Fractal Blog

There's only so many activities related to setting up a new life one can do in any given day so usually there's plenty of time left over to get to know our new city. Walking through the Botanical Gardens with my long lens, this beautiful bright-red dragonfly obligingly posed for many shots.

This bird was walking through the grass looking for worms. Not quite sure what it is but it looked interesting and hence got captured just as it was stretching its wings.

There is always something to see on the harbour. Sometimes big sailing ships parade around the harbour, and occasionally they even have some of their sails up. This is the most sails I've actually seen deployed so far.

Others rely entirely on wind power. The leader in this yacht race nearly ran into our ferry. Hint: The ferry is bigger.

Then again, as far as size goes, this carrier won. The ferry in front is the Manly service, the biggest passenger ferry on the harbour, with a carrying capacity of almost 1,000 passengers. It is dwarfed by the car carrier. However, the ferry wins on beauty and style.

Yet another cruise ship was docked today at Darling Harbour, the Dawn of the Pacific.

It's Australia Day tomorrow, and the city is getting ready to celebrate. A marquee has been erected on this warship. No need to be prepared for the eventuality of having to launch aircraft then.

Coincidentally we're also moving into our rented flat tomorrow. As usual they can't provision broadband until after the phone line has been provisioned, and they can't provision the phone line until we've actually moved in. So expect a 1-2 week break in the blogging process. Once we have achieved civilisation (broadband) again I'll post pictures of the views from our new flat.