The Opera House and the Bridge... icons of the Sydney skyline... seem to be ever present when you are in Sydney. The way the city is situated around the harbour... they are like a full moon in the sky - seemingly following you wherever you go! One of them seems to sneak into nearly every photo!!!
The bridge is massive. It is actually the world's widest long span bridge. It carries six lanes of road traffic on its main roadway, two lanes of road traffic (formerly two tram tracks) and a footpath on its eastern side, and two railway tracks and a bicycle path along its western side. It is also the world's tallest steel arch bridge at 430 feet from it's top point to the water! Trust me, when you are on the ferry going under it - it is breathtakingly massive!!!!
The Opera House is really equally huge. The building alone covers 4.5 acres of land!
I don't know if it is more spectacular in the day, with the sunlight glimmering off the roof's over 1 million glossy tiles...
or at night, when it uses the electricity equivalent to a city of 25,000 people to light it all up!
I love this picture of Lauren and Taylor walking up just one of the flights of hundreds of stairs.
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