Home town tourist

I often hear how cool Sydney is to just go for a walk in. You can come across some really interesting architecture and you can become bathed in history as you wander through some of the oldest buildings in Australia.

So, last week, I decided to try it for myself. I took the day off for my birthday. I grabbed my camera and hit the road.

My first stop was the new(ish) park at Barangaroo. This area has a long history. There was an estimated 1500 indigenous Australians that lived in the Port Jackson area when Europeans arrived. They used the area as a key food supply as evidenced by middens of shellfish that have been found there. For many years, up until 2003, the site was used and a shipyard. Construction of the newly designed park and office areas started in 2012 and are expected to finish in 2023.

There are few cityscapes that are as iconic as this. The Sydney Harbour would not be the same without these 2 buildings. The Harbour Bridge and the Sydney opera house combined define what the harbour is.

Sydney has been built up on rocky outcrops and cliff edges. Early Sydney-siders used narrow stair cases throughout the city to get around. Many of these Stair cases were carved directly out of the sandstone that were built on.

Some of the native wildlife! These birds are literally everywhere in the city. Often referred to as “Bin Chickens” because their diet seems to be nothing more than plucking half eaten cheeseburgers and left over ice cream cones from garbage cans all over the city. I guess it helps that they are roughly the size of a chicken too! Personally, I love them. They are just out there, doing their thing and making it happen. Ya know?