Sunday, March 14, 2010

Canberra Balloon Spectacular


On Saturday Audrey and I took a trip to Canberra's annual balloon festival. We got there a bit late (6.50am) and a fair number of the balloons take off at 6.30am, nevertheless we saw quite a number getting airborn.

Ballooning seems a nice (if eccentric hobby) and there were the usual ballooning folk together with hoards of Canberrans, a band (which Audrey danced to) and the obligitory sausage-sizzle.

I'm not sure who funds the festival (it runs for a week). There had been relatively strong winds all week, so I'm pretty sure the balloons only went up a couple of times (Thursday and Saturday). I do wonder whether they have to maintain the festival as practically every bit of literature encouraging people to live and work in Canberra contains a shot of 3 or 4 balloons flying over Lake Burley Griffin.

1 comment:

Bob Lethaby's Blog said...

Superb photo's Trevor,a bit like the Balloons over Basingstoke festival we have each May!!!! Perhaps not.