Just a few pictures

I'm short on words today so I've opted to just post a few pics of things I've seen in the past few weeks or so. Enjoy.

One of the big trees that line the street in front of my hostel. If you look closely you'll see that the bark is patchy and two different colours, kind of like camoflouge. Hence, I call these army trees. It's a technical term.

A parrot flew into the kitchen at the hostel this morning! At first I thought he was someone's pet but I guess he just came on inside. The kitchen has large doors opening onto a courtyard so it musn't have been too hard for him to get in.

Couldn't believe the wild colours on him.

A gigantic, old fig tree I discovered next to an old church in a a part of Sydney called Newtown. Newtown is actually quite an old town, most of the buildings dating from the 1850s or so. The tree is about the same age. Amazing root structure, isn't it?

A view toward downtown Sydney from Watson's Bay. I spent a day at the beach out there last week. Very nice and relaxing place.

An interesting angle of the roof at Sydney's Opera House. As you can see, the roof is actually made up of hundreds of thousands of tiles that were shipped from Sweden when they were constructing the building.

More wild birds! These huge cockatoos just roam the park, not too far from where the bats hang out in the trees. They are pretty tame and will even let you get nice and close for a picture.