Model Solar System, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

[crunchysteve]

I've lived in Melbourne nearly 16 years, now, the anniversary is June, and the Bay Trail is one of my frequent haunts, yet it was literally only this month that I discovered there's a model of the Solar System, spanning from St Kilda Marina, down to the docks of Port Melbourne, at a scale of 1 in 1 billion. Even cooler, right near the model of The Sun, is Proxima Centauri, because, by amazing coincidence, the 4.1 lightyears between our star and its nearest neighbour, scaled down by a factor of 1 billion, is roughly the circumference of the Earth! Bugger me. If you walked from Port Melbourne, to the North Pole, continued walking from there, down the other side of our planet, to the South Pole, and back to the St Kilda Marina, you'll find a model nearby the Sun model of Proxima Centauri, as well!!! (I won't tell anybody if you cheat, though, it'd be a big ask to make the long way compulsory.)

So, I've marked up the approximate location in a map on Ride With GPS...

I'll be doing the ride in the next few days to find each model, now I know they're there, and may update this RWGPS map with more specific details, meanwhile, here's the "official" pdf file for the walk, with each model's description and distances between each model. My own POIs in the RWGPS map are just a bit of cheeky fun.