Sydney Biennale at Cockatoo Island

August 30, 2012

Sydney Biennale at Cockatoo Island

Jacqui has been wanting to take me and the kids to Cockatoo Island for a while, to see the exhibtion on there as part of the Sydney Biennale. So of we went, and lucky for us, they have a free ferry running from Walsh bay ( easier parking for us ) to Circular Quay and onto Cockatoo Island, and looping around like that every 45min or so

love our bridge

and opera house

such amazing winter weather we are having in Sydney these past days, just awesome blue sky days, but no surf to go with it unfortunatly

Leaving Circular Quay

Spunk alert

on the island, Cockatoo Island was a naval shipbuilding yard, so lots of cranes and wharehouses around here

some of which house exhibitions like this one

awesome day

awesome girl in tunnel

this was one of the most popular pieces with young and old, a fine water mist

love the look of these old cranes against the blue sky

back to our beautiful bridge. I keep saying our, as I have a little gripe about the fact that we are still paying a toll to cross the bridge, and a rather high toll. Back inmy day...it used to be 20cents, then went up to a dollar, then a dollar twenty, at the time it was said that this was need to pay of the bridge, built in 1932, a lot of loans were invloved and the toll was used as a way to pay of this load and then State Premier came out with the big announcement some time in the late 80's that the "bridge was ours " as the loan was repayed. So, great, we all though, no more need for the tolls ( which slows traffic down a lot ) but no, now we are paying more than double, up to 4 in peak hour ( they now introduced different tolls for different times ) So yeah, if it is ours, why we still paying( more than double ) for it