Australia photos > Sydney's Harbour
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Hungry Jack's is the Aussie version of Burger King. We ate there because , well, Jack was Hungry
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Walking around Darling Harbour, we see huge photographic murals advertising for the Wildlife Center
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We planned to go the following morning
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In Hype Park, right across from our hotel, we see the Sydney Tower. But we just kept calling it the 'Space Needle.'
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At the wildlife center, our New York boy poses with the world's largest cockroach. Ick
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Yikes! While we were meandering through the snake exhibit, this large wooden sculpture greets nearly all visitors with a startle as they turn the corner
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This is actually jus a photo that was on one of the educational boards, but it scared you, didn't it?
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One of Australia's most famous reptiles, the bearded lizard. This is, thank goodness, a statue
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A skink. Lizard-like, with a tail that looks very much like its head
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On the roof of the wildlife center - right there in the middle of Darling Harbour - is a koala exhibit.
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We were told that we were extremely lucky to find the koalas awake and alert, especially this young male koala
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Not a kangaroo, but a Wallaby, a smaller marsupial who also keep their young in pouch.
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Can you see her joey?
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Petting a lizard
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Koalas have two thumbs for climbing and grasping to trees. Wild, eh?
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In the butterfly sanctuary, the winged catepillars LOVE John! -
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G'day, mate
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With the bronze egrets at a fountain in Darling Harbour
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We took one of those hop-on/hop-off ferry boat tours around Sydney Harbor. It provided great views and some interesting (albeit touristy) information over the soundsystem
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Syndey Harbour combines the old and new in maritime presence
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Tour told us that this is one of Rupert Murdoch's homes. It's on the Sydney Harbour with amazing views, but it seems a little modest for a man worth $5.5 billion, don't you think?
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The ferry dropped us off at Watson's Bay, a sweet little beachy area of Sydney
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Where I found a restaurant for my friend Heather Doyle!
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The former ferry building in Syney, now a posh office building
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Wednesday night at the Sydney Opera House, where we saw Le Grand Cirque in the massive conert hall
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And so we come full cirlcle... Our time in Sydney began with a jaunt to the top of this iconic bridge, and here at the end of our stay in this friendly city, we gaze upon it at night, all dressed up in glitter
