Melbourne Trip: Part 7 Lights

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Day 2, Evening

Camera went flat while we were waiting for train back to city so no photos. Not that much happened, because we were all tired and sore.

Back in the city, I sent sister off in the general direction of burger/takeaway places and went to find the T2 shop. Their website said Bourke St and Little Collins St, which was a bit confusing, but turned out to be a shopping centre that had it's main entrance on Bourke St but the shop I wanted was on Little Collins. Being just a block and a half up from the hotel, this would have been good if I hadn't walked all the way down to find it and then had to back track up three blocks to find something to eat. Some spicy Thai stuff that was nice but there was no way I could eat it all.

Back at the hotel, sister and kids had obviously found the burger place and returned safely. Which was good. So we settled in for the night (except where I ducked down in fluffy socks and track pants to post postcard in hotel foyer, didn't think I made the pickup time but 3 days later it was delivered to the address in a village in the north of England. 3 days?) and that should have been it.

But we wanted to head down to the river to catch the light show. Fortunately we had our tram tickets because we didn't need to walk any further (hurt).


Haven't we been here before?



Southbank, outside the casino. The entrance to the casino isn't as easy to find as you'd think. There is an obvious main entrance, but doesn't look like a casino.


Just right of centre is a big, dark tower (actually there's a row of them, with three visible here). They're the things that hold for the flames for the light show.


So we head back across the river to wait for it. City on left, casino complex on right.


Not a good photo, but you can see how the yellow station dominates the view, with the tower at one end and the dome at the other.


So it starts with a small flame, that gets bigger over time.








Trains are fun to take photos of.

We walk back to hotel, because there don't seem to be any trams running, at least along here. We comment on how busy Flinders St is at night, and how we both see this area, especially this part under the tracks, as being a run down, neglected area of city, but with the riverside developments it now seems more upmarket. Funny how we both had the same associations without every talking about them.




And one last street view before we head up for the night.