Geelong, Australia
Created | Updated Jan 28, 2002
I am probably not the best person to write this....anyway, here goes. Geelong is a large regional city in the state of Victoria, Australia. It has a population of around 200,000 or so and some of them are even human...
Geelong is situated on the poluted Corio Bay (pronounced picturesque, not) that is part of the larger Port Philip Bay. It is surrounded by a Shell oil refinery, a Ford motor car factory and its associated industries, the Alcoa aluminium smelter (here in Australia we make aluminium, not aluminum), and Deaknin University, as well as two cement factories. The air is probably more polluted than the water, and on some days you can see it.
Nearby are some of the worlds best surfing beaches (so I am told) at Torquay and Jan Juc. The people here in Geelong are pleasant enough, as long as you don't interact with them. I believe the warning do not feed the animals could be an appropriate sign around here...
Geelong is a lovely town to make a bus tour to, as long as you don't stop here...
Geelong is home to an Australian rules football team, strangely enough bearing the city's name. It is also home so I have heard to the first roundabout in the southern hemisphere or the world I am not sure, and also the home of the refrigerator. And I'd like to think the speed hump...
And the cities slogan ? Geelong smart move. Seriously. Smart? Move away.
Geelong is situated on the poluted Corio Bay (pronounced picturesque, not) that is part of the larger Port Philip Bay. It is surrounded by a Shell oil refinery, a Ford motor car factory and its associated industries, the Alcoa aluminium smelter (here in Australia we make aluminium, not aluminum), and Deaknin University, as well as two cement factories. The air is probably more polluted than the water, and on some days you can see it.
Nearby are some of the worlds best surfing beaches (so I am told) at Torquay and Jan Juc. The people here in Geelong are pleasant enough, as long as you don't interact with them. I believe the warning do not feed the animals could be an appropriate sign around here...
Geelong is a lovely town to make a bus tour to, as long as you don't stop here...
Geelong is home to an Australian rules football team, strangely enough bearing the city's name. It is also home so I have heard to the first roundabout in the southern hemisphere or the world I am not sure, and also the home of the refrigerator. And I'd like to think the speed hump...
And the cities slogan ? Geelong smart move. Seriously. Smart? Move away.
