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Published: November 11th 2010
Melbourne at Night
Flinders Street Bridge and some office buildings at night Like Alice Springs (see
The Alice Springs Express Tour), sadly, time was pressed, so it was another lightening city-in-a-day tour for us.
In the morning we took the free tourist tram, which loops round the Central Business District. The only problem was this was that people used it as a free hop-on, hop-off service so it was often quite full and we couldn’t see an awful lot.
Once we had been round the loop we went to the viewing platform at the top of the Rialto Building. This building was there when I was in Melbourne last time, but, back then, there was no viewing platform.
After that we walked along Collins Street to the Fitzroy Gardens to see some of the things that were there last time I was in Melbourne (see
And The Holiday Ends). There's Captain Cook’s Cottage and there's the Fairy Tree, which our daughter had been dying to see and I was worried it wasn't there any more as it is not mentioned in any of the guidebooks. It was there and she loved it.
Something else that wasn't there last time, as far as I could remember, was the Museum of Melbourne, so we went to see what
Melbourne at Night
Yarra River and Central Business District at night that was like. As we were running out of time before it closed, they let us in for free which was an add bonus. There was a lot to see, including Australia’s first home-grown computer, complete with paper tape, which, rather worryingly, I can remember when it was used for real. I was very young I must add. Our son and daughter, of course, couldn’t understand how things could have possibly been so primitive, much as they had at Old Telegraph Station in Alice Springs. It goes without saying that the highlight was an exhibition about Neighbours. Unfortunately we didn’t have time to travel out to the set where it’s filmed - not that we would have done that mow as we’re not really into it any more. It’s not a patch on what it was during the Kylie and Jason days (see
Meeting The Neighbours).
Once we had finished for the day, I went off to get some night pictures of the city.
We had two nights in the apartments here. It was the first time that we had stayed in the same place for more than one night since Perth (see
Welcome Back to Australia).
Interestingly and coincidentally, we watched
Flinders Street Station
Front of the station at night the movie Crocodile Dundee on television and there was a particularly scene that was clearly recognisable as the exact lookout that we'd visited at Ubirr Rock in Kakadu National Park (see
Lessons in Discipline).
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