Photo gallery: Various small stuff
Various small stuff is the special gallery established in February 2006 and seems to be never ending...
U can find there many unclassified, personal or just hopefully interesting photos :)
The latest pics are always placed in the beginning of the gallery.
Photo gallery: Sydney from above
These pictures were taken from the roof of a 37-level building, Sydney Tower and air planes.
Photo gallery: BBQ on Maroubra Beach
Google Earth Position: 33°57'0.71"S 151°15'33.49"E
Maroubra Beach...
BBQ...
From 3pm till early morning...
Photo gallery: Czech music, food and beer
We visited many Czech parties and restaurants in Sydney...
Photo gallery: Bondi Beach after the 30-year storm
Summer is here... but how was the winter actually? Pretty windy, rainy and a bit cold.
And there were several heavy storms in Sydney and around. In the gallery you can see how Bondi Beach looked like after the biggest one.
Photo gallery: Shots from Manly
Google Earth Position: 33°47'49.72"S 151°17'16.94"E
Here are several shots from our favourite Manly Beach which we visited many times.
Photo gallery: Darling Harbour Fiesta
Google Earth Position: 33°52'6.48"S 151°12'1.45"E
I experienced the sights, sounds, tastes, flamboyance and flair at Australia's hottest dance and music festival - Darling Harbour Fiesta!
Salsa, tango, bossa nova and rumba... with more than 70 performances across three stages and Latin in these three sizzling days and nights.
Fiesta simply brings together traditional and contemporary talent from across South and Central America and Spain.
Yeah, it was hot indeed! Look at my pals from Mexico and Poland :)
Photo gallery: Annual Ritmo Brazilian Festival
Several shots of Capoeira (Brazilian fight-dance) taken at the Brazilian festival in Sydney's Darling Harbour and Tumbalong Park a week ago.
Photo gallery: Wayan's birthday party
Here are several shots from a birthday party at the Beach Palace Hotel on Coogee Beach.
The pics were taken by Rose-Mary, thanks for that!
Photo gallery: Living on Bondi Beach - Winter 2007
Another half a year of living on the beach is gone...
Photo gallery: La Perouse
Google Earth Position: 33°59'22.68"S 151°13'53.43"E
Several shots from a trip to La Perouse in Sydney.
Located on the northern side of Botany Bay, La Perouse is a south-east part of Sydney named after Le Compte de Laperouse, a French explorer who arrived here in 1788. There are small beaches and great walking trails around.
There's a (poorly constructed) fort from 19th century in the Bare Island. Btw Mission Impossible II was shot there.
Photo gallery: Coastal walk Tamarama to Bronte
Google Earth Position: 33°54'2.13"S 151°16'18.94"E
Several pictures from one of our many strolls along the Pacific Ocean.
Tamarama Beach is small and extremely narrow. It's considered the most dangerous patrolled beach in New South Wales, with more rescues per thousand bathers than any other of Sydney's beaches.
Bronte Beach lies just several hundred meters south of Tamarama Beach and in many respects is like a big brother. It is a slightly bigger beach at 250m long, but with bigger rips. Australia's oldest surf club was formed here in 1903.
Photo gallery: City2Surf 2007
City2Surf is an annual charitable road running event goes from the centre of Sydney to Bondi Beach. More than 60.000 people took part in this 14 km long competition this year.
Here are several shots from Bondi Beach.
Photo gallery: Dee Why Beach
Google Earth Position: 33°45'13.87"S 151°17'47.43"E
Dee Why Beach is one of Sydney 's Northern Beaches (a continuous strip of around 20 beaches stretching up the coast from Manly to Palm Beach). The beach runs for about 1.2 km.
BTW the Northern Beaches are overall one of the wealthiest areas of Sydney.
The name Dee Why is unexplained. The earliest reference to it is pencil note in surveyor's book, "Wednesday, 27th Sept, 1815 Dy Beach" – but what it meant to him was not recorded...
Photo gallery: Cronulla
Google Earth Position: 34° 3'59.81"S 151° 8'46.05"E
Here are several shots from Darook Park in Cronulla.
Cronulla is a beachside suburb in southern Sydney located 26km south of the Sydney central business district (CBD) directly reachable by a train.
The 2005 Cronulla riots were a series of ethnically motivated mob confrontations which originated in and around Cronulla. Soon after the riot, ethnically motivated violent incidents occurred in several other Sydney suburbs, including Bondi Beach.
Photo gallery: Sydney Aquarium
I spent several amazing hours with my Slovak mates in the Sydney Aquarium in Sydney’s Darling Harbour.
It is one of the largest aquariums in the world with more than 6000 different Australian fish and other sea and water creatures displayed in their natural habitats. We walked "on the ocean floor" through 145 metres of several underwater tunnels.
I enjoyed especially these sections a lot: the Great Barrier Reef Oceanarium, the Open ocean Oceanarium and the Seal Sanctuary.
Photo gallery: USS Kitty Hawk in Sydney
The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) has arrived in Sydney Harbour for several days, accompanied by four other US navy ships. The ship holds about 5500 sailors and can carry up to 75 aircraft.
The huge extensive clearway (no-stopping allowed) and no-parking provisions have been put in place around the naval base in a bid to avoid a traffic chaos. Thousands of people wanting to catch a glimpse of the mighty craft are forced to use public transport.
Photo gallery: North Head
North Head is a headland south-east of the suburb of Manly as a part of Sydney Harbour National Park. It is situated just opposite to South Head.
We found that this area is really nice for a walk, look at both the city and ocean and also for a picnic of course :)
