The Australian Ibis was EVERYWHERE in all the parks. This one was taking a branch up to the nest (next photo).
Eyes On Ibis
Category: Travels
Royal Botanic Garden of Sydney
The gardens comprise 30 hectares adjacent to Sydney Harbour. They are open and free and exquisitely maintained. This was a green house with a wrap around living mosaic wall and so many types of orchids and succulents. (These were all taken with my pixel phone.)
Room with a view!
We had a great view from our room of the opera house WHEN a cruise ship was not docked (which was hardly ever!)
Our view with said ship!
Just to the right of the Opera House is the Royal Botanical Gardens. You can see the huge rock wall that they had to build around. More on the amazing gardens later this week.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Sydney Harbour Bridge, steel-arch bridge across Sydney Harbour (Port Jackson), Australia. The bridge, opened in 1932. Its in the Rocks District of Sydney. All of the old architecture is made of of carved stone including this bridge. The surrounding area has many areas and walls of rock that they had to build around.
You can walk up the top of this bridge look close at the top and you’ll see tiny people. The photo below shows a close up.
Welcome Down Under!
I’ve been in Australia and New Zealand for the last month. So I managed to avoid the snow/ice storm that hit Sequim!
So travel vicariously with me and I hope you enjoy the next few weeks of photos.
The opera house is stunning in person–the photos just don’t do it justice. It has such texture to the roofing. It’s made of hundreds of thousands of individual tiles that you can see in the next photo.
Howler Monkey-faraway friday AMAZON
This male was not happy that we stopped our canoe to watch his troupe in the tree tops. So he positioned himself over us and pooped (just missing my husband but hitting our guide). He got us moving again!
Hey look at me…Wildlife Wednesday
This male frigate bird puffs up his red balloon on his chest to attract females. He builds his best nest and then tries to lure the females to check it out.
Galapagos.