Week 354
FROM HEYINGTON TO THE CITY
A
five-and-a-bit kilometre walk this Sunday from Heyington Station to Flinders
Street Station all along the
Yarra River proved not only good exercise on a warm (28°C) afternoon, but also
this week's offering of
images. I started from the station, walked along the railway line to the first
bridge where I crossed to the
river's right bank, walking between the Monash Freeway and the Burnley golf
course up to the Mac
Robertsons bridge. Here I crossed back to the left bank, following it all the
way downstream to Princes
Bridge and Flinders St Station. My objective this week is to show the river as
it is enjoyed by people...
1. Looking downstream from the railway bridge where I crossed the first time. Yarra Boulevard on the right.
2. The view back upstream from the Mac Robertsons Bridge. My previous vantage point is around a double bend in the river.
3. Zooming
in towards the city from under the Morell Bridge. Citylink, the tolled
extension of the Monash Freeway, is on the right.
The stands of the new stadium are progressing well are already a new
landmark of the city. The bridge is the Swan Street Bridge.
4. A single scull about to go under the Swan St Bridge.
5. The Ferris wheel in the Birrarung Mar reserve.
6. Another view of the Ferris wheel, and an aboriginal-style sculpture.
7. Florence is a floating party venue.
8. The Arts Centre Sunday
market is held under Arts Centre and next to the river. Not easy to make
one's way through the throng
of browsers and shoppers!
9. The piers of the Princes
Bridge seen from the Flinders St station side of the river. One
can just glimpse a bit of the Sunday market activity in the shadowy area
across the
river...
10. One of the lamps providing light along Flinders Walk on the north bank of the Yarra.