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Sydney Harbour
Sydney Harbour
Sydney Harbour is considered unequivocally to be the most beautiful natural harbour in the world. The 240 kilometres of shoreline encloses around 54 square kilometers of water. The blue skies, the bluer waters, the gliding ferries and the cruising boats – the prettiest post card would be an apology!
The Harbour edge offers long stretches of parklands, reserves, and walking area for you to picnic, stroll, wander and explore as much as you would desire. A walk across the Sydney Harbour Bridge can give you an aerial view of the Harbour in all its beauty.
Furthermore, a climb to the top of the Pylon Tower can give you the splendorous view for a fee. From this outlook, you get to see a view of the Harbour along with the Opera House, The Rocks, Darling Harbour and North Sydney against the backdrop of the blue skies with the blue waters of the Harbour lapping at its edges far below. The Sydney Tower can also give you a bird’s-eye view of the Harbour. And what would be the best way to experience and explore the beauty of the world’s most beautiful harbour? Just cruise around on it of course!!! There are cruise operators who can sail you around the Harbour on short trips as well on long excursions inclusive of food and fun, dinner and dance, and music and merriment!
Sydney Harbour, though famous in itself as the most beautiful natural harbour in the world, is made all the more famous by two of Australia’s most well-known icons – the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Sydney Opera House. Standing tall over the setting of the harbour, the Sydney Harbour Bridge is one of the most attractive, recognizable, and well-known iconic images of Australia. It provides a majestic frame well suited for the beauty of the harbour.
When the First Fleet arrived on the shores of Sydney Cove over a couple of centuries ago, they were abundant with white, bleached shells, a residue from thousands of years of aboriginal life. The aboriginal middens are the remains of the aborigines’ meals, gathered and settled through the lives of generations of aborigines. Several of these sites in places like the Royal National Park of Bundeena are now protected under the National Parks ant Wildlife Act.
Even today, there are shells that greet visitors as they arrive at the Sydney Harbour. They are the modern-day shell middens that form the roofs of the Sydney Opera House. The Sydney Opera House is a confluence of large precast concrete shells of different sizes that form the roofs of the Opera House. These shells are different parts of a hemisphere of the same radius. The roofs of the House that look completely and absolutely white actually comprise of 1.056 million white and matte cream Swedish tiles.
