Presumably other folks are still on holidays as well. Being on holidays offers the opportunity to take some piccies and try (and fail) to think of funny or intelligent things to say about them. What follows are some, well, photos.
St Kilda: cranky residents, a beach, a boat, a bloke swimming, a seagull and a strange big clown (no wonder lots of people in the area take drugs):
Melbourne:
While waiting to go see an old court house, a bloke with lots of tattoos and piercings walked by and laughed while saying, “I remember me mum bailing me out of there in the 1970s.” Visiting the Old Melbourne Gaol offers an interesting insight into the way authorities obviously used to believe that sensory deprivation was an important part of the incarceration process. The graffiti below is on a door in the women’s section of the old watchhouse, which closed in 1994. In relation to the photos of the women: two were hanged for murder and one was was a thief.
Nice pix, especially the one of Eureka tower (which I must go up one day).
What was that theory about many criminal women often having too much testosterone, and often looking like men? Works for the first two female criminals.
I’ve had a close look at the St Kilda triangle development proposal, and I reckon it’s great, cant wait for it to be finished, it’ll make a wasted, not particularly pleasant space so much more civilised. With better views over the bay! And thank goodness they demolished the Palace, what an awful eyesore that always was.
That sun looks awfully bright! I particularly like the shimmer of the sea in the beach shot. I can feel the heat.
Terrific set of holiday pics, Darlene.
Funny that the whole gist of the wankers whinging about the development on St. Kilda’s triangle area talking about it ruining St. Kilda’s character, not realising that the McApartments and theit NIMBY attitudes ruined that character long ago.
One third the size sounds like a good message to me though not on the ground there.
They have been trying to destroy St Kildas special character for years and residents have done as well as possible to contain another stuff up.
Come in David Tiley and interesting pix Darlene.
St Kilda’s ‘character’ disappeared sometime in the early 90s. There are remnants, but it’s really not that special a place nowadays. There are nicer spots on Melbourne’s bays.
Wilful, maybe your favoured solution will make it worse.
Citizens saved the Espy!
Show us the plans and assure us you do not have a hidden aggenda.
The plans are fully available online. Of course they have an agenda – retail spaces to make money out it. But lots of public open space and lots of money that otherwise wouldn’t be there to fix up the palais.
Why do we need to bargain off great public spaces and architecture for a pocket full of cherries from business groups ,wiful?
My old mum who lived in St Kilda in the 1930s told me that its “character” had disappeared in the 1970s when I took her there to revisit her old haunts.
Which just goes to show ‘character’ is relative. If the State Govt would put some money into refurbishing the Palais, then the development wouldn’t be so huge.
I predict it will get scaled down as the Council are running very scared about this. There’s just too much, high profile, local opposition.
Actually someone set fire to the Palace. Same result and as you say no loss.
,em>Why do we need to bargain off great public spaces and architecture for a pocket full of cherries from business groups ,wiful?
Because great public spaces and architecture cost a lot of money? There’s no way the triangle redevelopment would have gone ahead if it relied on State or local govt funds.
It’s fairly easy to see who set fire to the Palace. But, you wouldn’t want to see that happen to the Palais. Wilful, the point is if the State Government put some money into the site, then the development wouldn’t need to be so inappropriately large.