Sat. Walk Tourist Style Sydney

The apartment where I'm staying is in a great spot for getting to the famous sites of Sydney.
I can do it all in one walk, from Elizabeth Bay to the Rocks, and watch a constantly changing cityscape unfold before my eyes.

wasn't long till I found the 100 steps

some keen city folk run up and down these... feeling pretty smug about my beaches back home

down I go, loving my new shoes all the way

from the top, the first glimpse of the Bridge

and the city casts its sky-reaching strange beauty everywhere

Woolloomooloo

the lines of city streets

the bridges and sneak-peeks of water

reclining treetrunk without a head

art interjects everywhere and reminds me of the more there is

  to being human

the old and the new

back towards Woolloo...etc ;)

The Art Gallery of N.S.W

reclining figure with a head

the entrance to the Botanical Gardens

winding paths through trees, flowers and statues

a man and nature co-creation

stunning!

Dianna, the goddess of purity

and the famous Wollemi Pine

so Australian, came from Italy,

'Boy With Thorn'

along the foreshore, the walk-path to the Opera House 

and there she blows!

on the other side of the small bay, the Sydney Harbour Bridge

with the ferry cutting its way through Circular Quay

it seemed like a nice spot to have a beer, so I did 

at Circular Quay

walking now towards the Rocks

I sat down on the stone wall to watch the sun setting and had an interesting conversation with a lady with   many travels under her belt, she had been to many places at unusual times...

just before major calamities,

including 9-11

and the Bali and London bombings, the tsunami in Aceh,

always left before it happened...

the mysteries of timing

make you think

on the way back, the pretty city night was settling in

and I caught the bus back home.

XX KK