I have visited Melbourne frequently and driven around Victoria a lot and NSW a bit.
- You can easily spend a day just poking around Melbourne's Victoria Market - Get to the beach! Melbourne's aren't that great, but Victoria's got lots. If you can get down to the bottom right corner of Oz, 90 Mile Beach is outstanding - Mornington Peninsula is beautiful and nice to explore - Eat Italian on Lygon St - Melbourne's a happening place; there's always something going on - Victoria State Library is architecturally magnificent - The neighborhoods (they call them "Suburbs", even if they're central) are just charming. Very few are without a decent bakery and a couple of coffee shops On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 5:44 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not from Australia, but I got to visit the same area in 2002 (in > May). I was with my daughter and part of a bus tour, so didn't have > the freedom to go where we wanted, but got away for some fun. > A long drive west of Melbourne is the Twelve Apostles, which was one > of the scenery highlights of the trip. (Google it along with Great > Ocean Road). Not sure if you will be able to get away that far, but > sure worth it. > > Melbourne is a city that I would love to return to. I'd call it the > San Francisco of Australia. Like San Francisco they didn't rip out > their street car system which is neat. Very artsy city. (Example, > while Sydney's Opera House gets all the press for it's architecture, > the Melbourne Opera House surpasses it in acoustics, being built > underground (several stories into bedrock, with something like 20 feet > of rock between each of the performance theaters). There is also a > great open air market in Melbourne. > > Sydney is a friendly city, considering its size. You can climb the > famous Sydney bridge (to the top), take boat tours around the Harbor, > etc. The highlight of the trip (for me) was a visit to the historic > Sydney Observatory. We were fortunate enough to have clear skies the > night we went and I got to observe Omega Centauri (the best globular > cluster in our sky and seen only from the Southern Hemisphere) in the > historic original refractor still housed in one of the domes. The > southern hemisphere has a whole different night sky, if you are into > the stars at all. North of Sydney a bit, is the famous Blue Mountains > region. > > May will provide you some autumn colors and mild temps. A great time > to visit. Enjoy! > > Darren Addy > Kearney, Nebraska > > -- > 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.
