Wrong Place Fireworks [?]

I was watching them from work, on a boat, floating on the lake and they looked okay, but I do have to agree that they would have been better on the lake.

I thought the Civic 9pm fireworks were OK (well my kids did) – really how much $$$ do we want to see go up in smoke when the Oz Day show is just a few weeks away too? And as Simbo said – it was good to watch them with music backing.
Only disappointment was that they didn’t turn the damn floodlights off in the Square so we could see without retina burn…

They have said they were ‘within broadcast regulations’. But anyone could have told them more kids would be watching on NYE than normal nights at midnight.

I thought so too Seepi, recorded the fireworks for the kids and had to edit right down to the very first and last firework almost with the dumb porno ads either side. Channel 10 are cretins – simple as that.

Was anyone else watching the Sydney fireworks on telly? The fireworks were pretty average (same as ever), but the late night ads were a bit raunchy for a family viewing night!

Not much rain, mainly storms accompanied by heavy downpour but not much in the way of steady showers.

I like it on the lake. More vantage points, more space to watch them… the hills around, too.
And I can see them from my place, 30 kms away!

er, has it been raining a lot, or was this just some storms?

Skyfire is at the lake every year, and it’s always spectacular. It’s more of a family event (around March, from memory).
I think it’s good to have a different event at New Year. Also probably easier to manage a larger ‘drunken yobbo’ contingent, from a security perspective, in Civic.

I was in Civic watching them (actually, in Civic Square), and there was a fair chunk of people, sober and drunk, a-watching, even with the rain going.

I don’t know whether it was the location, the rain or the speakers, but there was a very cool audio effect for some of the fireworks echoing around between the various buildings that made noises like laser blasts in 70’s sci-fi. Which, as a geek of a certain age, was quite rewarding.

They haven’t been at the lake for a number of years, but I think it’s a much better place.
I guess it’s harder to police though because it is more spread out and there’d still be stuff going on in town so the cops would be really stretched.