Sydney Beach Day!

Sydney is all about turf and surf, the big city and the big beaches, all in one, big metro area. Had enough of the concrete canyon, head to the cool coast for some relaxing waves.

Beautiful Bronte beach, iconic oceanside rock pool in the foreground.

Busy, busy, busy. Showering, getting ready. Young and old, everyone goes to the beach.

Everybody into the rock pool.

Australia's coastline is full of sorta-natural swimming pools, contained places to bathe, do laps in salt water next to the ocean. Rocks or sand, take your pick for a base.

Flaunt it if you've got it. Many beaches have their own swim clubs, no age or modesty limit.

Various Views Of The Sydney Harbor Bridge

Almost as big an icon as the Sydney Opera House, the Harbor Bridge looms over the city in all sorts of ways, all sorts of angles. It's worth a wander about to see what the bridge presents.

An iconic view of what's nicknamed, "The Coat Hanger." With equally iconic yellow and green ferry boat.

A little lunch and a bridge, private time from a bench. Girder city. The impressive maze of steel of the city side bridge approach in The Rocks neighborhood.

The leisure fleet is in, a giant cruise ship eases past the bridge to dock downtown.

Looking backward, the skyline is revealed underneath the bridge. Looking for some shut eye. Napping on the bench near the Opera House. "Bridge, is there a bridge?"

Ode to the great Walker Evans, going mighty abstract under the bridge and across the harbor.