Parking Melbourne Airport - Tullamarine Victoria - short term parking- to pick up passengers

Your passenger needs to ring you when they have got their luggage and got across the taxi and bus lanes over to the " One Minute " pick up area , where you can drive in and pick them up fast - but stay with your car.

If you arrive at the airport before your passenger is in this spot you need to wait , not possible in the Arrivals section, at the teminal, not on the road side to the terminal, where you will not be fined! but here:

A short term parking area at Melbourne Airport called "Ring and Ride" .

It is located inside the "Long Term" car park you find signs to this well lit, on leaving the highway from Melbourne, along Terminal Drive - the only way into the airport from Melbourne.
[ There are some small unlit signs on the left of this road about g the "Ring and Ride" parking.. here too but on a dark night - in speeding congested traffic there is no time to read them.]

The parking fees under an hour aravel melbournere small..over an hour and you can pay a lot!

However, if u want you can exit BEFORE AN HOUR by paying off the parking ticket machine $4 you can leave and re-enter.

Then drive left out of this parking area and go towards Melbourne then left back on highway and enter again.

I stayed from 6pm -7.25 pm and it was $15.00!! - to get out! [credit cards work]

Parking attendant on duty, well lit area too.

PARKING FEES 2012

"0-20 minutes – FREE
20-40 minutes - $2
40 – 60 minutes - $4

Normal Long Term Car Park rates apply after one hour. [EXPENSIVE]
An automatic pay station is located close to the ‘Ring & Ride’ zone." [ AT EXIT]
CLICK HERE FOR MAP showing "Ring and Ride" area in PINK.
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Old Melbourne Jail - AMAZING HISTORY.

NED KELLY'S SPINE BROKEN MANY TIMES FROM FALLING OFF HORSES- LATERAL CURVE LUMBAR SPINE- MUST HAVE CAUSED A LOT OF PAIN

Ferntree Gully road and Eastlink Freeway intersection, at Scoresby or Wheelers Hill Melbourne

"Red Rings", red painted steel rings, and polished granite seat sculptures at Dandenong Creek and Eastlink trail, southern section walking and cycle trail junctiion.

Historic pioneer farm house Mount Waverley - Scoresby, built 1841 and trees planted 1874.

This old farm house was built in 1841 on part of a large tract of land including the modern suburbs of Melbourne: Wantirna, Bayswater, Ferntree Gully, Upwey, Selby, Emerald, Upper Beaconsfield, Lysterfield and Rowville, established for farming by Rev. James Clow in 1838... the first permanent settlemnt in the Port Phillip District had only begun in 1835.

In 1874 the huge Bunya Pines were planted at the front of the Chesterfield Homestead.

This farm and house was called Chesterfield Park by a new owner in 1859.

Some roughly hewn wood carvings of animals and people are around the farm too.

It is now a farm in suburban Melbourne! It is open to the public and demonstrates working sheep dogs, hand feeding lambs, and whip cracking, cows being milked and cream being made ...all this within about 100 meters of the Eastlink Toll road.

[sheep can be seen on the green paddock near the Tollway close to a factory, in the last photo]

Chateau Yering Yarra Valley Melbourne Australia

See the tall Chilean Wine Palm behind the Chateau Yering?

This was planted in 1867 by Baron von Mueller, now classified by the National Trust. This view of the back of the historic house with white walls is not the best at all... it is a Relais & Chateaux top rated place.

To its left here is a red brick building which houses Matt's Bar and cosy warm Cafe where we had lunch under $20 ea. above the Cellar door with its art gallery and top produce shop.

However The Sweetwater Cafe, in the old homestead looks like a good place for lunch under $40? if you are careful. It is open 7.30am – 5.00pm daily but requires a booking from those not staying in the Chateau. More about the historic section here www. relaischateaux.com/en/ search-book/hotel-restaurant/chateauyering -just close up the gaps.

Yering Station Yarra Valley winery mountain views

MARKET DAYS TOO - on the third Sunday of each month, the Yarra Valley Regional Farmers' Market takes place in the Yering Station heritage-listed barn.

Wine Bar Restaurant with magnificent panoramic views of the Yarra Valley and mountains.

Cairo Fitzroy flats Art Deco - central coutryard lawn and trees 1935 - 1936

The front doors all faced onto the central garden area and small yellow doors were for the deliveries of daily fresh milk.Also home deliveries were made by the butcher and baker and greengrocer and probabley there was a place for the daily mail.These were built just after the Great Depression.

Camberwell Architecture Melbourne Modernist or Art Deco 1930s day tour.

Architecture Melbourne Modernist or Art Deco 1930s day tour. Camberwell Christian Scientits' building. Second Church of Christ, Scientist 41 Cookson Street, Camberwell. Commonly called the Christian Scientists. ARchitects Bates Smart and McCutcheon built 1934-1939. Much of the original furnishings remain and even includes an elevator or lift that is operated by a system of water tanks. This building has 2 floors, the ground floor has a foyer with staircase and on the floor a large rug in the design of the original mosaics. Behind the foyer is a large room for Sunday school classes for children with specially designed "healthy" chairs still in use.

Art Deco - Clifton Hill, and Westgarth Theatre

Former Trumold Tyre Workshop, Clifton Hill built 1938, by Hudson and Wardrop who also built the adjacent United Kingdom Hotel. Visual Pollution- overhead wires!!!! The Westgarth Cinema, on the corner of Barry Street and High Street, Northcote was officially opened on 20 October 1921. The builder was 26 year old John Seccull of Barry Street. During the 1930s the upper two stories were added. There is no proof that it's architect was Walter Burley Griffin. "Architect: M.E.C. Yeomans" see http://www.cinematour.com/tour/au/155.html .

James Richmond percussion player in Berlin and Melbourne

James Richmond is currently playing percussion with the NAKED RAVEN contemporary music group in Berlin. He is also a great web site designer and has created this stunning internet site with his CV and audio samples and some more photographs like this one - as they perform around Europe.

My favourite garden at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show 2006

More Sculpture from Docklands Melbourne

This was by Lyn Edey and in an exhibition on the warf at new Docklands in 2004 - may be gone now Jan 2006? More public outdoor sculptures by women around Victoria at this web site here .