After Ice 2010 Tasmania Trip

Sydney, Australia

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Sydney Opera House and Harbor Bridge.

Sydney, Australia

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Royal Botanic Gardens with Sydney's high rise buildings in background.

Sydney, Australia

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What are these creatures hanging from the branches in the Royal Botanic Gardens.

Sydney, Australia

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These are flying-foxes at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney? Flying-foxes, otherwise known as fruit bats. Fruit bats, like other bats, have very long, webbed fingers that serve as wings. Fruit bats also have very good senses of smell and sight (contrary to the myth that all bats are blind). These bats also have about a 5 foot wingspan, enough to scare anyone, but are very people friendly.

Sydney, Australia

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The Queen Mary 2 on the other side of Farm Cove in Sydney Harbor. What a ship.

Sydney, Australia

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Walkway and park becide Farm Cove with the city of Sydney in the background.

Sydney, Australia

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The city of Sydney from Mrs. Macquaries Pt.

Sydney, Australia

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Sydney Opera House. The distinctive roof comprises sets of interlocking vaulted ‘shells’ set upon a vast terraced platform and surrounded by terrace areas that function as pedestrian concourses.

Sydney, Australia

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Sydney Opera House. The two main halls are arranged side by side, with their long axes, slightly inclined from each other, generally running north-south. The auditoria face south, away from the harbour with the stages located between the audience and the city. The Forecourt is a vast open space from which people ascend the stairs to the podium. The Monumental Steps, which lead up from the Forecourt to the two main performance venues, are a great ceremonial stairway nearly 100 metres wide.

Sydney, Australia

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Sydney Opera House. The vaulted roof shells were designed by Utzon in collaboration with internationally renowned engineers Ove Arup & Partners with the final shape of the shells derived from the surface of a single imagined sphere. Each shell is composed of pre-cast rib segments radiating from a concrete pedestal and rising to a ridge beam. The shells are faced in glazed off-white tiles while the podium is clad in earth-toned, reconstituted granite panels. The glass walls are a special feature of the building, constructed according to the modified design by Utzon’s successor architect, Peter Hall

Sydney, Australia

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Looking at Sydney's Tower from Darling Habor.

Sydney, Australia

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HMB Endeavour at Sydney's Maritime Museum

Sydney, Australia

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Reflection of Sydney from the windows of the Maritime Museum.