Luminous

The Luminous Festival kicked off last night with a spectacular lights display at the Sydney Opera House. The sails will glow with continuously changing free-form colours and light each night for 3 weeks. The festival will then end with a fantastic Fire Water display as thousands of homemade lanterns are floated in the harbour, surrounding the reenactment of the sinking of the Three Bees.

The Three Bees was a convict ship that brought 210 male prisoners from England to the shores of Australia in 1814. Shortly after the ship docked and it's passengers disembarked, the ship caught fire in the Sydney Harbour. The fire wasn't able to be contained, so they cut it loose and it drifted into Campbells Cove and burned. Eventually the ships magazine caught and it went up with a mighty explosion.

On the 13th of June, the Three Bees will again sail into Campbells Cove and go up in flames. Should be a fun way to spend a winters evening down at the Harbour.