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| Greenwich Ferry in Sydney Harbor |
We took the ferry from Greenwich, on the Sydney Harbor, where we were staying with our friends Phil and Sue Burgess, to Circular Quay, the center of the old port of Sydney. As we came into the Quay, the Sydney Harbor bridge loomed above, and the Sydney Opera House was resplendent in the sun on our left.
Approaching Circular Quay
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| The Most Iconic Building of the 20th Century? |
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| At the Jetty |
Circular Quay is where, in Eric Bogle's classic anti-war song, And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda, they landed: "the crippled, the wounded, the maimed. . . the legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla".
It is also the spot where Tom Dudley of The Queen v. Dudley and Stephens set up shop as a sail maker after he did his time in gaol for eating the cabin boy.
Such history in Australia!
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