Brad Heap » Photos http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog One kiwi's news and views on politics, science, computers, god, religion, and other ramblings from Sydney, Australia Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:11:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Photos: Australia Day 2012 Sydney http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2012/01/photos-australia-day-2012-sydney/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2012/01/photos-australia-day-2012-sydney/#comments Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:33:10 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=5254 Continue reading →]]> Today is Australia Day. Despite the heavy rain this morning I went down to the harbour to see some of the events. The highlight of the day (for the second year in a row) was the display by the Australian Defence Forces.

How to get a boat into Australia - load it up with beer, a bbq, and paint the aussie flag on the front. P1020964 Ferrython Spectator craft following the ferrys IMHO the best dressed ferry Spectators along the foreshore Sydney Cove 224 years since the arrival of the first fleet P1030033 Australia - koalas, kangaroos, and Holden P1030039 P1030054 RAN Sea King Helicopter P1030066 P1030072 Police boat P1030080 The biggest Australian flag I have ever seen RAAF F/A-18 Hornets P1030097 So fast, so low P1030102 P1030103 P1030110 Police Helicopter over Circular Quay P1030125 Australian Army Red Berets P1030130 Darling Harbour at 7pm SAMSUNG SAMSUNG

]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2012/01/photos-australia-day-2012-sydney/feed/ 0 Photos: NRL Grand Final Day #nrl http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/10/photos-nrl-grand-final-day-nrl/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/10/photos-nrl-grand-final-day-nrl/#comments Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:55:43 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=4733 Continue reading →]]> I’ve just got home from spending the day at the NRL Grand Final. What an awesome day despite the Warriors losing the NRL Grand Final. This was the biggest sporting event I had been to – 81,988 people in the crowd.

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]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/10/photos-nrl-grand-final-day-nrl/feed/ 1 Photos: Featherdale Wildlife Park, Blue Mountains and Circular Quay http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-featherdale-wildlife-park-blue-mountains-and-circular-quay/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-featherdale-wildlife-park-blue-mountains-and-circular-quay/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:04:33 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=4289 One big long day. A lot of fun. And a good way to get mind off all the bad news from this past week.

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]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-featherdale-wildlife-park-blue-mountains-and-circular-quay/feed/ 0 Photos: Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 in Sydney http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-queen-elizabeth-and-queen-mary-2-in-sydney/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-queen-elizabeth-and-queen-mary-2-in-sydney/#comments Wed, 23 Feb 2011 14:30:31 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.brad.net.nz/blog/?p=4277 Continue reading →]]> On Tuesday both the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary 2 super cruise ships were in Sydney. I went down to the harbour to get some photos after work. I have held off posting the photos for the last 24 hours as concern for people affected by the earthquake in Christchurch is far more important.

Both ships are absolutely huge. But what I was surprised by is that they were not as big as I was expecting. I think these days man’s quest for bigger, stronger, faster, further is almost complete so we are so used to seeing big things that they don’t take your breathe away as much as in the past. Having said that these ships dwarf everything else.

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]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-queen-elizabeth-and-queen-mary-2-in-sydney/feed/ 0 Photos: Hunter Valley and Central Coast NSW Roadtrip http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-hunter-valley-and-central-coast-nsw/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-hunter-valley-and-central-coast-nsw/#comments Thu, 10 Feb 2011 09:58:41 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=4253 Continue reading →]]> I haven’t been very well this past week. So to cheer me up two of my friends took me up into the Hunter Valley (where I had to play sober driver). From there we worked our way through to Lake Macquarie and then onto Norah Head. An awesome one day road trip.

Fire Danger: Extreme P1160905 P1160935 P1160995 P1160918 Lake Macquarie P1160975 A real aussie dirt road The wildlife P1160991 P1170043 P1160988 My favourite shot of the entire trip P1160907 P1170005 P1160992 Norah Head Lighthouse at sunset Blue Tongue Beer Factory

]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/02/photos-hunter-valley-and-central-coast-nsw/feed/ 0 Photos: RAAF F18 Hornet and Qantas A380 over Sydney Harbour http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-raaf-f18-hornet-and-qantas-a380-over-sydney-harbour/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-raaf-f18-hornet-and-qantas-a380-over-sydney-harbour/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 06:06:13 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=4231 Happy Australia Day

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]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-raaf-f18-hornet-and-qantas-a380-over-sydney-harbour/feed/ 0 Photos: Skillet in Sydney http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-skillet-in-sydney/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-skillet-in-sydney/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 12:45:58 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=4218 I can’t hear anything, I can say anything cause I screamed so much, and I smell really bad after too much mosh pit. But Skillet are awesome!

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]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-skillet-in-sydney/feed/ 0 Photos: Sydney New Year’s Eve Fireworks http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-sydney-new-years-eve-fireworks/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-sydney-new-years-eve-fireworks/#comments Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:14:43 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=4114 Happy New Year!

The best new year’s eve ever.

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]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2011/01/photos-sydney-new-years-eve-fireworks/feed/ 0 Red Moon Rising – Lunar Eclipse over Coogee Beach, Sydney http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2010/12/red-moon-rising-lunar-eclipse-over-coogee-beach-sydney/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2010/12/red-moon-rising-lunar-eclipse-over-coogee-beach-sydney/#comments Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:59:15 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=4037 At the last minute tonight I decided to go out and capture the end of the full lunar eclipse as the moon rose over Australia.

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]]> http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2010/12/red-moon-rising-lunar-eclipse-over-coogee-beach-sydney/feed/ 0 Photos from North Head, Manly, Sydney http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2010/12/photos-from-north-head-manly-sydney/ http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/2010/12/photos-from-north-head-manly-sydney/#comments Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:34:04 +0000 Brad Heap http://www.bradheap.id.au/blog/?p=3983 Today was a beautiful day in Sydney so I went exploring North Head.

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