Australia 2010 – Page 6 – Not Your Average Engineer

June 19, 2010July 1, 2020

ANZAC Bridge and around

Underneath a highway there are these odd light tree sculptures. At night they turn on and glow a pleasant yellow. It takes what would otherwise be a dingy place that one wouldn’t want to linger in to a place where you wish to stay and look at the artwork.

In Pyrmont. The old buildings are beautiful. The whole area is filled with interesting shops, trendy restaurants, and local corner pubs.

A park and a pier in Pyrmont.

The ANZAC Bridge.

Some big old rusted steel spheres in a riverfront park. Perhaps these were buoys or mooring points? Each is about 15 feet in diameter.

A military ship tied up on a forlorn pier.

More balls.

Looking at the ANZAC Bridge from an old quarry where most of the stone used to build Sydney came from.

A park along the old quarry cut.

A tree is growing down the rock face.

The underside of the ANZAC bridge.

The old bridge that the ANZAC Bridge replaced.

June 14, 2010July 1, 2020

Around Downtown Sydney

The analogue of the Space Needle in Sydney.

St Mary’s Cathedral.

A police checkpoint with a bunch of police motorcycles. They were big Yamaha sport touring bikes. Looked like really great machines in top shape.

An odd statue that is part of a festival going on in Sydney.

Down at Circular Quay.

The statue is luring the woman in!

An old house to the west of Sydney Harbor Bridge.

The bridge looming large in the background.

A neighborhood pub saluting the Hero of Waterloo.

A church for soldiers.

Amongst the skyscrapers.

Chimneys of old and the bridge.

A street performer really drew a crowd.

The Circular Quay.

A bunch of motorcycles parked together.

The Royal Automobile Club. I doubt it has much to do with automobiles anymore.

The old water police station.

Sydney has a monorail. I wonder if Seattle knows about this.

Town Hall.

The El Camino never died in Australia and remains quite popular.

June 14, 2010June 16, 2021

The Sydney Observatory

With the Sydney Harbor Bridge looming to the north, I walked up the hill from the bridge ramparts to the Sydney Observatory.

A memorial to World War I and all of the ANZAC forces who died in various battles.

A memorial to the soldiers from New South Wales who served in the South African War otherwise known as the Second Boer War.

The observatory. It was used primarily for time-keeping to allow accurate setting of ship chronometers. The buildings to the left were also used as the signal houses to send messages from one side of the harbor to the other via flags.

looking to the west at some of the commercial shipping areas.

One of the original telescope mounts.

One of the original telescopes. The whole setup was maybe only 10-15 feet tall.

Looking back north at the bridge.