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Cloudy Days on Foot Through Sydney

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An ornate fountain with bronze statues in the foreground, and a large gothic cathedral behind it under an overcast sky.

Sydney under low grey cloud, and we walked it anyway. Started in Hyde Park at the Archibald Fountain, where the spray off Apollo's group blew sideways with the wind and a bronze turtle spat its own small arc into the pool. St Mary's Cathedral sat behind it, spires disappearing into the overcast whenever the mist thickened.

From there down through the CBD — past the Thomas Mort statue on its marble base, then the old sandstone government buildings squeezed in under the glass towers, which is a strange sight from Truckee, where nothing is that old and nothing is that tall.

Ended at Circular Quay, which is the ferry hub for the whole harbour — routes fanning out to Manly, Taronga Zoo, Kirribilli, Lane Cove. The Opera House first, umbrellas at the Opera Bar dripping and mostly empty, then around the point for the Harbour Bridge. One of the yellow-and-green ferries, the Collaroy, crossed under the arch heading out, probably the Manly run. Rain never quite committed either way. A wedding party was posing on the quay wall in it regardless, the dress hem already wet.

A large bronze fountain with statues, spraying water, stands before a gothic cathedral and trees under an overcast sky.A bronze statue of a man on a pedestal stands in a lush green park with tall trees and distant buildings.An ornate brown building with a green dome next to a modern skyscraper under a grey sky.The Sydney Opera House with its white shell-like roofs under a cloudy sky, with a waterfront promenade in the foreground.A ferry on the water with the Sydney Harbour Bridge and city skyline under an overcast sky.A city skyline with numerous skyscrapers rises behind a curving waterfront promenade and dark water under a cloudy sky.

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