Coburg Caravan park, north of Melbourne Weather is windy and cold. The Radio forecasts afternoon thundershowers. We've decided to spend the whole day in Melbourne.

We buy day tram passes. Breakfast on Swanston street. Brief rain as we eat.

The State Library of Victoria has been built in stages since 1854. The domed public reading room restoration has just been completed a month before our arrival. We enjoy the Lewis Morley exhibit of the National Portrait Gallery in the Keith Murdoch Gallery at the State Library of Victoria.

The baroque Melbourne City Baths were built in 1903 and remain a popular swimming spot.

Flinders Station

St Paul's

The Block Arcade is an intact 19^th century shopping arcade.

Federation Square Melbourne's civic and cultural center Completed just before our arrival

Visited the Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria in Federation Square. Contemporary aboriginal Australian art especailly intriguing. The NGV collection of Australian art comprises more than 20,000 works. Approximately 800 works are displayed in the new building at one time, rotated to show the full breadth and diversity of Australian art.

Lunch in one of the Square's restaurant cafes

King's Domain along the Yarra river Pass scullers and bicycle riding megaphoning trainer

Black Swan

Sparrow

Honeyeater

Willie Wagtail

Royal Botanic Gardens - Australia's finest and most expansive botanic gardens. There were few people in the gardens because of a drizzle and we arrived shortly before closing time.

Sunset from the Princes Bridge We've missed the last circuit of the tourist tram.

Night view of Melbourne from the Rialto Towers observation deck

We return to the Lounge restaurant on Swanston Street for dinner.