nothing eventuated.

 As we waited to meet friends in Sandringham, I saw these lorikeets on the powerlines.

I saw several great old signs in Sandringham and on the way there, but the car was moving and I can't make Luke stop every time I want to take a photo...dammit.

I did get shots of these in Prahran though.

This was on the side of The Big Store that I

blogged a few weeks ago.

The building faces Chapel Street but I took this

down an alley off a side street, near Blockbuster.

Here's some more kites action shots.

 Luke

Me (photos of the real me

 are still on Luke's camera)

 

A bit I added later: thanks to a learned Twitter friend, I can now tell you those droopy, blobby clouds above are called mammatus clouds, from the Latin mamma, because they look like boobs.