Slideshow Index: Sydney

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• We travel light. Everything we needed for two for five weeks in Australia.
• January 3rd waiting for our flight from LA to Sydney (14 hrs).
• Sydney on January 5th (lose a day). Getting 3G coverage from Vonage for the iPad (only $30).
• Street Performer at the Circular Quay (Sydney Harbor).
• First view of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
• Cruise ship in the Quay
• The Sydney Harbour Bridge (people walking on the arch top)
• First view of the Sydney Opera House
• The Sail Architecture
• The guide for the Opera House tour
• Corner view
• Part of our group
• Steel beam corner
• Corner beams
• A view across the harbour
• Outside of the main auditorium (not allowed to take pics inside)
• Everyone wore headphones for the wireless mike on the guide
• Interior view
• Jorn Utzon, the Opera House architect
• The Utzono room mural
• Harbour view
• The guide gave us a good history of the facility
• Outside of the main entrance
• The ANZAC War Memorial in Hyde Park near our hotel
• An Ibis bird. There are many now in Sydney parks
• The Indigenous Australian section of the Australian Museum
• A sample of Aborigine artwork
• A standout artwork
• The funnel-web spider, unique to the Sydney region, can send you to the hospital.
• Fountain in Hyde Park
• The Sydney Tower Eye
• The Queen Victoria Building loaded with 3 floors of shopping
• A king crab at the Sydney Aquarium
• This rock fish is another of the venomous fish in Australian waters
• A giant sea turtle
• One of the larger reef sharks
• One of many Great Barrier Reef displays
• Like Nemo, this fish can live in the Sea Anemone tenicles
• The Sydney train system got us to the Circular Quay for a trip by ferry to Manly Beach
• On the ferry to Manly Beach, northeast of downtown Sydney on the Pacific Ocean
• Nice view of downtown Sydney
• Entrance to the harbour at Manly Beach. Lots of rental kayaks.
• Taking a break at the wharf park
• Nice ferry building with plenty of shops inside
• This is one of Sydneys busiest beachs for families
• A Panoramic view of Manly Beach
• This would be a pleasant place to stay for a longer trip to Sydney
• Kathy gets some ocean at the beach
• Arnie cools off too
• Australian Beach Volleyball tournament at Manly
• Plenty of volleyball in this country
• This was our lunch time pub with open windows
• Typical ferry boat for Sydney Harbour
• On the way back from Manly
• A really nice view of the Sydney Opera House
• We walked fromt the Quay to MacQuaries Chair at the north end of the Royal Botanical Gardens
• Arnie at the chair between Farm Cove and Woolloomooloo Bay
• We get a nice view of the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge
• The Rocks area starts just west of the Circular Quay
• The entrance to the bridge is at the north end of The Rocks
• This is one of the oldest areas in Sydney
• Lots of restaurants in The Rocks including this busy German one
• Leaving our Travelodge Hotel on the south end of Hyde Park