ESSENTIALLY MELBOURNE
Melbourne Southbank ’15\\ With the ushering in of September, we’ve been repeatedly pleasantly surprised by how beautiful the Melbourne sky is during sunset – hence the many highway-driving sunset insta pics recurring on my feed. Or maybe us being in extreme awe of the sky just shows how extraordinarily dreary this year’s Melbourne winter was. Nevertheless, Jaz and I booked in a date in each other’s calendars of an afternoon in search of aesthetically pleasing sunsets in the CBD. Thinking of the perfect spot for some skyline filming and photography was harder than we thought – Melbourne isn’t exactly New York. After racking our brains, I remembered reading and from an online article I only faintly recall, of a place above Hamer Hall that had a gorgeous view of Melbourne. So we took a gamble and I’d say it paid off 3/4 of the way. We didn’t manage to catch any sunset shots – turns out the CBD’s skyscrapers completely blocked out our westerly view – but we did realise how amazing The Place Above …