Girl in Melbourne: A Moomba triple treat

Friday, 6 March 2009

A Moomba triple treat

Southgate - St Kilda Road underpass on my way to Moomba

Moomba sideshow alley

Skywheel at Birrarung Marr

I took more than 160 photos today - too hard to choose just one! Too hard to choose only three actually...

3 comments:

Anonymous7 March 2009 at 08:34
love love love the clowns :)(and the others are great too!)

did you ride the wheel???
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Jayne7 March 2009 at 10:04
Love 'em!
Those clowns (well not those exact clowns but some of them out there on the sideshow circuit) are almost 100 yrs old. Can never think of the Melb Show or Moomba or Mordialloc Festival without thinking of those clowns.
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Jayne10 March 2009 at 14:06
Hi Victoria. No, I didn't ride the wheel that night, but I have been on it before.

Hi Jayne. I didn't know there were such old clowns still around but I like it. Adds a little olde worlde charm to what is mostly a tacky and garish display.
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* Brunswick Street
* Chapel Street Bazaar.
* It has a lane named after rock band AC/DC and a swimming pool named after a Prime Minister who is believed to have drowned at sea
* Its vibrant multiculturalism
* Royal Botanic Gardens.
* Shady Caroline Street in South Yarra
* The disco balls hanging above Rankins Lane in the city
* The domed reading room of the State Library.
* The eucalyptus trees and old lamps beside the river near Fed Square.
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* The street art (commissioned and otherwise).
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