Photo Adventures with Curiosity and Learning


November 21, 2007: An Australian Adventure: Tea at the Opera House

Our ritual - starting the day with reflections of our hotel

nov 21 4141 raw

And a closer view from outside

nov 21 4147 HSBC reflection

Here is flat Jacob, waiting at the monorail station

nov 21 4155 flat jacob monorail

Considering a ticket

nov 21 4156 flat jacob monorail

from there, we walked to the Powerhouse Museum

nov 21 4159 flat jacob powerhouse

And saw a locomotive

nov 21 4168 flat jacob locomotive

and some construction

nov 21 4172 flat jacob construction

Then walking back, another sign for the Powerhouse Museum

nov 21 4177 flat jacob powerhouse sign

Here is Jacob's monorail

nov 21 4178 flat jacob monorail

and reflections of clouds

nov 21 4179 cloud reflection

a building reflection - and then walking to the Chinese Garden

nov 21 4204 building reflection

Ellen and Flat Jacob enjoy the Chinese Garden

nov 21 4206 flat jacob waterfall

Flat Jacob enjoying the pool

nov 21 4210 flat jacob pool

And passing an interesting shop

nov 21 4240 flat jacob shop

We visited the Sydney Opera House next and explored reflections and high tea

nov 21 4251 sydney opera house

Here is Flat Jacob and the Sydney Bridge

nov 21 4261 flat jacob waving sydney bridge

And here is Circular Quay

nov 21 4277 circular quay

And the sign announcing the Opera House

nov 21 4263 flat jacob opera sign

Flat Jacob in his flat configuration

nov 21 4288 flat jacob flat

A reflection of the sky

nov 21 4257 sydney opera reflection

and to the Sydney Opera House where Flat Jacob had high tea with Aboriginal paintings

nov 21 4242 flat jacob high tea

Here is where we had tea

nov 21 4266 opera tea

Like a looking glass

nov 21 4271 tea looking glass

Another view of the Opera House

nov 21 4292 sydney opera house

with the skyline in the background

nov 21 4295 tea skyline

another reflection

nov 21 4301 operahouse reflection

Our tea house

nov 21 4311 teahouse

and the plan - how the Opera House was designed as solid sectors of a sphere

nov 21 4328 operahouse design

Here is the main idea. The product of thinking

nov 21 4330 design main idea

Here we had tea

nov 21 4334 tea

And another reflection

nov 21 4337 teahouse reflection

Friends at tea

nov 21 4345 tea friends

and the desert - yummy

nov 21 4346 tea desert

and a concert

nov 21 4350 tea concert

another view

nov 21 4354 tea concert

Later a gull on one leg

nov 21 4367 gull

and a musical group

nov 21 4375 horns

I just can't get enough of building reflections

nov 21 4382 building reflection

and waiting for the kiosk guy to return - to purchase a bus ticket for home

nov 21 4384 ellen bus kiosk

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C. Frank Starmer

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