Melbourne CBD skyline

The Melbourne CBD skyline is a dynamic mix of modern skyscrapers and historic architecture, defined by a significant boom in high-rise construction over the last decade. It is the tallest skyline in the Oceania region by number of completed skyscrapers.

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Date: Jan 9

Floral Clock

Queen Victoria Gardens is part of the Domain Parklands. The peaceful gardens are located on a triangle of land just across St Kilda Road from the Arts Centre Melbourne. The gardens were created in honour of Queen Victoria and her memorial is on the highest point of the gardens. The memorial is made from marble and granite and was opened in 1907. The gardens’ most famous feature is the Floral Clock, donated in 1966 to the City of Melbourne by a group of Swiss watchmakers. Low-growing floral bedding plants are used to create displays which are changed twice a year.

Thank you Marnie!
Date:July 18

Federal Parliament House

Federal Parliament House, Melbourne, 1907

Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Victoria, one of the parliaments of the Australian states and territories. Located on Spring Street on the edge of the Hoddle Grid, the grand colonnaded front dominates the vista up Bourke Street. The building is listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Thank you Marnie!
Date:July 2

Melbourne

Central Melbourne over the Yarra River, Victoria.
The Yarra River Precinct is Melbourne's tourism industry's vibrant heart and soul. Four kilometres of prime CBD river frontage links Melbourne’s Convention Centre and World Trade Centre with Crown Casino, Federation Square, Arts Centre Melbourne, the Royal Botanic Gardens and a nuclei of world-class sporting venues. In between the major venues lie an ever-growing array of restaurants, high-end shops, riverside bars and eateries, galleries and theatres. On the water itself, tour boats, dining cruises and water taxis share the river with rowing sculls that have been using the waterway competitively since the 1840s.

Many thanks Marnie!
Date: Jan 17

Melbourne

The beautiful Melbourne skyline seen from Southbank with Princes Bridge, a bridge in central Melbourne, Australia that spans the Yarra River. It is built on the site of one of the oldest river crossings in the city, and forms a gateway into the central city from the south.

Thanks so much Marnie. Gorgeous view.
Date: Jan 5

Tyama

Tyama: A deeper sense of knowing is an interactive journey into Victoria’s vibrant nocturnal world, using the senses of the animals we share it with. Created in partnership with Museums Victoria and inspired by First Peoples storytelling, the immersive experience invites audiences to play, connect and discover the magic of the museum’s collection through physical and digital worlds. With stunning immersive projections, tactile environment design, and beautiful soundscapes, Tyama is an unmissable interactive museum experience that explores what it is to know with not just our minds, but all of our senses.

Thanks a lot Marnie.
Date: Dec 19

Melbourne Zoo

A beautiful kangaroo from Melbourne Zoo!
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Date: Dec 22

Melbourne Zoo

A beautiful snow leopard from Melbourne Zoo which is home to 5 Snow leopards, Miska and Kang Ju and their 3 cubs Asha, Manju and Sikari, born early 2020. Melbourne Zoo is part of the European breeding program for the species, and mum Miska and dad Kang-Ju were brought together at the Zoo as part of the international breeding program.

Thanks so much Erin!
Date: Nov 28

Manchester Unity Building

The Manchester Unity Building is an Art Deco Gothic inspired office and retail building in Melbourne. The soaring stepped corner tower on a prominent intersection opposite the Melbourne Town Hall makes it one of the most prominent and best known buildings in Melbourne.

This card shows the Melbourne skyline, as seen from the Level 12 Tower and home of Collins Street Orthodontics.

Thanks a lot Marnie!
Date: July 31

Manchester Unity Building

The Manchester Unity Building is an Art Deco Gothic inspired office and retail building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, constructed in 1931–32 for the Manchester Unity Independent Order of Oddfellows. The soaring stepped corner tower on a prominent intersection opposite the Melbourne Town Hall makes it one of the most prominent and best known buildings in Melbourne.

The Level 12 terrace offers a direct encounter with the building's five-storey tower, now the home of Collins Street Orthodontics.

Thank you Marnie!
Date: June 2

Melbourne Tram

Trams are a major form of public transport in Melbourne. The City Circle is a free and convenient way to see the major attractions of central Melbourne while travelling on one of the city's iconic heritage W-Class trams.

