Sydney - Australia

The Boy Charlton pool almost ready to reopen for spring swimming.

View though the dark leaves of the harbourside fig.

In Maquarie Street are these optometrists. Like their sign.

Lunchtime rubber band pullers at Farm Cove.

Sydney poet up close.

The giant lilies are out in Hyde Park.

Same vessel from 2 days ago but from across the bay. Ocean Shield - a renamed viking vessel.

On September 7 this year Australians go to the polls. Voting is compulsory here so unless you have a good excuse or wish to pay the fine ...

A Royal Australian Naval offshore support vessel, originally the MSV Skandi Bergen. Berthed here at Fleet Base East (Wooloomooloo).

One of my usual haunts closed for a holiday, I do not blame them as it is cold. (Can't wait for spring) But I like their sign.

Try the Cafe Paradiso in this sunny corner of the MLC building off Martin Place.

What is an 'Aahhhh moment' and how does it differ from a 'Arghhhh moment'? Sign outside Avalon yoga studio.

Bust in Kings Cross next to the fountain. According to the plaque 'Bernies greeting is warmly remembered" Maurice Bernard Houghto...

Here is the Royal Australian Navy base at Taylors Point. Just been renovated. Used to be where they test fired torpedoes in WWII.

Sitting on the dock of the bay ...

One of my favourite parks is on Pittwater.

Located on the headland between Bungan and Newport Beach. Built in 1919 by Adolph Albers from locally quarried sandstone.

31 kilometres north of the Sydney is this hidden gem, hard to find, between Newport and Mona Vale. The name Bungan is first recorded in a...

Any ideas what sort of car this is, I was surprised! My first guess was a Datsun 1600, nup.

A bit of a jumble.