king st wharf

got off the bus at wynyard but didn't know which way to walk, so i ended up at king st wharf (close to darling harbour)

world youth day

all the world youth day events were getting set up while i was in sydney, including the big mass that would be at the wharf

world youth day

stage getting set up

artwork ahead?

"artwork"

apparently some people can't tell that a car with a giant boulder on top of it is artwork and not an actual catastrophe

sydney harbour bridge

sydney opera house

circular quay

where all the ferries depart from

museum of contemporary art

holding the biennale art festival, which is sort of like a festival for revolutionary art (a lot of pieces are created specifically for the festival)

biennale art festival

is it?

ferry to parramatta

i was bored so i took a ferry way out west to parramatta

sydney skyline

taken from the ferry

cockatoo island

an island of many former uses, currently as a venue for biennale

parramatta river

history walk

there's this path that runs alongside the end of the parramatta river that tells the story of the white men overtaking the aboriginals ... not a happy story

a turtle

the invasion

one of the many signposts

parramatta river

looking east towards the city

erby???

like whoa!

sydney harbour bridge

sydney opera house

three sisters

went to the blue mountains; this is one of the famous rock/cliff formations that the indigenous have many folk tales about

blue mountains

the "blue" is from the haze created by the oils of the eucalyptus trees

blue mountains

you can see people at the top of that cliff

blue mountains

leura lolly shop

old time lolly shop we went to