Aug 28, 2025 A Day in Sydney
We had an 11 hour train ride from Melbourne to Sydney yesterday and a two night layover in Sydney to recover! One full day of sightseeing in Sydney on a beautiful sunny day! We took the bus to the Botanic Garden. We love walking through any garden and the Sydney Royal Botanic Garden is fantastic!
The huge fig tree, the banana plant, the bird’s nest fern backlit by the sun, and the giant tropical plant leaves that make Robert look miniature! And Central Oregon is referenced as home to the largest living organism on Earth!
From the Botanic Garden it’s a quick walk to the iconic Sydney Opera House which we walked around to get views from every angle.
From one spot the soaring roofs look like conquistador helmets, another angle looks like the open mouth of a humpback whale!
From the Opera house we walked around Sydney Cove, the ferry terminal area, to ‘The Rocks’, a gentrified tourist boutique shopping district. Historically a ‘slum’ working class neighborhood near the industrial docks and warehouses notorious in the 1800’s for the narrow alleyways frequented by gangs, prostitutes and drunken sailors!
Many of the stone buildings were slated for demolition, but saved by neighborhood efforts and renovated.