An Aussie Icon

Leaving the conference on Sunday afternoon, we headed left and found ourselves at the botanical gardens.

This statue was just inside the gates and further around on the statue was an explanation. 

Our own Captain Phillip.

Then I spied this and I took a photo as I thought it would be the closest I would get to our Opera House.

Silly me!

The Conservatory of Music to the left but I took the photo for the flowers. (and in the middle of the background is another Aussie icon, the famous coathanger!)

Another ten minutes of wandering thru the gardens and there it was in all its glory and just look at the tourists! I didn't realise we would be so close.