I had seen a post on FB announcing that 4 hot air balloons were planning to land in Fawkner Park on the morning of 14 May and some were already down when we walked out there around 0800 hours.
As I hade hoped, one of them was the bobble hat balloon. It is promoting
the Big Freeze event focussed on the G later in the season.
The pilot lit up the burner to amuse the school kids.
The kids (obfuscated to stuff up AI face capture) went to help collapse the balloon.
And to peer inside when they had got it down
Later in the day we went to follow up on some places in Windsor, after advice from one of the concierges at 505 (who lives nearby). Here is our route (excluding the tram ride back from ALDI.
The structure of the rest of this post is landmarks first followed by street art (in the order we found it in both cases). We found this, which we hadn't noticed before as we walked down St Kilda Rd.
Older cottages with new stuff at the back.
I have never heard of Western Thrace. Obviously a repurposed factory. According to
their website they began to migrate in 1969 because Western Thrace is part of Greece (check the history tab in
this page!
The Melbourne Bowls Club was founded in 1864 but not I suspect with this building.
A view of the platform at Windsor Station, with the buildings on Chapel St in the background.
This is the main station building, well above the platform level. The likeness to a steam train is clear.
Our concierge advises that the structure below is a reference to beacons originally erected at each end of Chapel St when electricity was laid on along the street. I responded that it reminds me of the design of the navigation beacons in Port Melbourne.
We took ourselves along Peel St to check out the Windsor Castle Hotel. It is not named after King Chuck's residence but a sailing clipper of the same name. The current manager - standing in the doorway - explained that the pub wasn't opened at that time but welcomed us inside to look round.
Here is a close up of the elephants on the roof!
This is the front bar. It is a fascinating place and is about to be renovated somewhat, although the over look and feel will be maintained. In one of the back rooms is a case of taxidermied native birds which was most interesting.
Heading back to the station, past the current Telstra building was the original telegraph office (click on the image to read the words in the windows).
Back to the old buildings in Chapel St.
We now go back to Punt Road for the first bit of Art.
This was on Union St, at the entrance to a park (which we didn't explore).
Across Union St. I can't work out the words.
This walkway leads along the railway to the North side of the Station.
A light controller on Chapel St.
The next few images are all from Artists' Lane.
As well as giving a panorama of the Lane this shows a bloke in the distance ....
... who is carrying a flower pot! He was looking for #32 Artists Lane but couldn't read any street numbers. After consulting Google Maps it seemed access was from Chapel St.
As well as the visuals there was some interesting poetry.
Our final objective was to track down a Banksy rat near the Yellowbird Cafe. We found patches of art in nearby alleys, but no rat.
Here is the sign for Yellowbird. We now have better directions for the Banksy and will check it out later,
A light controller on Chapel St.
The next few images are all from Artists' Lane. 
As well as giving a panorama of the Lane this shows a bloke in the distance ....
... who is carrying a flower pot! He was looking for #32 Artists Lane but couldn't read any street numbers. After consulting Google Maps it seemed access was from Chapel St.
As well as the visuals there was some interesting poetry.
Our final objective was to track down a Banksy rat near the Yellowbird Cafe. We found patches of art in nearby alleys, but no rat.
Here is the sign for Yellowbird. We now have better directions for the Banksy and will check it out later,
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