The Esplanade Vaults - St Kilda Festival

Esplanade Vaults open today between 10am and 6pm at the St Kilda festival.
the vaults are located on the Lower Esplanade acroos from the St Kilda sea baths.

The vaults housed 10 shops which were closed and bricked up in the 1970's.

St Kilda Festival 2013

St Kilda Festival 2013 about to kick off, a bit chilly this morning with a cold wind coming in from the Bay.

Janoskians cause RIOT at Luna Park

Thousands of teenage girls go crazy for local You Tube pranksters the Janoskians.
Cops arrived and closed down the meet and greet session.

Janoskians

Asia-Pacific Melbourne Ironman 2012 - St Kilda Finish line

Australian triathlon legend Craig Alexander heading to the finish line at St Kilda Beach to win the 2012 Melbourne Asia-Pacific Ironman. 

Melbourne 2012 Ironman winner Caroline Steffen with partner Dave Dellow on the finish line at St Kilda Sea Baths, Dave came in 5th in the Mens race. 

Sunshine Coast Based Swiss Caroline Steffens celebrating her Melbourne Ironman win. her time of 8.34.51 is the second fastest ever Ironman time. I wonder if her new Cloudracer ON shoes helped her to this time.

Womens Ironman winner Caroline Steffen at the St Kilda finish line.

Caroline Steffen and Dave Dellow Melbourne Ironman.

Womens Ironman 2nd place Rachel Joyce.

Rachel Joyce Melbourne Ironman.

Ironman contestants Caroline Steffen and Rachel Joyce.

St Kilda Beach - Too Polluted for Swimming

St Kilda Beach has been rated "unacceptable" for swimming today and tomorrow because of pollution.
This is due to Elevated bacterial levels after recent heavy rain.

Read more: The Age Newspaper

Spandy Andy dancing on St Kilda Beach

Australia day aftermath St Kilda Beach!

St Kilda Beach the morning after Australia Day 2012. 

South Beach Reserve was left trashed by Australia Day revellers.

St Kilda Beach New Years Day 2009

The Beach was pretty clean this morning, nothing like the mess after NYE 2007. Alcohol bans and colder weather probably helped.

Palace Fire - St Kilda Beach

Recently closed rock venue and nightclub (Twister) in St Kilda burns to the ground in a deliberately and pretty convenient lit fire on July 11th 2007.
These pictures were taken just after the Blaze began and before the Fire engines arrived. The 3rd picture down shows a man in black running away from the scene - could this be the Arsonist?