Some images of a weekend break to Sydney for a friend's birthday.
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| Sculpture of Lloyd Rees by Lawrence Beck |
Lloyd Rees (1895 - 1988) was an Australian landscape painter who twice won the Wynne Prize for his landscape paintings. A plaque on this plinth reads 'A city is the greatest work of art possible'.
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| The good folk of Sydney wait patiently for the bus |
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| Strelitzia, known as the 'bird of paradise' flower |
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| Danger: Lift Motor Room |
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| Clearly very scary - but beer will help |
And then I started playing about with the lighting effects on the Opera House and the Harbour Bridge as we caught a ferry back to the North Shore.
The next day a big storm came rolling in and the waves were crashing into the rock pools on our morning run. The kids were enjoying themselves as the life guards kept watch.