Day 1 - Sydney
My parents arrived in Sydney, where I met them at the airport and then showed them around until they were ready to drop from jet lag
November 21, 2004

02-RivercatFerry My parents and I decided to take a ferry from Parramatta (near the Ayling's house in Dundas), down the Parramatta River into the heart of Sydney, and we rode on a Rivercat Ferry like this one 03-CatholicSchool A Catholic school along the shores of the Parramatta River 04-ParramattaRiver Parramatta River, with the Sydney skyline visible 05-Boats Boats moored in the Parramatta River 06-Skyline The Parramatta River gradually widens and becomes Sydney Harbour 07-HarbourBridge Sydney Harbour Bridge 08-HarbourBridge Sydney Harbour Bridge 09-Bridge Old Coat Hangar, with the Sydney-Devonport ferry, The Spirit of Tasmania, passing beneath it 10-Sydney Sydney 11-SpiritOfTasmania Spirit of Tasmania and the Bridge 12-HarbourBridge Sydney Harbour Bridge 13-BridgeOperaHouse Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House 14-Bridge-CloseUp Close-up of the Bridge 15-UnderTheBridge Under the Bridge 16-SydneyOperaHouse Sydney Opera House 17-SydneySkyline Sydney skyline 18-OperaHouse Sydney Opera House 19-MomDad-OperaHouse Mom & Dad on the ferry in front of the Opera House, proving they were actually in Australia :-) 20-CircularQuay Circular Quay, a rail, ferry & bus station, making it a central public transit hub in downtown Sydney 21-AboriginalDancers Some Aboriginal dancers at Circular Quay, after we disembarked from the Rivercat Ferry ... we were on our way to the Manly Ferry, the green and yellow boat in the background 22-Jared-OperaHouse I'm in Sydney! 23-OperaHouse-Skyline The Sydney Opera House and skyline, as viewed from the Manly Ferry 24-MacquariesPoint Mrs Macquarie's Point, part of the Sydney Botanic Gardens 25-Battleship A battleship moored in Sydney Harbour ... I believe it's a museum 26-SydneyHarbour Sydney Harbour 27-OperaHouseHarbourBridge Looking back down the Parramatta River at the Opera House and Bridge 28-TinyLighthouse A rather tiny lighthouse in Sydney Harbour 29-NorthHead North Head, the gateway from Sydney Harbour to the South Pacific Ocean 30-ManlyCove Manly Cove 31-ManlyWharf Manly Wharf 32-RustedPost A rusted post at the wharf ... Mom said she might wanna paint it someday 33-TheCorso The Corso, a pedestrian mall stretching across the peninsula from Manly Wharf to Manly Beach 34-ManlyBeach Manly Beach 35-ManlyBeach Manly Beach 36-ManlyBeach Manly Beach 37-ManlyBeach Manly Beach 38-Mom-Wading Mom wading in the South Pacific 39-Mom-Wading Apparently one of those waves was a little bigger than she was expecting 40-StrongCurrentSign It's not always safe to swim at all areas of a beach due to riptides 41-HarbourBridge Sydney Harbour Bridge, in all its magnificence 42-OperaHouse Sydney Opera House 43-SydneyHarbourBridge Sydney Harbour Bridge 44-MomDad-OperaHouse Mom & Dad by the Opera House ... unfortunately we couldn't get a whole lot closer to the Opera House than this, because of the Australian Idol Grand Final happening that day 45-MomDad-HarbourBridge Mom & Dad at the same spot, this time with the Harbour Bridge as a backdrop 46-Jared-OperaHouse I love Sydney! 47-CircularQuay Circular Quay 48-FigTree A sprawling, gnarled fig tree in the Sydney Botanic Gardens 49-PalmTreeHarbourBridge A palm tree and the Harbour Bridge 50-HarbourBridgeOperaHouse The Australian Idol crowds on the steps of the Opera House 51-OperaHouse Opera House 52-RedFlowers Red flowers in the Botanic Gardens 53-GumTreeHarbourBridge A gum tree and the Harbour Bridge 54-BotanicGardens Sydney Botanic Gardens 55-HarbourBridgeOperaHouse Harbour Bridge & the Opera House 56-FigTree Sprawling fig tree 57-FigTree Fig tree 58-MomDad-Bamboo Mom & Dad by a stand of giant bamboo 59-BotanicGardens Sydney Botanic Gardens 60-HarbourBridgePalms Sydney Harbour Bridge and the palms of Circular Quay 61-Jackarandas Jacaranda trees at Circular Quay 62-PalmsHarbourBridge Palms and the Sydney Harbour Bridge 63-SydneyOperaHouse Sydney Opera House 64-OperaHouse My last glimpse of the Opera House, but hopefully not my last one ever 65-AustralianIdol Australian Idol advisory sign 01-DadMom-Airport Dad & Mom arriving at the Sydney Airport on the morning of November 21, 2004 ... this is supposed to come first in the album, but jAlbum insists on being stupid and putting it last, I can't figure out why, sigh

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