Sydney New Year's Eve

Over 3000kg of fireworks worth $4 million, 11000 shells and another 10 000 comets, 75th birthday of the Harbour bridge and over 1 million people. That's just something which makes up the New Year's event which is considered the best in the World. To combine this with the facts, that I had a sleeping place in the walking distance from the lookout point, I was about to spend the New Year with my good friends and I didn't have to wear the winter coat on to copy with -20degrees weather, I thought this was going to be one of the biggest nights in my life so far.

Well to boost the things up a little bit we drove through the local alcohol store, liquorland to get some of the necessary supplies. We wanted to be on the lookout early to get a spot and we arrived there around 11:30am to find out that there was already heaps of people crowding the lawns around the river. Well we reserved ourselves a quite big spot because we were expecting around 15-20 people to join our group. It was hard time for four of us to keep all the greedy latecomers to stay away from the space which we reserved with our widespread blankets.

The officialities started with the cannon of fort denison at 1pm and there was always something going on at every hour. Most of this were plane flyovers, including tiger moth and the spits special. We had some chicken with rolls and always poshy crackers with cheese for snack while waiting the big bangs to come. The girls had made some shopping as well and had bought 12 bottles of passion pop which they used in the huge punch they made in one of the iceboxes. The amazing thing was that even though there was masses of people everywhere I couldn't see a single fight or angry looking people whatsoever. Everybody seemed to be really happy and even the security which was all around seemed to be really understanding for all the things that started to happen when evening went further and people got a bit more relaxed. One of the most funniest thing was Alex, a guy from UK who tried to sit on one of the iceboxes just to find out that it isn't strong enough for sitting and crashed right through. His balance wasn't perfect at that point anymore and it took him quite a while to get up and find his pants wet from icy water. At this point some of the families around our spot started to move away a little bit.

The fireworks started to kick in around 9pm when the children's firework was held. This lonely was really beautiful and could beat any fireworks I had seen so far. It was soon over though and I was looking forward for the big one to come in at midnight. It finally came and it was huge, lots of fireworks in three different shooting spots and the whole harbour bridge lit of shiny explosions. Hard to describe here anything but it was big, colourful, loud and on the contrary to my previous solo-travels I was happy to share this moment with someone. Happy new year everyone.