the second biggest!
A friend told me he was spending his Friday night at the opening of the Midsumma festival in Federation Square. It’s a lot of fun and there’s always a great crowd. Apparently Midsumma gets the second largest Fed Square crowd across the year (the largest being the new year fireworks).
This snippet sent me on a complete thought tangent as I was reminded that, years ago, you could buy a postcard in Shepparton of the ‘Raymond J. West swimming pool’ which was described on the back of the card as “the second largest outdoor swimming pool in the southern hemisphere”.
I remember because I bought several of the cards to send to lucky friends pointing out the “second largest … in the southern hemisphere” descriptor.
For some reason it quite amused me.
Wonder if the pool still rates so high and if this year’s Fed Square crowd was just as big and just as fabulous?
Just how long has it been since you’ve been in to town Miss Marita? The Raymond J West no longer exists, instead there’s a big shed with a pool in it. I think they call it AquaMoves. A white elephant of International Village proportions I am lead to believe.
January 24th, 2005 at 7:53 amIt clearly has been a long time.
January 24th, 2005 at 9:59 am