Inner Harbour, Sydney
This view looks east over the world-famous Harbour Bridge into what I would call the inner harbour beyond.
Visible islands include Goat Island just beyond the bridge and in the far distance Cockatoo, Spectacle and Snapper Islands with the Parramatta river beyond them.
Beyond the left (southern) bridge piers can be seen the old container terminal and the Sydney Harbour Control Tower. They are now long-gone as part of the major Barangaroo redevelopment project which has gentrified that part of the harbour.
The unusual geography is the result of river valleys being flooded by a rise in sea levels between 18,000 and 6,000 years ago. Today nine rivers and over 100 creeks flow into the harbour basin.
Taken from aboard a floatplane - this was the furthest east that we went, although I saw other floatplanes flying much further to the east.
Inner Harbour, Sydney
This view looks east over the world-famous Harbour Bridge into what I would call the inner harbour beyond.
Visible islands include Goat Island just beyond the bridge and in the far distance Cockatoo, Spectacle and Snapper Islands with the Parramatta river beyond them.
Beyond the left (southern) bridge piers can be seen the old container terminal and the Sydney Harbour Control Tower. They are now long-gone as part of the major Barangaroo redevelopment project which has gentrified that part of the harbour.
The unusual geography is the result of river valleys being flooded by a rise in sea levels between 18,000 and 6,000 years ago. Today nine rivers and over 100 creeks flow into the harbour basin.
Taken from aboard a floatplane - this was the furthest east that we went, although I saw other floatplanes flying much further to the east.