We had a good morning and got out to a beautiful day. We were able to walk through parks all the way to Sydney harbor and the famous Opera House. The first park was Hyde Park with a beautiful ANZAC memorial in the center and St Mary's Cathedral to the side. The trees in the park were huge and the deep shade beneath them was luxurious. We continued to walk along the Domain Park and past the Art Gallery. It was too nice a day for going inside a museum. This took us right to the gates of the Botanical Gardens. We were on a mission to get to the fast ferry to Manly so we strolled through the gardens but did not see everything as they span 74 acres of land. We did pass by the palm grove, a fancy rainbow bee and beds upon beds of flowers. The gardens end at the harbor and as we reached this point we could see the Opera House in the distance. The tide was still high and occasionally water would surge up and on the walkway. As we got closer we could see that folks were climbing the Harbor Bridge. It was quite windy and it must have been even windier up on top of the bridge. No thank you on that climb.
The ANZAC a very elaborate and quite beautiful
ANZAC stands for Australia and New Zealand Army Corps
Nice cool shade
St Mary's off in the distance
James Cook trying to see if it is raining
Sydney Tower Eye
St. Mary's in all its glory
A grand structure
Back in 1884 even the mayor could get a memorial in Sydney
The gates to the Botanical Gardens, 1874!
A huge and fantastic tree
Gnarly bark
The rainbow Bee
If 8 flowers are nice
8000 flowers are nicer
A fun evergreen
Daisy daisy...
A maned Duck in all his fancy colors
These trees were giants
We have reached the harbor and some Navy ships are here to protect us
The Opera House and the Harbor Bridge behind it
Getting closer
If you look close you can see the people climbing. They will be 440 feet above the water at the top
Inching their way up. It takes 1400 steps to do this excursion
It was super windy to boot!
The harbor was a brilliant blue color
The Australian flag and the Aboriginal flag
We are the furthest point from our apartment. We have to backtrack a bit to get to the ferry terminal
