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Sydney’s definitely a pretty place, but for someone who has lived here from a long time, it’s easy to get used to it.

This is a view that is always quite spectacular though.

After work, if I finish early enough, I get off the train at Milson’s Point, and make my way down to a jetty to catch a ferry home.

After getting off at Milson’s Point train station, one makes one’s way downhill to the jetty. You see the harbour through the frame of the Harbour Bridge, and when you finally get to the jetty you get a 180 degree panorama of Sydney Harbour.

I’ve tried to take a panoramic photo, but on a crappy computer screen it’s not the same at all. (I’ve actually tried to put the photos all together on a YouTube video. See it here.)

Seeing the enormous sweep of the harbour from a high vantage point, and getting closer to it, and the harbour bridge reaching across it… no matter how far you stand back you can’t get it all into focus. I haven’t captured the quiet majesty of it in my photos (or this post!) but I console myself that no one really could.

Also, cruising along the harbour on the ferry in sunny weather is a nice way to get home. I always feel priveliged when I see how many tourists take the ferry every day to enjoy the view. – They’ve travelled from other countries to take the same ferry that I take every day of the working week on my way home from work.