Archive for the ‘scenic’ Category
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
In the Blue Mountains to the west of the city the townships keep to the central plateau and north and south there are enormous thickly forested valleys with sheer cliffs … panorama. Being a landscape of ancient tropical seabeds there are coal seams here and small scale mining went on until the 1930s. Mining is blamed for the landslide you see here — where a large hunk of cliff tumbled into the valley in the middle of the night in early 1932. For a year crowds gathered at a large crack in the cliff top hoping to see some action but in the end it fell unwatched.
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
At the Opera House last night, projections from across Sydney Cove, onto the sails … panorama: Quicktime version, Flash version.
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Saturday, May 9th, 2009
I was in Melbourne last weekend and went up to the 86th floor of the new Eureka Tower on the South Bank, where there is an observation deck … panorama. In the opening view of the panorama you can see the Yarra River winding its way west - then south, to Port Phillip Bay. The most impressive part of the Eureka Tower “experience” I thought was the sci-fi speed and smoothness of the lifts. Sydney’s Centrepoint Tower lifts are placid in comparison.
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Wednesday, December 24th, 2008
The backpacker party (Santa’s elves in the foreground) at Bondi Beach on Christmas Day is a long term Sydney tradition. Panorama. Also traditional is the attendance of Santa Claus at the Wayside Chapel for the Christmas dinner for the homeless and unattached. Panorama.
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
Tamarama sunset yesterday - panorama, Quicktime.
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
I made a second trip to Jenolan Caves last weekend and made some more panoramas. First … the Cathedral Cave … panorama, Quicktime, Flash. This is the tallest chamber in the caves. There is an interesting article on the “Age and Origin of the Jenolan Tourist Caves” here. Here is the Orient Cave, perhaps the most elaborately “decorated” chamber in the Caves … panorama, Flash
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Tuesday, July 15th, 2008
This is Barangaroo in the leadup to the first WYD Mass yesterday — Panorama, Quicktime, Flash. Barangaroo is a a large area of wharfage which is due for conversion to parks, apartments etc shortly. Originally there were rocks and beaches here but they were excavated away in the 19C to make this cliff edge and the area for the wharf. Here is the Pope in his Popemobile whizzing past me in the Rocks last night (Thursday night) … Panorama, Quicktime. I got another panorama of the Pope on Sunday at Randwick Racecourse where he did a circuit of the enormous crowd before conducting the final Mass of WYD … panorama, Quicktime. Here from earlier in the week “Nuns on a Bus” … panorama Quicktime. These nuns venerate Saint Faustina, “the first saint of the Third Millenium”, and the painting they are holding represents one of her visions.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
Sizable crowds turned out yesterday to see the new Cunard liner Queen Victoria on her first visit to Sydney – panorama – and the final visit of the QEII (off to become a floating hotel in the Middle East) .
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
A warm sunny day today after a month of cool, wet weather …. panorama. This is Dawes Point after Captain Dawes of the First Fleet - who built the colony’s first observatory here. The ugly metal sign on the concrete pillar out in the water is a speed limit notice for boats. A little way along the shore towards the city is Campbells Cove — panorama — the site of the colony’s first Stores. The tall ship is the Svanen.
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