The Vivid light show is on again in Sydney. This year it has spread out from the centre of Sydney to some of the suburbs. We + Viv and Chris decided to have a look at the installations in Chatswood. I headed out by train, met up with Jan (who had been working) at Town Hall station, then on to Chatswood to meet V+C.
I think it was my first time across the Harbour Bridge by train – at least the first I can remember (but my memory isn’t great).
At Chatswood we saw the first of the installations as we came out of the station. A couple of big pterodactyls were hanging from the roof of the shopping arcade. These were not your average run-of-the-mill pterodactyls, they were fully blinged up with lots of coloured lights. A couple of exercise machines on the ground floor appeared to be animating them, making them climb and dive and sort of flap their wings.
Chris took a bit of video.
We walked across a bridge which had a rope and wood plank bridge projected on it. This was good when the wooden planks broke and threatened to tip you into the abyss below! Jan had fun with it, and the many little kids thought it was brilliant.
Outside there were more projections in the pedestrian precinct. One was a jungle complete with flowing river, fish, lizards and dinosaurs. There were also, to Viv’s dismay, some very realistic-looking snakes slithering among the trees. Again, lots of little kids were having a terrific time stamping on all the creatures underfoot.
More dinosaur type projections lit up the sides of buildings and there were some impressive dinosaur eggs hatching out. There were rain showers coming through, but we managed to dodge the worst of them. We had a splendid meal at a Shanghainese restaurant, another little wander, then headed home on the train, tired but happy.
We’ll have a look at Vivid in the city later.
