Arrived in Sydney after 200km trip from Oberon.  Would have been OK except no lights on van.  Spent first day finding a tow bar fitter who check out system – like your TV aerial, they said we had to have new electrics fitted, which they did.  Unfortunately didn’t work, so we had to go back and, despite them swearing that they had checked the system thoroughly, wire pulled out of fitting just like that – snap fingers.  Anyway, eventually sorted and we went into Sydney to look at Opera House.

Sydney was settled around a freshwater stream and the area occupied by the botanical gardens and The Rocks are oldest parts.  Here’s Paul with Sydney opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge in the backgrounds.

You can walk over the top of the bridge – Paul is looking forward to doing this…. You can’t see it in this picture but you wear a harness (obviously) with a girdle that has a wire strop that feeds onto a safety wire all along the route.

Sydney skyline, Circular Quay (where all the ferries leave from) in centre picture, you can just about make out a couple of ferries.  The area to the right and inland is the Rocks.

One of the ferries, these go up the Parramatta River and out to Manly and Watson (either side of the entrance to Sydney Harbour).

The Opera House

Paul and those tiles..

The Contemporary Art Museum had this huge polished lens outside.  Very clever.  You can see Rhu taking  a picture of herself.

Underside of Sydney Harbour Bridge

Paul checking the bolts for later…

Fishing has got to be the national pastime.