Sydney Day 4

Awake at 9:30 have breakfast and shower

10:15 depart for the city

Walk to tram and catch it to central station and then catch a train through the underground to circular quay.

Wow Circular quay station is a great place for photography full of activity and wonderfully lit by the light shining in from the harbour. The contrast between the areas illuminated by sunshine and the unilluminated sections of the platforms creates great photographic opportunities.

I Walk downstairs and catch a ferry to Darling Harbour

Disembark at Darling Harbour and Walk along the foreshore in the direction of circular quay.

The area is full of people sitting, eating and walking

I Reach some more unattractive office buildings and decide to stop because I am hot and the heat is reflecting off the concrete.

I have coffee in a café in the foyer of an office block in Shelley street and watch the office workers and take a photograph of a middle aged woman.

I Proceed up Sussex street, although this street runs beside the docklands area there is very a limited view of the harbour. This is an unattractive street in which the historic colonial buildings are dwarfed by unattractive skyscrapers.

I then walk along Hickson Street things are still not improving

The street ends with a historic warehouse and I spy people walking into what is the foreshore park area(under development)

This foreshore park is a long stretch of unattractive concrete split by a blue line and boarded on on one side by the sea and on the other by a fence. People march through this hot space without stopping. The exception to this is a small group of people sheltering under a giant umbrella.

Leave the coastal park and entre town place

Entre Hickson street converted warehouses an overpass and the Sydney theatre company.

I continue up Hickson Street till I reach the rocks

The rocks is one of the most historic locations in Australia. Sadly this very historic location is not an interesting place to visit, it is full of very dull commercial Galleries, gift shops and restaurants.

Dropped into the museum of contemporary art . The only thing on was an exhibition by electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer called recorders.” The artworks in Recorders saw, heard and felt the actions of people around them, using technology to create a playful yet ominous experience”. The exhibition featured 12 pieces by the artist some are reasonably interesting others leave one cold and some are just cute and gimmicky.

The exhibit in which lights flash in response to your body’s pulse although aesthetically pleasing is unimpressive and looks like something from the 1970s.The two exhibits that capture manipulate and project the manipulated images of the viewer onto screens are amusing but again unimpressive.

If he is an master of this medium then one would expect to see exhibits of greater complexity and witt.

Walked back to circular quay and caught a train to Kings Cross. The second iconic location for the day.I was left so cold by Kings cross that I didn’t bother to take photographs. What was I meant to photograph the hookers? The pimps? The backpackers? Or the Spruikers?.

Went to a café next to Fitzroy Gardens in Macleay Street, I sit down and order a glass of wine and a bowl of chips The waitress appears with an enormous bowl of chips and two glasses of wine and explains that they were offering a two for one deal I finish my two glasses of wine and watch the other customers and depart and leave half the chips behind.

I Get lost and had to ask a sex club spruiker for directions for the station. I have always been a cheap drunk and regret my level of intoxication I head for the hotel.

Back to the central station and then tram to hotel

Pick up a pizza and head back to the hotel

Eat pizza watch TV and drink coke