Thanks for the lovely comments everyone... it's ocertainly nice to have this environment to live in... and yes, i understand how far away we are... but that's just a great excuse to have a lot of red wine during the flight over (which helps with the DVT )

and for those contemplating a holiday in Aust.. why not visit both Melbourne and Sydney... both have such wonderful places to see.. (Roy, will be down in Melb for the orchid show in August.. are u going to it?)

anyhooo.. spent the day across the road again... i'm thinking we aren't really having a winter...

so another view of the city from one of the other hills..



these are the chimney stacks... Sydney Park use to be a brick kiln and many of the bricks used around Sydney was actually made here..


and a closer view of one of the lakes...


cheers
tim