Tuesday, 8 November 2011

Australia - Sydney

We came into Sydney by train and walked across the Harbour Bridge, looking down onto the Opera House

There was an old fashioned sailing ship you could tour the harbour on


The CBD is quite impressive behind the harbour
In the old town, The Rocks, are many old-ish buildings

This area was where the settlers used to come to for registration

It's supposed to look like sails...

Some of the old houses are a bit ostentatious

Not all the boats are pleasure craft

The lighthouse stands alone in the middle of the river

We got a ticket that did us for trains and boats all day, so we took a ferry across the harbour at a fraction of the cost of the tourist boats

That's right, sails?!!?!

Paul, thinking he was still back in Asia

You could climb across the bridge's top for a price

Sails?!!?

After 9 years construction it opened in 1932 and is Sydney's most recognizable landmarks and carries trains, vehicles and pedestrians

Nutters, here at 134m

My favourite place in Sydney was the botanical gardens

With it's grand house

Creates a mighty impression

The sundial wasn't much use on this cloudy day

Paul, by a tree Queen Elizabeth II planted, gnarley!

And by another one, she didn't

I won that bet then

Well worth a visit to

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