Anthony, I bow to your superior knowledge! I left Melbourne before my first birthday, and haven't returned to Oz (yet). The only thing I know about Melbourne's beaches is that a shark ate one of my Dad's friends. That would never have happened at Bondi, I'm sure!
Here's my local beach (the tide is in): http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St+Kilda+Victoria+ Australia&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.868417,144.969578&spn=0.030829,0.057335&t=h&z =14&iwloc=addr http://tinyurl.com/5dk3x7 Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Anthony Farr > Sent: 23 April 2008 15:08 > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > Subject: RE: Camera Bag for Travel Kit > > Bob, > Good to see that you haven't lost your grasp on Aussie > badinage. BTW there > was a minor typo in your message. I'm certain you must have > intended, "who > totally knows all stuff" when you wrote, "who knows totally > stuff all". > It's a crime how mail readers make erroneous auto-corrections > behind our > backs ;-) > > FWIW I've been a regular visitor to Melbourne for almost 40 > years, since my > teens. I have a pretty fair idea what it's like. Melbourne > braggadocio can > be wearing, though, in a way that only the residents of > Australia's other > cities can appreciate. Just recently I had to listen to a one eyed > Melbournian assert that Australia's best beaches are.... guess where? > Queensland's Gold Coast or Sunshine Coast? Perth's glorious surfing > beaches? The north coast of New South Wales around Byron Bay? No, > Australia's best beaches are... (drum roll)in Melbourne of > course. Aaack. > > Here's Melbourne's most famous beach: > http://tinyurl.com/5dk3x7 > > http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=St+Kilda+V > ictoria+Austra > lia&ie=UTF8&ll=-37.868417,144.969578&spn=0.030829,0.057335&t=h > &z=14&iwloc=ad > dr > > Here are my neighbourhood beaches in Sydney, not even the most famous: > http://tinyurl.com/62urno > > http://maps.google.com.au/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=freshwater > +beach+2096&sl > l=-25.335448,135.745076&sspn=68.730338,117.421875&ie=UTF8&t=h& > ll=-33.78143,1 > 51.290836&spn=0.032459,0.057335&z=14 > > Incredible. > > Yesterday a Sydney restaurant, Tetsuya's, made number 9 in a > world's best > restaurants list. A few months ago a different list put > Tetsuya's at number > 4 IIRC. Nothing from Melbourne was anywhere close. If only > I got 5 cents > every time I heard that Australia's best restaurants are in > Melbourne, I'd > be a rich man. > > Melbourne's not bad, it's nice. My home city, Sydney, is by > comparison a > blousy old tart with petticoats rumpled and disarrayed. Some > of my most > pleasing city scenes have been shot in Melbourne, however > it's difficult to > get a pleasing angle on Sydney that isn't already clichéd. > > But IMO, as someone in this corner of the world, Melbourne's > creative scene > is insufferably pretentious and arrogantly self-superior. > And not as good > as it claims. Sputnikagency isn't remarkably bad, it's typical. > > Regards, > Anthony Farr. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of > > Bob W > > Sent: Wednesday, 23 April 2008 6:25 AM > > To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' > > Subject: RE: Camera Bag for Travel Kit > > > > [snipped: totally biased and 1100% totally and utterly untrue and > > totally unjust rant against the pearl of Australian cities and its > > gentle folk obviously by some total drongo who knows > totally stuff all > > and nothing about culchah or totally fine places and people] > > > > > An > > > Australian joke is that > > > > the best thing to come out of Melbourne is the road. > > > > 2nd best, actually. > > > > Bob (born there) > > > > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly > above and follow the directions. > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
