11/24/2008

Skydeck88 at Australia's Melbourne. By Uncle Monty.

Skydeck88 at Australia's Melbourne.
Story By Uncle Monty.
Photos By Alex Albion.
^^^
A modern skyline city, Melbourne is the capital
of the State of Victoria with a population of
4.8 million people. It has a mix of old Italian
and Greek immigrants from the 1950's and
later in the 1980's a large inflow of Lebanese
and Pacific Island people. The most recent and
newest immigrants are Sudanese and Somalians,
who are being blamed now for the latest skyrock-
ing crime rates at Melbourne, at Victoria, and
at South Australia's capital of Adelaide. Reading
the Andrew Bolt column in Australia's local Sun
Herald newspaper with his story "Race Offense
Against Truth," it seems that to say something
bad about bad immigrants is fround upon here
much like in England at where almost 2 million
Africans have been allowed to flood the country
under New Labour's policy of mass immigration
of the scale unseen ever before in the UK. But
looking around Melbourne in the past two days
looks to me to be pretty mild of the numbers of
African immigrants here compared to London.
In fact, the numbers of Asians far outnumber
the Africans I have seen on the streets here.
But no matter at wherever they show up,
African immigrants invarably bring trouble
and bad news with them. It seems at Oz,
they've done pretty much the same although
their numbers here are a trife compared to
those found in Britain and Europe itself.
^^^
Elsewhere at Melbourne there stands the
tallest building in the Southern Hemisphere
that is named The Eureka Tower (shown
above) with its 88-floor high magnificent
structure that confirm's Melbourne's
status as indeed a modern skyline city
that rivals the biggest and best of any
American city today, architectually
speaking. The street layout of Mel-
bourne is much like an American city,
too, with the city centre of straight-
lined streets and town blocks.
^^^

Known simply as Skydeck88, the Eureka
Tower's panoramic view from the top deck is
truly awesome and a photographer's delight to
be able to capture, like I did, the Aussie city
in all its true size and modern shape.
Although with that said, I don't consider
Melbourne to be a beautiful or grandly state
territorial capital by far. In some ways, it's
rather unattractive to the eye at first.
At least to me ...
^^^
Here's alittle more about Skydeck88.
It's the world tallest residential tower.
The facade consists of glass and alumin-
ium panels covering an area of 40.000
square meters. And, 24 carat gold-plated
glass is found at the top 10 of the 88
floors. It has 3.680 stairs and the build-
ing cost AUS$500 million when it opened
in 2006 after over 4 years to complete.
My panoramic photos of Skydeck 88 will
be uploaded once I have access to do so.
^^^
Today at Melbourne as turned out to
be a very hot summer's day after being
damp and dreary yesterday. The heat
now is enough to give me a nice and
needed sun tan ... I'm now off to
Australia's capital of Canberra that is
a 9 to 10 hour drive and not a 5 or 6
hour one that I first believed was
the case.
^^^
Must rush again to be off elsewhere in
The Land of Oz, which I am enjoying so
much just being here for the first time in
my life. It also mean I have now visited
ever continent in the world, except Antar-
tica, by my visit here to Australiasia ...
^^^
Cheers, Uncle Monty.
+St. Richard, 2oo8.
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