Well hello there all you walkers out there on Wednesday enjoy your day and capturing the beauty and wonder of your walking!
The great community was created by the very talented @tattoodjay with the gorgeous #elizacheng with her #makemesmile challenge and if you also want to share you wonderful #Wednesdaywalks with us and make ElizaCheng smile too, then just click on this link to find out how and hopefully we will see you next Wednesday! created/hive-155530
I hope that you’re well and today I’d like to share with you I walked that I took at the historic Station Pier and Beacon Cove in Port Melbourne a few days ago.
I have previously shared a walk of the Main Street of Port Melbourne here @chocolatescorpi/a-warm-wandering-wishful-wonderful-wednesday-walk-through-port-melbourne-to-the-beach-and-beyond and gave you a little bit of a history on this interesting suburb of Melbourne, but it’s quite a large suburb and at that stage I did not take you up to the historically significant Station Pier where I walked all over those over those old timbers to take these great photos!
So if you’d like to join my pictorial tour, come on in to follow me and I’ll show you a little bit of my #wednesdaywalk at the historic Station Pier and Beacon Cove in Port Melbourne where the Spirit of Tasmania now docks, where I got some great shots all around the area.
Station Pier, the end of the line for the #109 tram, once transporting passengers along the TRAIN line from the numerous cargo and passenger ships that docked at the pier in the days gone by, now carrying both locals passengers and those from the international cruiseships that also dock here during the summer cruising season.
It was a really windy day so I was glad to have this lifebuoy here!
Just docked on the other side of the pier you can see the Spirit of Tasmania towering above the historical building
Departing both ports nightly as well as operating day sailings during peak periods. We're not just a ferry from Melbourne to Tasmania and back, we’ve got all your accommodation needs covered too.
https://www.spiritoftasmania.com.au/
At the meeting of the Women’s Welcome Committee (WWC) held on Thursday 31 January 1918, Mrs E F Russell reminded the group of an intention raised some time ago to erect a monument on Sinclair Parade to commemorate the memory of fallen soldiers and the work of the committee. She suggested a band rotunda and drinking fountain, as there is no sweeter commemoration than music.
With about 1,000 people in attendance, the rotunda was opened by the Mayor, Cr Richard Gill, about 3pm on the afternoon of Sunday 27 October 1918.
https://portmelbfirstworldwar100.org.au/wwc-band-rotunda/
Off for a little tour down the pretty pathway to see what's at the other end. Join me?
Permanently memorialised around the edges of the Rotunda, are numerous names of family and friends gone but not forgotten.
As you can see, I wasn't the only one out and about that day.
The Port Melbourne Leading Lights were built in 1924, and in conjunction guided ships by marking the centre of the Port Melbourne Channel from Port Phillip Bay.
The Port Melbourne Leading Lights are of architectural and historic significance as a rare building type in Victoria because of the materials and form adopted which represents a notable application of the Trinity lighthouse design to a navigational installation of this type.
Whilst not distinctive in function, the combination of form and placement of the Port Melbourne Leading Lights, one in the water which of timber construction is unusual when compared to other similar structures.
The easement following the line of sight between the lights is essential to their significance, linking as it does the land based light to the water based light.
‘The Port Melbourne Front Light is a round and tapered wooden-framed light built on piles. It used to be linked to the shore by a narrow wooden footbridge.
The tower used to show a fixed green light over a 26 degree sector, whilst a second green light occulted every six seconds in the four degree sector marking the centre of the Port Melbourne Channel. The light has not been in use for many years.
The Port Melbourne Leading Lights are historically significant as structures surviving from an important visual and functional link between Princes and Station Piers and along with these piers reflect the pattern of shipping activity during the 1920s and 1930s.
The Rear Light is a 26 metre concrete tower, 500 m north of the Front Light.
Its main light is red, occulting every six seconds, and three metres below it is a 24 hour a day directional light, with green, white and red sectors, each showing over only a fraction of a degree, to mark the precise centre of the channel, in a particularly narrow arc of 1.5 degrees.
https://www.pmhps.org.au/2015/07/the-leading-lights/
And here is the door to your own lighthouse @tattoodjay 🤣 A bit squashy inside though I think...
The lighthouses have been preserved as part of a new housing estate that has transformed the old industrial port area, originally built to guide ships into.
The Rear Light is still operating and has become a feature of the new residential street Beacon Vista to the port, aligned with the Rear and Front Lights.
The Port Melbourne Front Light, just offshore between Princes Pier and Station Pier, is a round and tapered wooden-framed light built on piles. It used to be linked to the shore by a narrow wooden footbridge, which fell into disrepair and was removed.
The tower used to show a fixed green light over a 26 degree sector, whilst a second green light occulted every six seconds in the four degree sector marking the centre of the Port Melbourne Channel. The light has not been exhibited for many years.
https://lighthouses.org.au/vic/port-melbourne-lead-lights/
The double story green building in the centre stands on Princess Pier which Opened in 1951, the pier was able to hold some of the biggest mail ships and steamers back in the day. Over the years, the pier played a key role in both commerce and defence.
https://www.melbournepoint.com.au/attractions/princes-pier/
As you can see, this is also home to many thousands of Port Melbournians.
Can you imagine how much it would cost to buy or rent in this gorgeous area?
Which reminds me a bit of Miami in the USA maybe???
Either way, it is a beautiful place to be.
On the way out I found these flowers for you to enjoy.
And here's Sammy Seagull to thank you for joining us on this tour and to wish you a wonderful week ahead.
Thank you so much for reading my post , I really hope that you enjoyed it and look forward to your comments and thoughts.
🐠🐃🐌🕷🐍🐓🦆🐸🐁🐿🦋🐢🐞🦍🐈🦆🐥🐜🦑🐛🐄🦇🐪🦏🐳🐊🦀🦌🐖🐢🐏🐋🐝
And unless otherwise stated- ALL photographs, all media, material and writings, are all my originals taken by me sometime in the past few decades or so somewhere in my travels and as such, ofcourse they are subject to all international IP and copyright laws and I may have already used them for my own commercial purposes here https://www.redbubble.com/people/CHOCOLATESCORPI/shop And here https://fineartamerica.com/art/chocolatescorpi, So please ask first if you want to use any of them as we wouldn't want you getting into trouble. Thank you 😊
🐠🐃🐌🕷🐍🐓🦆🐸🐁🐿🦋🐢🐞🦍🐈🦆🐥🐜🦑🐛🐄🦇🐪🦏🐳🐊🦀🦌🐖🐢🐏🐋🐝
The Ladies of Hive- your own crypto world girl gang full of fun and suprises, so click on the link to find out more about this brilliant community of caring, companionship and creative contests, such as this one....@ladiesofhive/ladies-of-hive-community-contest-53
@hiveaustralia, formerly @teamaustralia check us out now!
(cause we're all such damn cool cats...😁
