Sydney Top 101 to 110 Things To Do

What to do in Sydney?

101 Tour the Sydney Cricket Ground

The SCG - The Sydney Cricket Ground

Visit the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). See the dressing rooms where Australia, the world’s finest, if not best loved, cricket team prepares to vanquish its opponents.

Here's your chance to see this historic venue and killing ground of English Captains before the next one comes to grief. The SCG can hold forty thousand fans. You can picture the scene of hoards of Aussie fans baying for English blood (well...wickets anyway).

The SCG Tour link

102 Water Taxi

Beauty of these little boats is that they can take you where the ferries can't go. Couple of suggestions, Drummoyne Rowers and Banjo Paterson's (yes the poet, yes it’s a restaurant) in Gladesville. Alternatively you could catch the ferry to Doyles at Watsons Bay and water cab it back.

A water taxi ride 'home' might just keep that feeling of well being going a little bit longer. Splitting the fare by travelling in a group is highly recommended.

103 Sydney Film Festival

The Sydney Film Festival for movie buffs and rainy days. Two weeks in June, so it might even be cold.

The Sydney Film Festival link

104 Orpheum Cremorne Cinema

Or you could go for a blockbuster in a traditional setting at Orpheum Cinema in Cremorne on the Lower North Shore just ten minutes past the Sydney Harbour Bridge (Take the Falcon Street turnoff once you've crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge and turn right at the traffic lights). The Orpheum is an old fashioned Cinema with multi-screens but small enough to avoid the huge crowds you get at most large cinemas these days. If you pick the right movie, on the right night, an organ player will arise before you, massage your ears with a synchronicity of sound and descend with a wave. You are allowed to applaud even though it may seem odd making noise in a cinema. The Orpheum is a beautiful old place voted best cinema in Sydney in 2004. Less than ample parking around the back so allow yourself time or catch the bus.

Link to Orpheum Cinema in Cremorne

105 Museum of Contemporary Art

The MCA - Museum of Contemporary Art is conveniently located at Circular Quay.

Click for a link to MCA web site:

106 Canoe Middle Harbour

If walking doesn’t appeal how about a paddle about Sydney's Middle Harbour? If you can, time it so the tide is behind you. Always volunteer to do the steering, that way you sit at the back and can take it easy!

Don't forget the sunscreen, hat and drinking water. Your Middle Harbour adventure commences at the Spit Bridge. Don't be put off if you're not a brilliant swimmer - life jackets are provided as are tours and training.

Sydney Harbour Kayaks Links - Middle Harbour

107 History Trail

Discover more about Sydney's humble beginnings - follow link(s) to museums

Vaucluse

History may not be the main reason you're here but Vaucluse House gives you an excuse to travel to one of the richest suburbs in Australia. Admire the high walls, security fences, and blue alarm lights along the way. Vaucluse House has 'tearooms' and you can take a stroll down to Nielsen Park when you’re done.

Vaucluse House - follow links to museums then Vaucluse House

108 Hey Babe Take a Walk On The Wild Side (Oxford Street, Sydney)

For the people watchers amongst you a walk down Oxford Street close to the centre of Sydney might raise an eye brow - start from the City end head for Taylor's Square - grab yourself a coffee somewhere and watch the wild life sequined/leather/whatever pass. For the more adventuress of you there's drag acts and other forms of 'entertainment' to be found. A huge Gay and Lesbian Mardi-Gras parade traditionally takes places in February/March. The parade dances its way around Oxford Street and the surrounding area - for more information visit the site below:

Link to Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Sydney

For a more seedier atmosphere there's Kings Cross and for more arty feel try Newtown just outside the city proper.

109 National Gallery and Parliament House Canberra

Sydney is NOT Australia's official capital. I know I can’t believe it either. I'm no historian but apparently Canberra was chosen to keep Melbourne less miserable? :)

Perhaps unsurprisingly the roads are pretty good but you could/should/perhaps/maybe/might [sense my uncertainty here] consider an over night stay.

Things to do in Canberra

110 Madonna's Bra - AKA ANZAC Bridge

AKA ANZAC Bridge does NOT span the Tasman to New Zealand. Madonna's Bra is just a nice looking bridge. Best seen from Blackwattle Bay (with the Sydney Harbour Bridge in the background) . The ANZAC Bridge is the attraction rather than its surrounds so please don’t bother walking over it.

Link for pictures and more info on the ANZAC Bridge

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