Oh dear... It's been such a long time since the last post... My bad... Haha... Been travelling here and there for work purposes... Penang, and now in Kota Kinabalu... Well, gonna hope to post more, but with the slow upload speed (sad as I am as a telco engineer), doubt will be posting so fast...
Once we got of George St., we decided to go for a tour! Ya, a tour! It was a walk tour, costed us AU$25... Well, it was quite OK for me, since we manage to get a bit of Sydney's history...
The Rocks
This is supposedly where it all started. In summary, the Brits wanted to put their prisoners some where (apparently they were having a shortage of prisons), and the American was getting their independence, so, they were looking for a new place to "relocate" their felons... And to cut the story short, they found Sydney, and hence it became a place for the prisoners to be "shipped" to. The Rocks is basically the place where to prisoners community (yes, they had their own community) was, while the officials, wardens & colonists stayed on the other side of town. Kinda hard to imagine, a prison town....
[a wall drawing showing the history of Sydney]
[Right pix: The prisoners stay on the right side of the street, hence the older buildings while modern ones are on the left]
[Top left: A wharf converted to business building; Other pix: Sculpture depicting the three main group of Sydney's early residents - the colonists, the warden and the prisoner]
[Right pix: Each pew has a number engraved to it]
[Right pix: "I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD" - JESUS]
[to be continued...]
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