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| Here are both the two bluffs marking the entrance to Sydney Harbor. It was too dark to photograph at 5:30 AM when we sailed into the harbor. |
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| Even though it was a weekday afternoon, the folks were on the beach and surfing. |
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| The tour allowed us to spend some time on the famous Bondi Beach. |
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| The Opera House was part of a design competition, and the winner was announced in 1957 (the year of my birth). |
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| It was supposed to take about 3 years and around 3 million to construct. It took 14 years and over 100 million to build. |
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| The "sails" are constructed of concrete and covered in over 1 million roof tiles of varying shades of cream (no white) in matte and glossy finish. White would have made it impossible to view on a sunny day. |
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| The construction of the roof was a difficult mathematical puzzle, but they figured it out by using strips of concrete taken from spherical shapes. |
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| To make sure it had great acoustics, each of the five performance spaces (opera, musical, and 3 smaller spaces) are constructed of varying types of wood. |
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| The windows in the Opera House are constructed at a 45 degree angle. This prevents them from being black holes at night. |
