AFL Grand Final Parade

Australian Football League Grand Final Parade

Australia is a football crazy nation. I was just going around the city as usual on a friday afternoon and I notice the roads all around federation square are filled with people and traffic has been diverted. I had never seen so many people in Melbourne till this day.

Turns out the AFL final that was to happen that weekend always precedes with a parade of the players and mascots etc. There was hardly any place to stand for me and I had to go pretty far to get a decent view of what's going on. The entire of federation square had different stalls for things ranging from face painting to kids section for playing football.

This is a structure that was quite mindblowing. I had seen this under construction a couple of days earlier and it made no sense at that time. I could just see a couple of Australian footballs hanging. Now it all made sense.

There was media everywhere. There was even a helicopter covering the parade. It was really a big deal here. It was fun to watch an entire city coming to stop on a Friday afternoon.

Princes Walk

Princes Walk

Right behind Federation Square there is a Princes Walk. You can find joggers, and tourists here just enjoying the beauty of of the city by the Yarra river.

There is a building under renovation that's supposed to be a children's attraction.

As everywhere in Melbourne this place too has some art. This is certainly some aboriginal art.

And this is some modern art right beside the yarra river. 

It must be hell of a life to live around here and come for a jog by the river , watching ducklings learn to swim and beautiful trees and occasional kayaks on the river.