Sydney, Part 2

So here's the follow-up to Part 1 on the trip to Sydney. As you can tell from the pictures, we had fantastic weather. Roughly 75 every day, with no clouds until the last day. Perfect. Sydney apparently features many great sights and activities. A few that I can attest to include the nice restaurants in Wooloomaroo (sp?), a couple of great bars in Newtown, the aquarium (with its very cool shark exhibit and much sea life I'd never seen before), and the beach walk, which runs from Coogee Beach to Bondi Beach.

The beach walk is billed as about 2 hours, but unless you take a lot of breaks or go slowly, that's on the long side. There are some pretty astounding views, and it's a very pleasant, accessible walk. Also a great place to watch some pretty spectacular surfing (although the waves were unusually high that week--Bondi Beach was closed the next day, in fact). The first three pics here are from various points along the way. You'll also notice what has to be the world's greatest real estate for a cemetary in the second and third pictures.

I've also decided to include two artistically questionable photos of Sydney at night. I've posted the one with just the Opera House simply because it looks freakish--as if it's not the Opera House, but the ghost of the Opera House. The other gives you a better idea of its setting. Both were taken from the glamourous train platform.

Don't forget to click on the pictures for larger images!

Again, Sydney is a great city, which I highly recommend visiting.