Category Archives: Australia

Walkabout

Posted on November 17, 2018 by d4vid

Well, my walkabout in Australia has come to an end. My drive from Sydney to Canberra to Melbourne to Uluru to Alice Springs totaled about 3700 kilometers (roughly 2300 miles) which is like driving from L.A. to Detroit or New … Continue reading →

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Fallout

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

As a Cold War kid, I was always taught that Australia would probably be the only place in the world safe from fallout!

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Mine

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid
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Penal

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

Visited the Museum of Sydney and learned about the First Fleet which founded the penal colony of Australia.The HMS Sirius was later wrecked on a reef off Norfolk Island.The first Governor of New South Wales, Admiral Arthur Phillip, sailed with … Continue reading →

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Cantonese

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

Ate at a hip, upscale Cantonese restaurant called Mr. Wong. Literally down a back alley, as all hip, upscale restaurants seem to be.

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Remembrance II

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

The ANZAC War Memorial honoring the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps soldiers who died in World War I was completed in 1934.These large medallions by artist Ian Marr echo Simonides of Ceos.An extension of the memorial was added for … Continue reading →

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Thoth

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

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

Posted on November 16, 2018 by d4vid

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

Posted on November 15, 2018 by d4vid

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

Posted on November 15, 2018 by d4vid

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

Posted on November 15, 2018 by d4vid

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

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Chair

Posted on November 15, 2018 by d4vid

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

Posted on November 15, 2018 by d4vid

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

Posted on November 15, 2018 by d4vid

The Sydney Harbour Bridge, looking majestic as fuck.

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Dollarydoos

Posted on November 14, 2018 by d4vid

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

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