Australian New Year Fireworks
Posted by TonyfromOz on 12/31/2008
One thing we have always done well here in Australia is New Year Fireworks displays. Where we live they had an excellent display lasting for 5 minutes in a park only half a mile away, and we watched it from our front driveway.
In Sydney they always put on a huge display, the focus being the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge, or ‘The Coathanger’ as it is affectionately called. They have two displays usually, a shorter one at 8.30 for families with young children so they can then get them home and into bed, and the longer version at midnight.
This years display at midnight lasted around twelve and a half minutes.
This series of four videos shows the full display slowed down to half speed. It was the Network Ten footage and was posted to YouTube by euromikeym.
As you can see, the focus is the Bridge but the Opera House can be seen in some of the images. People start packing the vantage points from mid afternoon, and the Harbour is also jam packed with boats of all types as well, with people making a night of it, and getting an even better vantage point.
The videos are in sequence from top to bottom.
