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.
1930 was the Centenary of the first European exploration and charting of the Murry River from it's source in the Australia alps in New South Wales to its mouth in South Australia. This Exploration also lead to the Colony of South Australia being established. I have driven my car along side lots of the Murray river but I suppose that does not make me much of an explorer. So no stamp for me but I could get a travelfeed and worldmapin badge.
In 1931 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith got his own stamp for a record breaking trans pacific flight. He was born in Queensland and there is a Memorial, housing the plane "Southern Cross", at Brisbane's International Airport. There was actually 3 stamps in this issue, I am missing the more valuable 6d purple one.
