Come back and spend more time. There is so much more to see

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

We absolutely will! Lovvvvved it!!

I was lucky enough to be involved in the exhibition of the original sketches of the Opera House 'sails concept' by architect Jorn Utzon. These were basic squiggles on a couple of pieces of paper and had been lost for decades. They were eventually found in the early 1990's amongst junk in a storage room of a city building. It was extraordinary to see the initial vision essentially just a doodle on a scrap of paper that has become a worldwide icon of architecture.

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Wowowowwwowwww! What???? Soooo cool! I was enamored by the entire thing! The construction, his story, the creativity, the end result… A-Z! Loved it!

@planetcountryradio8622

2 ай бұрын

@@pointmysoulnorth The State Library of NSW has the sketches. Here is a link to view online: collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nV2qer7n/GylGDkjJ6J8z0

Try the Pittwater inlet Sydney's hidden gem

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Ohhhhhh NEXT TIME for sure!

i am a sydney local and i dont know if this is well known but i have heard stories that go like this , it may or may not be true. when the comittee charged with selecting the many plans for the opera house were meeting one saturday morning . all plans were on the table , one gent moved his chair back and noticed a set of plans under the table , he reached down and recovered the plans and placed them back on the table . they were the opera house plans.

@pointmysoulnorth

3 ай бұрын

How CRAZY is THAT??? Can you imagine IF that is true… our conversation would be very different if he hadn’t seen them!!

Great video! So glad you loved Sydney. 😍

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Thank YOU for watching! Lovvvvved Sydney and AUS we’ll be back!!

I was lucky enough to experience a dawn entry into Sydney Harbour on the Oriana in 1996. It was breathtaking, and because it was the Oriana maiden voyage, the liner was greeted with the gateway of water spray from the fire boats. It was amazing.

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Sounds extraordinary!! The Harbour is breathtaking alone… with the extra greeting it’s over the top!!

@artistjoh

2 ай бұрын

@@pointmysoulnorth And dawn through the Heads, with the first pink dawn light on the skyscrapers as it crept from their tops to the ground, and then the pink on the sandstone cliffs was stunning. The ship arrived about an hour early so it stopped just outside the heads so we started with Sydney lights, then than lemon-y color come into the east sky, then pinks as the sun got close. The Captain was able to choose the perfect moment to enter the heads. Sydney-siders with boats arose early and hundreds of small boats came out to greet the ship and sail into Circular Quay with us. It was the second ship named Oriana, and the previous ship had been a hugely popular vessel, and the entry of the new Oriana was highly anticipated. Sydney has a long tradition of greeting special ships. In the early days it was called the city of lights because in the year 1810 people hung paper lanterns outside their houses to greet the arrival of the ship carrying Governor Macquarie. Back then there were cannons firing to let Sydney know the ship was coming up the harbor and for people to light their lanterns. I am sure it is how he started his love affair with the colony, and why he and his wife were to become known as the father and mother of the nation and responsible for building so much, despite the British government back in London wanting him to stop spending money they didn't want to spend.

Not a lot of non-Australians know that the actor Paul Hogan from Crocodile Dundee fame spent his pre-film Star years on the painting crew at the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Wow! Really? That’s such a cool fun fact!!!

@judileeming1589

2 ай бұрын

@@pointmysoulnorth oh no so embarrassing 🙈 not the Opera House the Sydney Harbour Bridge! I will go and edit that.

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Either way sooooo cool!

Sydney loves you right back. 💚💛 Please come visit us again. ! I've been to Arizona - and loved it !

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Awe! Thank you for sharing your beautiful city with us!!

You’re welcome😮e .so happy you loved my city ❤️😢❤️😎

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

❤❤❤

Great video! I agree with your comments about the Bridge Climb and the Opera House tour. I have done both when family came to visit. I agree it was worth it, although the Bridge Climb was AU$100+ when I did it then. You need to return to Sydney because there are more places for you to explore! Love your enthusiasm!

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

DEF want to go back! We loved it! Sooooo much of this world to explore!!

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

THANK YOU for following along on this wonky journey!! 🥰🌏❤️

Area of Sydney = 12,368 km² "We saw all of it!"

@pointmysoulnorth

Ай бұрын

It FELT like all as we walked EVERYWHERE 😅😂

There are some bridgeclimb packages that go all the way over from what I understand. If you're lucky you'll see the resident seal on the steps into the harbour

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

😳😳😳 I didn’t research that far! Half way and back was ALOT!! Loved it though!

