The annual week long Canberra Balloon Spectacular started Saturday morning, the start of the Canberra Day long weekend (yes it's our city's 105th birthday weekend). We've never been to the launch of the Spectacular before (it's at sunrise!!), but this year we had no excuse as it's only a 20 minute walk from our place.....
We quickly saw how our early start was going to be totally worth it. I've never seen our National Carillon as a gold ingot before.........
The entry to the Night Noodle Markets looked quite different at sunrise ......
Great excitement and billowing flames as the balloons are inflated ......
and lift off .......
Nothing but blue skies all around (thank you Ella F.)
Unfortunately the prevailing breeze (very slight) took all the balloons away from our view of the lake towards Yarralumla - too quickly - sigh!
It's been a fun Canberra birthday weekend for us with Enlighten, hot air balloons, the French Film Festival Program and last night's Symphony in the Park event (Canberra Symphony Orchestra accompanied by a Queen tribute band doing all the big Freddie Mercury numbers in a free concert at Stage 88 in Commonwealth Park) all walking distance for us (woohoo).
We quickly saw how our early start was going to be totally worth it. I've never seen our National Carillon as a gold ingot before.........
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