Calling Sydney

I’m a bit late with this, but I still wanted to post some pics from my new year’s eve here as well. We (that’s me, my ex-flatmate Daniel and one of his friends) went to circular quay first to meet some English friends. The place was already crowded, though it was around 6 pm (see pic below) and the spot that our friends inhabited didn’t offer a really good view, since it was behind some trees, just beneath the harbour bridge.

We therefore decided to move to another spot and took a ferry (you can take a ferry with your regular bus ticket) to Rose bay, from where we went further east towards Watsons bay. It was a nice walk along the coast and we ended up at a spot, which offered a great view on the city center, the opera house and the harbour bridge (see pic above). There were quite a few people, but it wasn’t too crowded. It was nice, since we were sitting on some stones, right next to the water. It felt a bit unusual to celebrate New Year’s in t-shirts, but not as strange as it felt during christmas.

The fireworks were very impressive, but maybe a bit too distant. The pics that I took are actually from the 9 pm firework, which was good, because I was still enough focussed to handle my camera and the mini tripod at that time. :) I tried to take some pics of the major fireworks as well, but they got all blury. Check out this flickr page for the entire experience!