Flinders Street Station from the less glamorous western end, highlighting the clock tower at the end of Elizabeth Street. Zoe and I had a quick trip into the city for a visit to the Imigration Museum. The sun was out but the wind was bitter, a relief after the rain earlier in the week.
The long room at the Melbourne Immigration Museum. This museum used to the the Customs House and the long room was where the merchants and customs officer met to pay the duty on imported goods.
Melbourne’s Anglican Cathedral, St Paul’s from Swanston Street. The fence surrounds the under construction Metro Tunnel Town Hall railway station, and not an anti-church barricade.
The Melbourne Town Hall decorated for Christmas, complete with a complement of Nutcracker Men.
The view across the Yarra and through the Alexandra Gardens to the Arts Centre Spire.
Nathan Sawaya’s Guinness Record Winning Lego Tyrannosaurus Rex. This 6 metre long life-sized art work is made up of over 80 thousand bricks is the largest Lego skeleton. The T Rex is seen here as part of the Art of the Brick exhibition at the 2011 MUGs Brickvention.
Pedestal by Nathan Sawaya, a part of the Art of the Brick exhibition at the MUGs Brickvention in 2011.
Nathan Sawaya’s Parthenon constructed out of more than 30,000 pieces of Lego. It is seen here as a part of the Art of the Brick exhibition at the MUGs 2011 Brickvention.
And our final view of the Sydney Opera House from this trip, showing the patterns on the sails.
With the sun providing backlight, we get to see the tile patterns on the Sydney Opera House sails.
A look under the sails on the Sydney Opera House shows the ribs that hold them up.
The patterns of the tiles on the Sydney Opera House against a marbled sky.