Showing posts with label melbourne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label melbourne. Show all posts
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Pattys travels to Melbourne and Tasmania nov 2008 part3
Land ahoy
Loading on boat
The Sun Princess
Spirit of Tasmania
4m waves expected
Checking on the boat
Clean car
waiting with a wine
In Melbourne
I think he likes the hawkes. Shepaton. X
Arrived in Victoria
At Jerilderie..Home of Ned Kelly
Cattle on the road
Cattle on the road
Fruit fly exclusion zone
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Jogger hospitalised after kangaroo attack
A man who was attacked by a kangaroo after he reportedly came between the marsupial and its pack while jogging down a suburban street is recovering in hospital.
The man, aged in his 50s, was in the outer Melbourne suburb of Sunbury when he was struck at around 1.20pm.
Paramedics arrived a short time later and treated the man for several scratches to his head, chest, arms and hand, Victorian paramedic Stephen Weissbacher said in a statement.
"He was jogging near his home when he was attacked by a male kangaroo, he managed to fight the kangaroo off and made his way to a neighbour's house," he said.
"We bandaged his head and gave him fluid at the scene."
The animal is believed to have become spooked when it became separated from other kangaroos nearby.
The injured man is recovering at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
The man, aged in his 50s, was in the outer Melbourne suburb of Sunbury when he was struck at around 1.20pm.
Paramedics arrived a short time later and treated the man for several scratches to his head, chest, arms and hand, Victorian paramedic Stephen Weissbacher said in a statement.
"He was jogging near his home when he was attacked by a male kangaroo, he managed to fight the kangaroo off and made his way to a neighbour's house," he said.
"We bandaged his head and gave him fluid at the scene."
The animal is believed to have become spooked when it became separated from other kangaroos nearby.
The injured man is recovering at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in a stable condition.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Sleep, sweet sleep, and Chloe
Finally we are into our beautiful hotel room, and just look at those pillows! The next mornng, two glorious hot-air balloons drift over us. A quick visit to Chloe, a famous painting, completes the visit.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Triva
Invented in Melbourne
Melbourne inventions include the Black Box Flight Recorder and the Bionic Ear to name a few.
Australians great ideas and vision can be seen by the many Melbourne inventions that have helped improve the lives of people all over the world.
Australian System - 1856
Eight Hour Day - 1856
Australian Rules Football - 1858
Telephane - 1885
Electrical Drill - 1889
First Feature Length Film - 1906
Kiwi Shoe Polish - 1906
Hills Hoist - 1912
Aspro - 1917
Trugo - 1918
Vegemite - 1923
Not only invented in Melbourne but every jar of Vegemite 'ever made' has come from the Melbourne factory at Fisherman Bend.
MacRobertson Chocolates
Utility Vehicle - the 'Ute' - 1933
Dim Sims - 1945
Black Box Flight Recorder - 1958
Bionic Ear - 1979
In-vitro fertilisation - 1984
Not so rainy
Melbourne is not Australia's wettest capital city. Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin and Perth all receive much higher annual rainfalls. However, Melbourne does have the highest number of rainy days.
It's also interesting that the average Melbourne summer will see more 30C plus days than in Sydney, although overall averages are lower, Sydney being further north.
First feature film made in Melbourne
The world's first feature film was shot in Melbourne. 'The Story of the Kelly Gang' was filmed by the Tait Brothers at a property in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg and is generally thought to be the first ever narrative full-length feature film.
Running over an hour, the film was first shown at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre on Collins Street in 1906. In 1910 the Victorian government banned the film because they believed the film incited people to crime. Only scraps of the film and a few out-takes remain.
Melbourne inventions include the Black Box Flight Recorder and the Bionic Ear to name a few.
Australians great ideas and vision can be seen by the many Melbourne inventions that have helped improve the lives of people all over the world.
Australian System - 1856
Eight Hour Day - 1856
Australian Rules Football - 1858
Telephane - 1885
Electrical Drill - 1889
First Feature Length Film - 1906
Kiwi Shoe Polish - 1906
Hills Hoist - 1912
Aspro - 1917
Trugo - 1918
Vegemite - 1923
Not only invented in Melbourne but every jar of Vegemite 'ever made' has come from the Melbourne factory at Fisherman Bend.
MacRobertson Chocolates
Utility Vehicle - the 'Ute' - 1933
Dim Sims - 1945
Black Box Flight Recorder - 1958
Bionic Ear - 1979
In-vitro fertilisation - 1984
Not so rainy
Melbourne is not Australia's wettest capital city. Sydney, Brisbane, Darwin and Perth all receive much higher annual rainfalls. However, Melbourne does have the highest number of rainy days.
It's also interesting that the average Melbourne summer will see more 30C plus days than in Sydney, although overall averages are lower, Sydney being further north.
First feature film made in Melbourne
The world's first feature film was shot in Melbourne. 'The Story of the Kelly Gang' was filmed by the Tait Brothers at a property in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelberg and is generally thought to be the first ever narrative full-length feature film.
Running over an hour, the film was first shown at Melbourne's Athenaeum Theatre on Collins Street in 1906. In 1910 the Victorian government banned the film because they believed the film incited people to crime. Only scraps of the film and a few out-takes remain.
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