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These ones were expected. These are the 9 pm fireworks, a prelude to the main event for the benefit ...
These ones were expected. These are the 9 pm fireworks, a prelude to the main event for the benefit of young children who can't stay up any later.

There's no sound system in this park so there's no advance warning of when a firework display is going to begin. If you're watching the time, you would be anticipating the 9 pm and midnight displays, and in fact the midnight display would have a 9-second countdown projected on the bridge, but the other small displays took us completely by surprise. They were obviously well coordinated though because the colours of the fireworks from all of the barges were synchronised.


UTC Time: 10:01, Tuesday 31 December 2013
Local Time: 21:01, Tuesday 31 December 2013
Estimate of longitude: 151° 13' 17.72" E = 151.221590°
Estimate of latitude: 33° 51' 43.31" S = -33.862030°
Possible error on position estimate: 100 metres