Monochrome Weekend

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Weekend Reflections

For more reflections visit James' Newtown Area Photo.

Skywatch Friday

The cool change finally hits after a 40 degree C day.

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Sydney Festival - The Famous Spiegeltent - interior

Sekou Keita Quintet

Spiegeltents are hand-hewn pavilions used as travelling dance halls, bars and entertainment salons since they were created in the early 20th century. There are only a handful of these unique and legendary ‘tents of mirrors' left in the world today. Built of wood, mirrors, canvas, leaded glass and detailed in velvet and brocade, each has its own personality and style.

Sydney Festival - The Famous Spiegeltent - exterior

The most beautiful of the last remaining Belgian Spiegeltents, The Famous Spiegeltent, was built in 1920 by master craftsmen Oscar Mols Dom and Loius Goor. This Grande Dame has spent her lifetime at the bequest of festivals and fairgrounds throughout Europe and beyond, playing host to the world's greatest cabaret artists, musicians and circus burlesque performers.

Straya Day

We are one, but we are many
And from all the lands on earth we come

We share a dream and sing with one voice:

I am, you are, we are Australian.

(chorus, I am Australian, Woodley/Newton)

HAPPY STRAYA DAY MATE!

What the?

Another one of those intriguing posters which turned out to be advertising nothing more interesting than a buy and sell website.

Monochrome Weekend

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Bottlebrush and bird

Sky Watch Friday

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Passengers

Most passengers were Australians but there was a smattering of foreign tourists on board.

Along the River

River People

The Last Riverboat Postman not only delivers mail to people along the river but also groceries to cafes and camps on the various islands.

Last Riverboat Postman

Captain Len

The Last Riverboat Postman is a little wooden ferry that still plies the Hawkesbury River delivering mail and groceries to people who live on the islands along the river. Its a lovely way to spend a few hours, which is exactly what Julie from Sydney Eye and myself did a couple of weeks back.

Sydney Festival - First Night - Hyde Park

Sydney Festival - First Night - Buildings

Sky Watch Friday - Once in a Blue Moon

New Years Eve. A blue moon is the "extra" full moon in years that have thirteen full moons.

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Sydney Festival - First Night - Light Show

Lasers in Hyde Park.

Sydney Festival - First Night - People