Finally!!! Beautiful weather today, cloudless blue skies and glorious sunshine and so I finally made it to the centre of Melbourne! (And I had a great late night possum encounter last night where one watched me from a tree for a while, and came quite close to me before getting bored and wandered off)
Firstly I went to an Opal store where the chap in there actually cuts and polishes the opals himself, and creates the doublets and triplets.... fascinating!! He also keeps a collection of spiders including black widows and the giant huntsman spiders that you get there and a bird-eating spider that he is “taming up”....shudder.
But he also had a fabulous python and a couple of gorgeous lizards.. The smoother looking one is called a “blue tongue”
Then I went to a place called Sophie Lane... purely because it was right next to Yarra Park.... had to have my photo taken there!
As the Melbourne fringe festival is on at the moment so there is a lot of street theatre going on around the place.
There were trams.. And tram drivers who are happy to pose for photos and the city itself is really quite beautiful... it is really reminiscent of the Southbank in London, which I like a lot, but also there are some really old Victorian French style houses, as well as some really cool modern ones too.
There was a fantastic Dali exhibition on at the national gallery and I got totally immersed in it for 3 hours, leaving me not enough time to get up the Eureka tower to get a great aerial view of the city before I ha to get back to Doncaster to meet Sean, but I took some good shots along the river and arrived in Doncaster just at the right time to catch the sun setting behind the Melbourne skyline.
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