To return to images: After Uluru, the Sydney Opera House is probably Australia's greatest landmark, but there were other images of Sydney that remained in my head throughout America.
Back from the water Sydney is just as much the honey-coloured sandstone of old Victorian public buildings
or the engravings the Eora people made in the stone
(This 1.7 metre figure, from the Waratah Track in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, is Baiame, the eastern tribes' 'Sky Father'. The rock is triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone, 220 million years old.)
and then at this time of year there are the Gymea Lilies (Doryanthes excelsa), here photographed at Sydney Uni.
I have often wondered if these had ceremonial significance...
For more information on rock art, see:
Josephine McDonald, Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange.
http://epress.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/whole_book6.pdf
Back from the water Sydney is just as much the honey-coloured sandstone of old Victorian public buildings
or the engravings the Eora people made in the stone
 |
| Poyt448 Peter Woodard, photograph in public domain |
(This 1.7 metre figure, from the Waratah Track in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, is Baiame, the eastern tribes' 'Sky Father'. The rock is triassic Hawkesbury Sandstone, 220 million years old.)
and then at this time of year there are the Gymea Lilies (Doryanthes excelsa), here photographed at Sydney Uni.
I have often wondered if these had ceremonial significance...
For more information on rock art, see:
Josephine McDonald, Dreamtime Superhighway: Sydney Basin Rock Art and Prehistoric Information Exchange.
http://epress.anu.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/whole_book6.pdf
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