Royal Australian Navy Centenary Celebrations on Sydney Harbour

[Neilster]

There's been stuff happening for a few days to celebrate the 100 years since our first navy ships arrived from Britain but tonight there's a big celebration. I'm watching it now.

It's pretty spectacular. Amazing fireworks and from the ships as well. Searchlights everywhere. They're projecting the history on the Opera House and Harbour Bridge pylons and they've done an excellent job with lots of WW1 photos and headlines, black and white globes with advancing Japanese, bleep-bleep-bleepidty-bleep morse code sounds, a simulated attack on the Harbour bridge, Vietnamese War era music etc etc. Then they've done a remembrance thing and zillions more fireworks.

Worth checking out on the news.

Cheers, Neilster

[warspite1]

ORIGINAL: Neilster

There's been stuff happening for a few days to celebrate the 100 years since our first navy ships arrived from Britain but tonight there's a big celebration. I'm watching it now.

It's pretty spectacular. Amazing fireworks and from the ships as well. Searchlights everywhere. They're projecting the history on the Opera House and Harbour Bridge pylons and they've done an excellent job with lots of WW1 photos and headlines, black and white globes with advancing Japanese, bleep-bleep-bleepidty-bleep morse code sounds, a simulated attack on the Harbour bridge, Vietnamese War era music etc etc. Then they've done a remembrance thing and zillions more fireworks.

Worth checking out on the news.

Cheers, Neilster

warspite1

Here's to the Royal Australian Navy and their sterling work - particularly (but not limited to) during WWII [&o][&o][&o][&o]

[Neilster]

This was the pride of our small fleet in 1913. The battlecruiser HMAS Australia. The aircraft is a Sopwith Strutter.

Cheers, Neilster

[JamesM]

Good choice of music for the fire works. I do like Holst "The Planets", particularly the Mars and Jupiter movements.