I decided to walk over the Harbour Bridge - which pedestrians, bicyclers, cars and trains travel each day from North Sydney into the city and, coincidentally, celebrated its 80 year anniversary today. Similar to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, the Harbour Bridge is considered a landmark in Australia. The GG is 74 years old and I'm thinking that the designers should have taken note from Australia - check out the very safe pedestrian side of the bridge. Like.
The view of Sydney and the harbour from the bridge is pretty cool.
I walked to the botanical gardens, which is a big park on the harbour by the Opera House with the 'Governor's House' and flower garden in the center. Here are some pretty flowers and the house:
The trees in the park were pretty awesome, they looked very tropical like trees I've seen in Hawaii and the Caribbean. I may have taken a lot of photos of these :)
Hidden in a corner, I found this fantastic little statue. Kind of reminds me of Mr. Tumnus from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe.
After walking around the gardens and Opera House a bit more, I met Nancy and her friend Christina (aka my new friend) for a free harbour cruise that they so genius-ly found. The idea of the cruise is to make money from passengers buying an all you can drink wrist band for $40, but we just got a free ride, some free beers from nice Germans and free snaggers (sausages) that the boat gave out. They were DELICIOUS! I forgot to mention the free meat pies I had last Thursday. Also delicious.
Not sure what I'm up to this week, but hope to get out to Manly next weekend. Stay tuned!
Those look like the crazy trees in Hawaii!!!....you snagged a snagger!
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