I recently had the good fortune to stay overnight in a suburb called Frankston. While not that distant from where I live, it is far enough away to be out of the way. I haven’t walked the streets of this shopping precinct in Frankston for more years than I can remember. I in fact I may have never walked this part of Frankston. But I spent an hour or two wandering the CBD of this bayside suburb.
To say I was pleasantly surprised would be putting it mildly. I only have vague recollections of the shopping centre. It is now serviced by all the major food chains and there was lot s of pedestrian friendly “open” space.
I have to admit it’s rare that I feel a tourist in Melbourne, but here I was in Frankston feeling completely foreign; like the proverbial ‘fish out of water’. Nonetheless I could not help myself and wander about and grab a few images that caught my eye. As is often the case I found the small laneways and backstreets the most compelling.
Here’s a series of pictures I thought looked interesting.
When these pictures make it to flickr, they will be titled with their exact time, and include geotag coordinates.
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The drug scene around the Frankston railway station has been cleaned up. Often there is a heavy police presence there. There are still traces of the old Frankston if you walk around some of the backstreets.
Yes I could imagine thing would get hairy in parts of Frankston, especially around the intersection with the 4 pubs, on a Friday and Saturday night.