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Published: January 23rd 2007
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Geelong
Unfortunately the day was extremely hazy due to the forest fires so can't see much of this shot over the bay. This marked my second trip outside of Melbourne since I arrived here in Nov. last year. I thought it was just a small town just outside of Melbourne but Geelong is Victoria's second largest city with 200000 people. Since I've seen almost everything there is inside the Melbourne city proper, the idea was to do day trips to the surrounding areas to get a better feel of the state of Victoria. The train is pretty cheap too being only $15 for a round trip out to Geelong and back which is roughly an hour from the city.
I arrived in Geelong around 10:30 and just started wandering aimlessly around the town. As luck would have it I stumbled across the main tourist office in town and was able to get a city map and found out about some of the walking trails that take you around town and past all the main areas. I was meeting up with Seonna for lunch so just spent some time wandering the waterfront until she came down from work. Seonna was one of the Aussies I met while touring through Europe a couple years ago so it was nice to catch up after so
Geelong
I spent the day walking all over town and this shot is from the opposite side of the bay from the first shot. long. Unfortunately, the luch hour was over all to soon and she had to be getting back to work. I decided to tackle the longest walking tour which went by everything worth seeing as far as arts and culture in Geelong was concerned.
The estimated walking time was around 3.5 hours but that's for the average person and I am anything but average! 😊 I spent about 3 hours doing the walk but I went into a lot of the buildings and added in a couple other "walks" too. All along the water are bollards, which are short vertical post, that have been carved and painted to represent various aspects from Geelongs history. Everything from prominent figures of the day to regular people doing everyday activities. I will let the pictures I took of the buildings and sites around Geelong speak for themselves since there really isn't much else to add to what I put in the captions.
One interesting tidbit that I heard about Geelong is that is was originally going to be Victoria's capital but they decided that whatever city would be the capital would need to have a suitable port and the bay around geelong
City Hall
Yet another building in Victoria designed by Joseph Reed in 1855, though the city hall wasn't fully completed until 1917. Oldest town hall in Victoria. wasn't deep enough to allow that. Since then though, the bay has been deepend so it can handle all types of ships.
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