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Our Melbourne Australia Travel Guide will show you all the things to do in Melbourne especially if you only have a short time. Visit Melbourne's Luna Park and ride the worlds oldest roller coaster! See the St. Kilda Penguins, and take the Melbourne Tram on a free tour of the city! Planning your trip to Melbourne Australia? Watch this first!
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TOP 20 HAWTHORN (MELBOURNE) Attractions (Things to Do & See)
Best places to visit in Hawthorn (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia. Hawthorn is a suburb in Melbourne, located about 6 km from Melbourne's CBD.
Things to do in Hawthorn is to visit some best places such as Melbourne Tram Museum, Central Gardens, Anderson Park, Fairview Park, St James Park, Victorian Telecommunications Museum, Yarra Bank Reserve, Grace Park, Creswick Street Reserve and Pridmore Park.
Other popular tourist attractions in Hawthorn - Melbourne is Smart Street Reserve, Sir William Angliss Reserve, Hawthorn Railway Station, The Auburn Tower, L E Bray Park, Auburn Railway Station, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Morang Reserve, Patterson Reserve and Glenferrie Railway Station.
Thats all about where to go or what to do list in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria. Watching others Melbourne's tourist attractions or destinations in our channel.
Seeing the sights of Ballarat VIC
Seeing the sights of Ballarat VIC
Well it started as a video about nothing in Ballarat but we got to go site seeing and found some really cool places!
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Ararat, the Australian Town founded by Chinese! Pt.1
This was a project I did for the ABC (Australian National Broadcaster) in 2004. It was done in flash format as bandwidth couldn't handle video back then. This is the first of a four part series that follows the fortunes of the country town of my birth. As flash is about to become obsolete, I decided to convert it to a movie format, to save it as a historical archive.
Ararat is not much different from a hundred other small country towns you may pass through to get from one place to another. Next time you stop over for a break, spare a thought for Ararat's rich history.
Ararat got it's name when the rather poetic explorer Horatio Wills proclaimed to his travel party, on choosing a nearby mountain on which to camp, We will call it Mount Ararat, for like the Ark we rested here
It wasn't until the chance finding of gold, by 700 traveling Chinese, some 17 years later in 1857, that the township of Ararat was born. People from all over Australia, and for that matter the world, rushed to the local area in the hope of making their fortune. Many, like my own Irish ancestors stayed on to become farmers long after golden dreams ran dry.
So stay a while, grab a drink and watch the movie, and learn a little about my Town .
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Gold - Crevicing on the Turon River, NSW, Australia Jan. 2012
Slide show on crevicing for gold on the Turon River rock bars. Easy pickings after the 2010 flood.
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The driedout lake George Parish near Canberra, NSW, Australia
The driedout lake George Parish near Canberra, NSW, Australia
Exploring A Giant Soviet Mine Crucial To World War II - Part 2
After visiting the tailings fields I ended the first video of this Soviet abandoned mine series with, I drove back and started working my way around the base of the mountain in search of a haulage tunnel leading into that giant pit that we also saw in the first video. I was absolutely convinced that there had to be a large haulage tunnel as it did not make sense for the miners to have gone through the extraordinary amount of effort it would have required to lift all of the (heavy) lead ore up and out of the pit and then down again to the mill, when it could have simply been dropped down and taken out straight through a haulage tunnel. So, when I spotted the adit that I explored in this video, I was convinced that I had found the mysterious haulage tunnel that I was seeking.
We missed this adit on the drive in because it is at a sort of angle to the road that makes it much easier to spot when driving away from Bayzhansay than when driving into Bayzhansay. So, it wasn’t until I was working my way around the mountain, looking specifically for a haulage tunnel, that I discovered it. However, it would be perfectly obvious to anyone leaving the village.
As I was so sure that this haulage tunnel just led straight to that giant pit and wouldn’t take more than a few minutes to check out, I went charging in with just one battery for the camera and without even bothering with the gas meters since the air flow was so strong. One of the most valuable things that one can learn in life is to not make assumptions and my experience in this part of the abandoned mine is a perfect example of the wisdom of that… Frankly, I don’t know if the adit connected to the pit or not. There WAS air flowing in from somewhere and so, after considering it, I believe it is possible that some of those ore passes or stopes lead up to the bottom of the pit. They could be mostly blocked with rock debris falling in from the pit, but still open enough to allow air flow.
Alternatively, the workings explored in this video may have had nothing to do with the large pit and were a separate operation to extract the lead ore deeper in the earth. The Soviet Union was not renowned for its labor efficiency and so perhaps the miners really did lift the ore up and out from that huge pit. The air flow underground may have been coming from crevices in the mountain or from air shafts hidden away in those upper levels I was unable to reach as a result of the rotten ladders.
Either way, there was definitely a hell of a lot more to this adit than it simply being a haulage tunnel... The lower workings must be immense if that giant stope that was turned into an underground lake is any indication. I am bitterly sorry that I did not have the time to explore this adit more thoroughly.
If you’re curious to see where this adit is on a map or a program like Google Earth in relation to the mountain we visited in the first video or to Bayzhansay, the GPS coordinates are: 43.165717, 69.914331. If you look, you’ll notice that it is a straight shot toward the pit, which served to further convince me that it was a haulage tunnel.
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Growing up in California’s “Gold Rush Country” made it easy to take all of the history around us for granted. However, abandoned mine sites have a lot working against them – nature, vandals, scrappers and various government agencies… The old prospectors and miners that used to roam our lonely mountains and toil away deep underground are disappearing quickly as well.
These losses finally caught our attention and we felt compelled to make an effort to document as many of the ghost towns and abandoned mines that we could before that colorful niche of our history is gone forever. But, you know what? We enjoy doing it! This is exploring history firsthand – bushwhacking down steep canyons and over rough mountains, figuring out the techniques the miners used and the equipment they worked with, seeing the innovations they came up with, discovering lost mines that no one has been in for a century, wandering through ghost towns where the only sound is the wind... These journeys allow a feeling of connection to a time when the world was a very different place. And I’d love to think that in some small way we are paying tribute to those hardy miners that worked these mines before we were even born.
So, yes, in short, we are adit addicts… I hope you’ll join us on these adventures!
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[4K] Melbourne, Victoria - Australia Drone View
Drone view of Melbourne, Victoria - Australia
Daytime and Nighttime drone footage.
Etihad Stadium, Melbourne Skyline, Docklands, Melbourne Star Observation Wheel, Southern Cross Station
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Baw Baw National Park 4x4 trip
TODAY Show Weather Cross - Yachtshare - Gold Coast International Boat Show - March 2017
TODAY Show Weather Cross with Natalia Cooper, March 17 2017 for the Gold Coast International Boat Show & Marine Expo with Anton from Yachtshare on board a beautiful french catamaran.
Boating enthusiasts turned out in record numbers for Queensland’s biggest boat show and the significant economic benefits from the show’s record sales are now set to energise the marine industry for many weeks, months and years.
Over 23,000 visitors from around Australia and the world streamed through the Gold Coast International Boat Show’s welcome gates for a massive $150 million showcase this year staged for the first time over three days in March.
Event & Marketing Manager Emma Brown said thousands of boating families were genuinely excited to ‘see it all first’ at the Gold Coast boat show created specifically for families who just love the boating life.
“The majority of our visitors are experienced boaters but there were also many families who are completely new to boating who were able to experience everything from free sailing and waterskiing lessons to fishing demonstrations, boat-building factory tours and even no-obligation sea trials with The Mercury Edge,” she said.
“It’s very gratifying to play a part in helping those families to experience and enjoy all the rewards of the boating life.”