Pictures of Sydney

Sydney

No visit to Australia would be complete without a visit to Sydney. I was there a week and it just wasn't long enough. I stayed in a hotel down the road from Circular Quays. Walking distance from Opera House and the harbour Bridge.

'The Rocks' site of the Sydney's first non Aboriginal, now the point where the Harbour bridge crosses to the North Shore. Known as 'the rocks' simply because they built on a sandstone rocky out crop.

Originally the centre of colonial enterprise with warehouses and bond stores. With so many sailors, convicts, officers and whalers. The evitable inns and brothels soon followed. With the construction of the harbour bridge the place fell into disrepute.
Until 1970's when the area was regenerated and became the tourist attraction that it is today. Full of narrow cobbled streets and old colonial buildings, it's a great place to wander around and explore.

Too people from colder climates the wildlife is pretty exotic. What is usually only ever seen in zoos back here in Britain is common place in Sydney.