Sunday Stamps

The Australian Zoological series of stamps issued in the 1930s, I see half of these animals in my local area.

We see emus on road trips out of town, usually off in the distance in the bush. I have only ever seen one up close in an enclosure, they big, powerful and a little scary with that massive beak and strong legs.

We used to see Lyrebirds in the Dandenong mountains when I was growing up in Victoria. They can mimic up to 20 different bird calls and the male have a massive coloured tail that spreads like a fan.

The Platypus is very rare and unique very hard to spot as they like hiding in quite creeks and rivers.

We see and hear Kookaburras daily. here is another one from this morning on my run.

Merino sheep were introduced to Australia but there are plenty of them here now.

Probably Australia's favourite animal, getting hard to see near us with all the urban sprawl but there still around.

We see lots of our wallaby friends too

Stamp Collecting is a bit of an old fashioned hobby. I suppose I am not really into it an more but I always have a bit of a look if we get any snail mail that might have something interesting stuck to it.

Australia post still issue some good commemorative stamps but the internet and postage stickers seems to have pretty much killed the once cheap and simple hobby. It brings back a lot of good memories for me as a young boy as my dad used to be able to get lot of them from the University office staff where he was a maintenance electrician.

We would soak them off the paper, sort them out, swap and trade with other friends. I sold the bulk of what we gathered over the years when it went out of fashion and my son was more interested in video games and sport.

With the little bit of money from the bulk stamp sale on ebay. I put one good quality album together, one of each stamp we had issued in Australia with a couple of photos of my dad in the front.

I enjoy reminiscing and having a look through on a rainy day every now and again.