Festival of Sails
The Australia Day Weekend on Geelong’s waterfront is a one of the highlights of the Geelong event calendar with the RGYC’s Festival of Sails. This event has a plenty of action on Corio Bay and a huge shoreline program with music, markets, entertainment and fun for all ages.
The first day of the huge Australia Day weekend’s Festival of Sail on Geelong’s waterfront and Corio Bay has got off to a great start with glorious sunshine.
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Thousands of families flocked to the grassy slopes of Rippleside under spectacular sunshine to celebrate Australia Day at one of the many Australia Day events in the Geelong region.
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Get out the thongs, sunscreen and the BBQ or drag the family along to one of the many fantastic events across our region this weekend.
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After two hugely successful Travel and Cruise Expo’s in 2011, Geelong Travel is holding another of these huge events on Sunday the 29th of January.
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The weekend of January 7th and 8th 2012 saw the Vintage Rally return to the Geelong Showgrounds in East Geelong. The show featured an amazing array of vintage machinery including tractors, trucks, farm equipment cars and lots of incredible steam driven machinery.
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The Bellarine’s premier resort town Ocean Grove once again hosted the annual Tranquilly Fair on the 7th of January 2012. This fair is a community event which is organised by a dedicated association of people who work tirelessly to raise funds to maintain, support and improve the Ocean Grove Park.
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Ford Australia’s 75th Anniversary Party
With new investment announced which will take it into its ninth decade of manufacturing in Geelong in what is a very uncertain climate, we take a look back at one of our city’s most valued icons, Ford as it celebrated its 75th Anniversary with over 100,000 people on our waterfront back in April of 2000.
Myths, Legends & Tales of the Geelong Region
The Geelong and surrounding region has a rich heritage of myths, legends and tales, some true, some not so true and many well who knows?
Swan Bay
Swan Bay is one of the region’s favourite spots for recreation. Bird watching is a favourite past time in the area as are some water based activities including scuba diving, kayaking and boating.
Queenscliff Maritime Museum
The Queenscliff Maritime Museum offers an interesting and entertaining insight into all things marine with some very interesting displays covering all aspects of boating including fishing, naval, commercial shipping, sailing and of course the famous Queenscliff Sea Pilots.
Davis Cup in Geelong
Geelong is celebrating with the news it will be one of the venues for one of tennis’s greatest tournaments; The Davis cup. The Geelong Lawn Tennis Club on the banks of the Barwon River in Belmont will be hosting the tie between Australia and China
