Sunday Selections # 140

Welcome back to Sunday Selections!

This once-a- week-meme was originally begun by Kim of Frog Ponds Rock, as a way to showcase some of the many photos we all take, but don't get around to showing on our blogs.

Kim spends more time writing at The Shake these days.

The rules are very simple:-

1. post photos of your choice, old or new, under the Sunday Selections title

2. link back to me, River, somewhere in your post

3. leave me a comment so that I know you've joined in and can come over and see what you've posted.

4. hop on over to The Elephant’s Child to see more of her wonderful photos.

Kath and Andrew often join in as well, although Kath has been missing in action for quite some time.

There are several other participants now though:I'll add names as I find them.

I usually go with a theme for my Sunday Selections and this week I'm down at the riverbank.

I'd gone to the city and wandered around taking photos, then headed down to the riverbank for hot chips and a bottle of water. I'd carried water with me, but had already drank it all. 

Adelaide's River Torrens. Unseen off to the left is the Convention Centre which is currently undergoing some expansion reconstruction, unseen off to the right is the new footbridge construction works.

I sat outside the cafe at a bench facing the river, under the big shady umbrellas, eating hot chips and watching both Popeyes cruising the river. Here one is coming in to the landing while the other is heading out.

the day was very warm and the riverbank was full of people walking, picnicking, and riding the paddleboats. I hadn't seen paddleboats on the river in years.

After I'd eaten, I walked on to the bridge and took "bird's eye view" photos.

Here are Popeye 1 and Popeye 2 again, one coming, one going.

paddleboat steering out of Popeye's path

then I followed the path down to where it goes under the bridge and stood by the edge of the water for this shot. The paddleboats go from the landing to the bridge and then turn back.

this is the view down the river from the bridge towards the zoo. 

From here, I continued on to North Adelaide and kept the camera busy, but those photos are for another day.