Suburb #100 Calwell

I was going to do a special suburb to mark reaching no. 100 but I ended up doing Calwell instead :p

Sorry Calwellians....only kidding....I actually had an unexpectedly lovely walk here which is exactly what this project was all about - so it ended up being quite a fitting choice for suburb no. 100.

This suburb is named after Arthur Augustus Calwell, Australia's immigration minister from 1945 to 1949, who led the ALP during the 60s. There was an attempt on his life in 1966, but this failed - with Calwell only the second victim of an attempted political assassination in Australia. He once famously stated that "It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies". Not sure how that fits with our current reality of alternative facts...

The streets here are named after Victorian politicians.

 As has been customary on this journey, I started my adventures at the local shops...which actually still exist and are in fact fairly sizeable in this suburb - go Calwell! :)

 

In the company of some special guest stars who added an additional level of difficulty to trying to take photos while walking...

 

it was then off to explore the local parkland...really quite pretty with autumn colour starting to emerge...

I have it on good authority that young locals got up to no good down here....

No doubt at the very least a good hide out spot from the school across the road... 

 

Or possibly from the church...

As we continued our loop around back to the shops, the bush capital's 100th suburb certainly came to the party with the usual array of birds and gorgeous natural beauty....

 

As well as some of those very Canberran things that I have become so fond of :)

And there were still some of those fabulous Canberra views to come from the highest points in the suburb... where there are also some very large houses (and I can just never go past the questionable use of a palm tree...)

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