New Year Fireworks

 As occurs in most places globally, New Year in Armidale is celebrated with a great fireworks display. The translation from 2022 to 2023 was no exception. A huge number of our town's 25,000 residents drove down to the Dumaresq Creek flood-plain in the middle of our city, parked their cars (with some difficulty) and walked to the site of the display due to start at 9 pm. The event started precisely on time and lasted maybe 15 to 20 minutes. It attracted great applause from the assembled masses and these pictures reveal what we saw.

Here's the Rologas Field which hosted the display. Of course, it's mid-summer in the southern hemisphere. So there was a remnant of daylight at 9 pm, bbut please remember that we're only c. 30 degrees south of the equator so we don't get the huge extent of summer daylight received in, say, the UK at 50 degrees north.

Another visitor to the display was a waxing moon!

The pictures below mainly show the trajectories of the display but, alas, omit its often brilliant colours  right across the spectrum. 

There was great applause at the end and the heaps of little kids standing in front of me were exstatic. They couldn't stop jumping up and down! I cannot recall going to similar displays at their age. However, we always had a firework display in our back garden to celebrate Guy Fawke's Night each 5th November. There we let off all the fireworks ourselves rather than use machinery!

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