Thanks a lot Marnie!
Date: May 26

The Arts Centre

With its iconic spire, Arts Centre Melbourne is both an architectural and cultural landmark in Melbourne. It is the flagship of the performing arts in the state of Victoria and the focal point of the cultural precinct in Melbourne. Housing an array of venues, Arts Centre Melbourne is Australia's largest and busiest performing arts venue, staging more than 4,400 performances and public events each year.

Thanks a lot Marnie!

Melbourne

Some views from Melbourne: Crown Entertainment Complex, Yarra River, Melbourne sports precinct, Bathing Boxes - Brighton, Little Penguins - Phillip Island, The Twelve Apostles near Port Campbell, Flinders St Station, Yarra by night, Cook's Cottage - Fitzroy Gardens.

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Date: Jan 21

Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens

The Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens in Melbourne, Victoria. 
Read more about it here: the maxicard edition
Thanks a lot Marnie!
Date: June 6

Rod Laver Arena

I already had the maxicard version of this card. I hope to be back here next year!
Thanks a lot Cindy!
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Date: Jan 3

Rod Laver Arena

Rod Laver Arena is a multipurpose arena located within Melbourne Park, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The arena is the main venue for the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam tennis tournament of the calendar year. Variously known as 'Flinders Park', the 'National Tennis Centre' or 'Centre Court', officially opened in 1988, the venue was renamed Rod Laver Arena in 2000, in recognition of Rod Laver's remarkable tennis career that saw him achieve the Grand Slam twice and cement himself as Australia's and one of the world's greatest ever male tennis champions.

If not because of covid and closed borders it would be my 5th year to attend the Australian Open this January so I'm crazy happy with this card! Thanks so much Helen. 
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Date: Dec 21

City Circle tram

The City Circle, also referred to as Melbourne tram route 35 is a zero-fare tram running around the Melbourne City Centre. The tram service operates within Melbourne's central business district in a circular route passing major tourist attractions, as well as linking with other tram, train and bus routes in and around Melbourne. The City Circle route is serviced by heritage W class trams decorated in special maroon and green with yellow and gold trimmings, as well as MMTB's standard traditional green liveried W Class trams.

Thanks a lot Dawn!
Date: Dec 12

Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens

The Royal Exhibition Building and its surrounding Carlton Gardens were designed for the great international exhibitions of 1880 and 1888 in Melbourne. The building is constructed of brick and timber, steel and slate. It combines elements from the Byzantine, Romanesque, Lombardic and Italian Renaissance styles. The site comprises three parcels of Crown Land in the City of Melbourne, being two Crown Land Reserves for Public Recreation (Carlton Gardens) and one dedicated to the exhibition building and the recently-constructed museum (Exhibition Reserve). Positioned in the Exhibition Reserve, with the Carlton Gardens to the north and the south, is the Great Hall. This building is cruciform in plan and incorporates the typical architectural template of earlier exhibition buildings: namely a dome, great portal entries, viewing platforms, towers, and fanlight windows. The formal Carlton Gardens, with its tree-lined pathways, fountains and lakes, is an integral part of the overall site design and also characteristic of exhibition buildings of this period.

Unesco: Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens
Thanks a lot Azzi!
RR: Vacation RR
Date: Nov 23

From Melbourne

Brighton Beach Bathing Boxes.
Iconic & much-photographed group of 82 brightly coloured wooden beach huts from the early 1900s.
As simple structures, all retain classic Victorian architectural features with timber framing, weatherboards and corrugated iron roofs. They remain as they did over one hundred years ago, as licensed bathing boxes. No service amenities such as electricity or water are connected.
Although approximately 1,860 bathing boxes, boatsheds and similar structures are located around Port Phillip Bay and Western Port, the Brighton bathing boxes are the only remaining structures of their kind close to the Melbourne central business district.

Thanks a lot Bonnie!
Date: June 10

Melbourne

I've sent this city view card home from my trip to Melbourne, the coastal capital of the southeastern Australian state of Victoria. Melbourne Skyline with St Paul's Cathedral seen from Southbank.