Sydney Olympic Park, Superdome

The Sydney Superdome is an undercover stadium at Sydney Olympic Park. It was built for the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000 and is now known as Acer Arena.

Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney Showground

The Sydney Showground Exhibition Hall and the Wynne Pavilion  (top) are some of the many pavilions that make up the Sydney Showgrounds at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay. The Sports Halls (bottom) are used for sporting events and are used for exhibitions by the Royal Agricultural Society during the annual Royal Easter Show.

Sydney Olympic Park, stadiums

The Hockey Centre, Athletics Centre and Aquatic Centre at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay.

Sydney Olympic Park pods

These interactive video pods are scattered throughout Sydney Olympic Park, displaying information on current and historical events. The pods are surrounded by poles of varying height that indicate their location, which are gold, silver and bronze which, the colours of medals that can be won at the Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Sydney Olympic Park, Stadium Australia

Stadium Australia is the former Olympic Stadium, now known as ANZ Stadium, built for the Sydney Olympic Games. It is located at Sydney Olympic Park, in the western suburb of Homebush Bay.

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Sydney Olympic Park, Games Memories

'Games Memories', which is also known as 'Forest of Poles', at Sydney Olympic Park is a monument to the Sydney 2000 Summer Olympics. Each pole features memories that made the games special to athletes, volunteers and spectators. The poles are randomly distributed and of varying heights to symbolise the way that people randomly clustered across the Olympic Plaza and Olympic Boulevard during the Games.

Sydney Olympic Park, Northern Water Feature

The Northern Water Feature is located at Sydney Olympic Park at Homebush Bay. The ten metre high fountains consist of three rows of water plumes, the first two rows on granite terraces that cascade water down to a pool with another row of water plumes. Haslam Pier is a walkway beside them that leads to a lookout to Haslams Creek. Osmosis is the name of the artwork built into the pier.

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Haslams Creek

A view of Haslams Creek which runs between the western suburbs of Homebush Bay and Newington. 

Homebush Bay, brickpit (Theme Day: Feet)

The elevated Brickpit Ring Walkway at Homebush Bay provides a great view of the old brickpit which is now a pond. I had trouble finding something in Sydney for this theme day but thought a walkway is the closest thing to feet that I could find.

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Haslams Creek

A view of Haslams Creek which runs between the suburbs of Homebush Bay and Newington. This photo was taken before all the rain we had recently when the grass looked really dry and brown.

Canada Bay

This view across Canada Bay, towards the inner west suburb of Canada Bay.

Concord, Hen and Chicken Bay

A cloudy sky over the inner west suburb of Concord, looking across Hen and Chicken Bay. Bayview Park wharf can be seen on the shore along with the Canadian monument in Bayview Park, that I featured over the last two days. The old Bushells Tea factory and new apartment developments can be seen in the background.

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Canada Bay monument

This monument in Concord honours a historic link between Australia and Canada. Following the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 to 1838, two Irish and 56 French Canadian rebels were deported to Australia and imprisoned at the Longbottom Stockade. The area around here bears a reminder of this history with the names Canada Bay, France Bay and Exile Bay.

Concord wharf

This wharf sits at the end of Bayview Park, on Hen and Chicken Bay, in the inner west suburb of Concord.
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Ashfield, St Vincent's presbytery

The former presbytery is on the corner of Bland Street and Elizabeth Street, in the inner west suburb of Ashfield. This heritage listed building is attached to St Vincent's Catholic Church.

Ashfield, St Vincent's Catholic Church

St Vincents Catholic Church (top) at Ashfield looks like a building you would expect to see in Italy. The original St Vincents Supreme School building sits beside it (bottom).

Sydney Grammar School

Sydney Grammar School is a private high school for boys, in the inner city suburb of Darlinghurst. This heritage sandstone building is located along College Street, next door to the Australian Museum. The Sydney College was founded here in 1830 and the centre block was designed by Edward Hallen in the Victorian Academic Classical style and completed in 1832. It was taken over by the University of Sydney and extensions were made to the north and south, designed by Edmund Blacket and completed in 1857.

Museum of Contemporary Art

This view of the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney is from the platform of Circular Quay railway station and above the awnings of the nearby ferry wharves. It's a magnificent sandstone building in the art deco style.

Sydney Harbour Bridge

 A recent cloudy Autumn sky above the Sydney Harbour Bridge with the Sydney Opera House and the city skyline in the background. I took this photo from Milsons Point, in front of Luna Park, after we took my mum out for lunch for Mothers Day.
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Iron Cove Bridge

The Iron Cove Bridge links the inner west suburbs of Rozelle and Drummoyne. This photo is taken from Drummoyne looking towards Rozelle.