Home > Pictorial Guide > Inner Melbourne City on the edge of the Yarra By day Many overseas readers of Festivale visit for the photographs, so here are some of the photographs to be found on our site featuring Melbourne's Yarra River in Victoria, Australia. Melbourne from the Westgate Bridge Photograph (c) Ali Kayn 1997

See also: Guidebook entry City on the Edge of the Yarra Yarra Yarra by Day Yarra by Night Bolte Bridge Related Map

Large vessels cannot travel far down the Melbourne River. The Westgate bridge is the last bridge that permits tall ships. Pleasure crafts of many kinds make their way under the low bridges in the inner city area. They transport site-seers on trips of various lengths.

From Southgate looking across towards Flinders Street Station, Melbourne's major railway station.Photograph (c) Ali Kayn 1996

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Across St Kilda road from Southgate and the Southbank precinct, the Alexandra Gardens boat sheds Photograph (c) Ali Kayn 1996

From Alexandra Gardens across the Yarra River towards Batman Avenue. Flinders St station is to the left across the river.

Best known of the Melbourne river traffic are the sculling teams, and during the Moomba festival, the water skiers' speedboats. This quiet stretch with its historic club houses is filled with onlookers when the water events are run.

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