Author Archives: d4vid

Thoth

I’m no Brolga, but this is how I feel around many of my friends. (I think this bird is an Australian white ibis, much like the African sacred ibis which is associated with the bird-headed Egyptian god Thoth.)

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Central

Like in London, Sydney’s central park is Hyde Park. Jacarandas! In November! Love it!A statue of Captain Cook. I wonder if he looked this cocky when the Hawaiians killed him. (One theory is that they thought he was an incarnation … Continue reading

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Tombstones

Leaving the Royal Botanic Garden, I stumbled on this graveyard of marble. Spooky but cool.  (Later I learned that it’s an art piece titled “Memory is Creation Without End” by Kimio Tsuchiya consisting of bits of demolished buildings.)

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Government

This is the Government House where the Governor of New South Wales lives. But if Sydney has a Bruce Wayne I think he’d reside in a stately manor like this.

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Alien

Some of the flora here and in New Zealand looks positively extra-terrestrial.

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Chair

A view of Mrs Macquarie’s Chair as seen from the shore of the Royal Botanic Garden. (As if I didn’t have enough trouble keeping the names of Star Wars conceptual artist Ralph McQuarrie and writer/director Christopher McQuarrie straight, now I’ve … Continue reading

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Sails

The Sydney Opera House. Probably the most iconic building in the Southern Hemisphere.  The seem to alternate between calling the roof “sails” or “shells” (but from some angles I think of them as conquistador helmets.) The floor of the concert … Continue reading

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Arch

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, looking majestic as fuck.

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Dollarydoos

Hey, some trips you win, some trips you lose.  But for this one, I’m enjoying the exchange rate.

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Scorching

Um, this pizza is going to burn my mouth, isn’t it?

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Viticulture III

Picked up another of these with the label I like so much.

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Ubiquitous

And what did I find inside the Gateway shopping center?  Yet another Din Tai Fung!

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Gateway

I assumed this shopping center at Circular Quay was named after the Aboriginal mutant.

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Harbours

By Circular Quay and the Customs House there is a quill-shaped weathervane over a map of the early Australian settlements.

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Customs

Sydney’s old Customs House, ready for Christmas.

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