Jacqui has been wanting to take me and the kids to Cockatoo Island for a while, to see the exhibtion on there as part of the Sydney Biennale. So of we went, and lucky for us, they have a free ferry running from Walsh bay ( easier parking for us ) to Circular Quay and onto Cockatoo Island, and looping around like that every 45min or so
love our bridge
and opera house
such amazing winter weather we are having in Sydney these past days, just awesome blue sky days, but no surf to go with it unfortunatly
Leaving Circular Quay
Spunk alert
on the island, Cockatoo Island was a naval shipbuilding yard, so lots of cranes and wharehouses around here
some of which house exhibitions like this one
awesome day
awesome girl in tunnel
this was one of the most popular pieces with young and old, a fine water mist
love the look of these old cranes against the blue sky
back to our beautiful bridge. I keep saying our, as I have a little gripe about the fact that we are still paying a toll to cross the bridge, and a rather high toll. Back inmy day…it used to be 20cents, then went up to a dollar, then a dollar twenty, at the time it was said that this was need to pay of the bridge, built in 1932, a lot of loans were invloved and the toll was used as a way to pay of this load and then State Premier came out with the big announcement some time in the late 80's that the "bridge was ours " as the loan was repayed. So, great, we all though, no more need for the tolls ( which slows traffic down a lot ) but no, now we are paying more than double, up to 4 in peak hour ( they now introduced different tolls for different times ) So yeah, if it is ours, why we still paying( more than double ) for it
just had to get that out sorry
back at Walsh bay, there was still something to see as part of the biennale at wharf 2 as well
spot the fam
India trying to be taller than Jacqui
time to head home, thanks Jacs for insisting we go ( even though I wanted to stay home and work in the vegie patch 🙂 It was a nice outing 🙂
