More holiday snaps of Sydney.

Sydney is a large city built around a beautiful bay and is dominated by
The Sydney Harbour Bridge, The Opera House, & Centrepoint Tower,
as well as the vibrant city itself.

The mono-rail provides a quick and easy way to get around the CBD

Approaching Circular Quay.

El Alamein Fountain at Kings Cross

This is one of the many "cut back for racing" double decker buses that roam the
streets of Sydney filled with camera wielding tourists all intent on getting that
"once in a lifetime" shot.

Wazza shown here in the foreground of the Sydney Opera House.

The opera house as we approached it from Circular Quay.



It is one of those buildings you just never seem to have enough photos of.
(I must have at least another 20 !!!)

The Sydney CBD from a ferry to Manly. ("aboard a manly fairy")

Fort Denison located in Sydney Harbour near Circular Quay has served
many purposes, including suppling the sandstone used to construct
Circular Quay, the link below tells some of the history of this island.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Denison

Manly is located on a spit of land separating Sydney Harbour and the
Pacific Ocean, these beach goers are at the surf side of the spit.

Like much of Sydney, (in fact much of Australia) the folk at Manly take
full advantage of the climate and holiday atmosphere with outdoor dining
and shopping malls very popular.





Like the Opera House, who could ever take enough photos of this lovely
graceful old beauty. (I was talking about the bridge!!!!!!)

From the Southern approach

Opera House from the bridge.

Typical Tourist photos of Sydney.

Typical of the millions of photos taken around Sydney.

Darling Harbour, named after a former Governor, houses the Maritime Museum.

The lighthouse was moved here as a tourist attraction.

The Centrepoint Tower (centre of photo) from Darling Harbour.

Darling Harbour, taken from Centrepoint Tower.

From a lofty perch 250 meters high things take on a different view.

Looking north west over the harbour and towards the blue mountains.

The main stadium for the 2000 Olympic Games with the Sydney Cricket Ground
behind and to the right.
Please note the fleet of flying saucers included specially for you in this and the
previous photo (click to enbiggen).
I stand corrected on the stadium shown here and plead outside assistance,
(perhaps from the aliens from the flying saucers) you see I asked an attendant
(who happened to be Asian) where the Sydney Crickey Ground was, she pointed it
out along with the mis-information that it was just behind the main Olympic
stadium.
We had already driven around the Homebush area and seen the stadium
(which does in fact look a bit similar) and as I had absolutely no idea where I
was facing while in the tower I did the only thing that seemed plausible at
the time..... I believed her.... 1000 apologies for that (and any other
mis-information)

Looking down on the Queen Victoria Arcade.

City skyline from above.

The main arch of the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the centre (Opera House is just to the right.

The very relaxing Chinese Friendship Gardens at Darling Harbour.

AHH - Wazza in a pagoda.

Just soaking up the beauty and tranquility.

The paths lead you to something new and beautiful all the time.

Another pagoda framed with weeping Willow.
Lots more to come please come back again.

The Sydney trip... Gettin' there.

These photos are of places of interest on our trip down to Sydney.

We got all excited about approaching Mt. Warning which is the Eastern most
elevated point of Australia is the first place to see the sunrise, our
excitement was short lived when we realized it was in fact Mt. Barney.

During the course of this trip I encountered quite a few of my favourite people
Marilyn Monroe was the first..... Hi Marilyn!!!!!!!

Marilyn was located at an establishment called "Freddo's Famous Pies" as both
Wazza and myself lay claim to being pie connoisseurs we had t o sample their
wares, we were happy enough to go along with the "famous" although we had
never heard of them but felt they missed the "top 10" by a couple of places.
You will notice if you click to "enbiggen" the photo, they do offer a range of
somewhat unusual fillings though.

We spent our first night at Coffs Harbour which is a popular seaside holiday
destination, as you might guess by the "Big Banana" there are lots of bananas
grown in this area.

Port Macquarie is another very popular seaside city, we keep trying to improve
on nature (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) the groyne's built out into
the ocean here seem to work fine. (us 1 - Nature 1001)

Another one of my very favourite people, the late and great Slim Dusty,
Slim was at the top of our country music charts for 6 decades and
released 106 albums all with the same record label in that time....
Hi Slim!!!!!

This is about the area where I started to rave about how good the countryside
looked for any of you who traveled along with us at holtieshouse.
So much of Australia used to look like this in spring time, but for the past decade
of drought this has become a rarity.
The purple flower in the foreground is the very noxious weed "Patterson's Curse"
which is known as "Salvation Jane" in SA where a different climate keeps the
rampant growth under control and the plant becomes a good sheep fodder.

We are on the Sydney/Newcastle expressway so the Sydney adventure will start
with the next posting.
Perhaps as early as tomorrow?

Bloggers conventions 1 & 2

A meeting of bloggers June 30th 2007

Robyn, Kat's Cradle, Peter, Holtieshouse, Wazza, Wazza's Place

Robyn preparing to snap back.

Jeanette, Jens chronicles, Peter, Holtieshouse, Donna, Skippy's den.
July 6th 2007

Jan holding a fruit "Mocktail" at the Arkarra Tea Gardens, Hervey Bay.

Bloggers Galore

ANZAC Day 2007.

With ANZAC Day in two days time I thought I'd post these photos of
the Gympie Memorial Arcade built to honour all Australian Service
Personnel.

I have concentrated on the WW1 memorial tributes because of the
ANZAC Day link.

The pride we have for the bravery shown at Gallipolli knows no
boundaries

ANZACs were involved in many other fronts besides Gallipolli
and were recognised as some of the best fighting troops in
the world.

Through the gates located in the main street and leading to a
beautiful parkland behind the memorial it is a beautiful and
tranquil place.