Wednesday 21 June 2006

Sydney Airport

Today I went to Hobart and back for the funeral of a very dear colleague. This is a photo of the International teminal at Sydney Airport, taken from atop a rocky cutting on the Princes Highway, looking over the Cooks River.

Despite what some people think, flights to The Apple Isle (Tasmania) do not leave from this terminal - Tasmania is a state of Australia and flights are domestic! (On a certain travel site I frequent, there are often requests for help from people announcing they are going to visit "Australia and Tasmania")

3 comments:

  1. Sorry for your sorrow. For many Europeans, Tasmania is full of mystery and really enigmatic!

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  2. Oh, yes, alice it is.

    It is so different to the mainland. I was bowled over by the vegetation especially; around the Cradle Mountain area there are so many trees and other plants that you won't see anywhere else in the world, even the mainland!

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  3. As a Tasmanian, may I say I'm glad to hear that a mainlander realizes that Tasmania is part of the nation of Australia. We get so sick of being left off the map!

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