Day 3 in Sydney: Art, Royal Botanic Garden, State Library, and Sydney Opera

We started the day walking across the Sydney Harbour Bridge, which offers pretty stunning views of the harbor.

Afterward we visited Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art.

 

 

The Royal Botanic Garden, established in 1816, includes trees, shrubs, and flowers from all over the world and provides stunning views of Sydney Harbour.

The State Library of New South Wales includes the 1906 sandstone Mitchell Library. Inside the foyer, a floor mosaic replicates the Tasman Map drawn by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in the 1640s and now held in the library's collection. It depicts the Australian continent, still without an east coast, and its northern extremity joined to Papua New Guinea. There is a bar on the rooftop of the library.

We ended the day by taking in an evening performance of Verdi's Aida at the Sydney Opera House, but no pictures to post, unfortunately.