Sydney
Saturday, March 17th
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While in Sydney I will be staying at the Sheraton that is located downtown.
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Well I'm finally on the last stop of my journey. I landed in Sydney from Brisbane late yesterday afternoon. I went for dinner last night on the harbour. It was very beautiful to see the the bridge and the Opera House lighted up. Also the ferries going back and forth were very nice to see. I cannot describe how incredible it was to be sitting on the harbour having dinner surrounded by these incredible landmarks. We have all seen pictures of these things but sitting there is very humbling. I hope one day you all can make this trip.
Opera House
Of all the requests from all the students at LCC the best was from Will Lavin. He wanted to see a picture of ME in front of the Opera House. Here you go Will!The Opera House was much more impressive than I ever thought it would be. I went down last night and had dinner on the water in view of the Opera House while lighted up. That is when it is the most impressive.
Opera House
Here is a view of the Opera House as you walk up to it from the front. It is much different than the side or rear view that you usually see. The roof is made from tiles, much like floor tiles. Up close it looks much different than the far away view. There are maybe a hundred steps going up to the entrance.As you can see from the first picture it was very overcast. By the time I walked around to this side all the clouds disappeared.
From Ferry, Bridge and Opera House
And of course the Harbour Bridge. Again the same as the Opera House. This thing is so much more impressive in person than from all the pictures. It is so much larger than I imagined it to be.The bridge was built in 1932. That is very impressive for the tools and equipment they had at that time.
Habour Bridge
You can see people taking the tour and walking over the top of the bridge (click on the picture to get big version). It is late Saturday now, if I get time before my flight tomorrow I am going to try to do the tour. It is very windy on the top so they have belts and cables like mountain climbers. So if I get there I will definitely take a picture from the top.
Ferry Terminal at Circular Key
Here is a picture looking back from the harbour towards downtown Sydney. You can see the ferry terminal. There are about 8 docks for ferries that run all the time taking people around Sydney Harbour. We went there and got a ferry that carried us around the harbour. That was a great view.From where this picture was taken I had to walk all the way around this are to get to the front of the Opera House.
Aboriginal Native
There were lots of things going on around the harbour. There were many people performing for money. There were mimes, jugglers, and this Aboriginal Native. He was playing the digery-do mate. All the performers were doing it for the money that the crowd gave them. What a way to earn a living.
Horse Carriage in downtown Sydney at The Rocks
The area next to the harbour is called The Rocks. That is because the origional coast-line was very rocky. It was very hard for the origional settlers to build there at all. Now it is full of shops and resturants. Here on the street the horse drawn carraige was giving rides.
Captian Cook
(1728-79), British explorer and navigator, famous for his three great voyages of exploration in the South Pacific Ocean and the North American coastal waters.Cook, popularly called Capt. Cook, was born in Marton, England, the son of a farm laborer. After spending his early years as an apprentice with a firm of shipowners, he enlisted in the British navy in 1755. Within four years he had become a master, and he spent the years 1756 to 1767 charting the North Atlantic coastal waters off Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and the Saint Lawrence River below Quebec. In 1768, as lieutenant in command of the Endeavour, he undertook his first great voyage to the South Pacific, on which he safely carried a group of British astronomers to the recently discovered island of Tahiti to observe the transit of the planet Venus across the sun in June 1769. He then proceeded to New Zealand, taking formal possession of parts of both main islands and accurately charting 3860 km (2400 mi) of coastline for the first time. In 1770 he discovered the eastern coast of Australia, which he charted and claimed for Great Britain under the name of New South Wales.
This Statue is located in Hyde Park near downtown Sydney.
Statue built in 1932 for WWI Veterans
This Statue is located in Hyde Park near downtown Sydney. It was built in 1932 as a tribute to the Australians who died in World War I.
