A few photos of fixies parked in Sydney. It seems most of these fixies had not been used in a while because many of the change we rusted — perhaps this was because of the recent rain.

We had planned to go for Christmas Day walk through Hyde Park, The Domain and have lunch at Mrs Macquaries Chair. We got to Mrs Macquaries Chair earlier than expected so continued to walk on to Rushcutters Bay — see next blog post.

Hyde Park

St Mary’s Cathedral

The Domain

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Andrew (Boy) Charlton Pool

Where else in the world is there a swimming pool that overlooks a country’s naval ships.

Mrs Macquarie’s Chair

Apparently Governor Macquaries wife Mrs Macquaries liked sitting on this point and watching the harbour. Governor Macquarie had his labourers carve out the sandstone to make a seat for Mrs Macquarie. We stopped and had morning tea sitting on Mrs Macquarie’s Chair.

Sydney Opera House and Sydney Harbour Bridge

Royal Botanic Gardens

Woolloomooloo Bay

The Sydney weather turned on a sparkling day for our visit to Taronga Zoo. We took a short 10 minute ferry trip from Circular Quay to Taronga Zoo. We got to see most of the exhibits but were a little disappointed to see that the lion and orangutan exhibits were closed. We are going to Dubbo Zoo in a couple of days so no doubt we will see them there.

View of the Sydney Harbour Bridge taken during the free walking tour.

These photos of the Sydney Opera House were taken before the free walking tour from Circular Quay.