@ForTheBirbs

2 ай бұрын

As a Sydneysider I love watching videos of visitors reactions. Cheers

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

@@ForTheBirbsthank you for sharing your amazing city!!!

Well, you have to come back... Fly down😊

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Yesssss!

Clearly you will have to fly over and visit again, so that you have a chance to see and do all the things that Sydney and the rest of Australia offers. You have not yet scratched the surface. Make sure that you allow enough time, remembering that Australia is big, as big as continental USA, with BIG distances between major cities. For example, Sydney (capital of the state of New South Wales) to Brisbane (capital of the state of Queensland) by car is 917km or about 900km by flying, Brisbane to Cairns (for the Great Barrier Reef) flying is another more than 1600km, over to Alice Springs (for the real outback) is more than 2000km flying, Alice Springs to Darwin (capital of the Northern Territory) is nearly 1500km flying, Darwin to Perth (capital of the state of Western Australia) flying is close to 4000km, Perth to Sydney on the Indian Pacific luxury passenger train is close to 4000km (it takes 4 days) or about 4 hours flying, Sydney to Melbourne (capital of the state of Victoria) flying is about 850km, Melbourne to Hobart (capital of the state of Tasmania) flying is nearly 800km, back to Melbourne flying 800km, Melbourne to Adelaide (capital of South Australia) is nearly 700km, Adelaide to Canberra (national capital of Australia) is about 1100km., back to Sydney flying is about 280km or over 3 hours by car. And after those km, you have only now just scratched the surface of this wide brown land. Just in Sydney you should allow for at least 7 days, preferably 10 to 12 days. With those distances between major cities, you can see why we prefer to fly.

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

COMPLETELY AGREE! The best part of this World Cruise is the exposure to the areas so we can determine which ones we WANT to go back to!

When are you coming back to Sydney.....as soooooooooooo much more to see

@pointmysoulnorth

Ай бұрын

We are on the Ultimate World Cruise so still traveling until September so perhaps in 2025 ❤❤❤ we’d love to come back we Lovvvved it!!

@warwickbaker2915

Ай бұрын

@@pointmysoulnorth Be fun to watch what your husband and yourself, explore Sydney on your next video. If you like, I can recommend an excellent video, done by an Brazilian/American couple who are world travellers, such as yourselves

@warwickbaker2915

Ай бұрын

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@warwickbaker2915

Ай бұрын

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Never too many pictures

@pointmysoulnorth

3 ай бұрын

THAT is good to hear! THANK YOU!

@barbarawalkowiak5763

3 ай бұрын

You are very brave to do that bridge climb ! I got nervous watching you .Beautiful pictures.

@pointmysoulnorth

3 ай бұрын

@@barbarawalkowiak5763 thank you!! I really do feel like fear teaches us something so it’s purposeful but yowza - it’s no joke! They do an incredible job securing and comforting you before! Loved it!!

umm.. no.. not ship sails... its designed from the segments of an orange... when aligned they all for a sphere.

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

Understand but the esthetic was inspired by his father’s love for sailing!

@user-sm2pk8xf1l

2 ай бұрын

Umm.. yes.. Ship Sails, the design inspiration for the sails is from ships sails not an orange. the example of the orange is just to demonstrate that if formed together, the sails would form a sphere. Leslie is correct.

@pointmysoulnorth

2 ай бұрын

@@user-sm2pk8xf1lI could see the orange segment theory… but … 😊

@artistjoh

2 ай бұрын

Both are true. The architectural visual inspiration is sails on the harbor, but the engineering solution was segments of a sphere. The media often refers to an orange as a memorable way to visualize a sphere. However this was more of a metaphor that people could relate to, but as an architect/engineer Utzon was working from the geometric strength inherent in a shere. Utzon often spoke about his love of sails on the water. He had a family relationship with sailboats, and when he looked at Sydney, it was the sails on the harbor that most impressed him and gave him an emotional connection with the city and his earliest conception for the building was an interpretation of the sails. The segments of a sphere came much later, once he had won the competition, and the project was underway. By that point he had discovered that his original visual design was impossible to build, and it took time for him to develop the segments of a sphere idea, and to be able to arrange the segments in such a way as to be visually pleasing. This part of the project took a lot of time because he had to figure out how to fabricate and assemble the sphere segments.. The concrete work inside looks beautiful, but it stems from engineering them to be both as strong and as light as possible, and to interlock together for maximum strength.