Sydney Olympic Park & Bicentennial Park

"Re-opened on 15 September 2001 to celebrate the first anniversary of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, this park is the site of the Olympic Cauldron and other significant features that pay homage to the Olympic & Paralympic Games movement."

"The Cauldron of the XXVII Olympiad is now located a few hundred meters from where it burned in the Olympic Stadium. The names of the 1,972 Olympic medallists and 2,267 Paralympic medallists at the Sydney Games are recorded on gold, silver, and bronze nameplates at the base of the Cauldron. A shallow dome of white marble commemorates the first Olympic Games of the modern era, held in Athens in 1896." (Source: signage in the Park)

The Cauldron is now a fountain:
Here's a close up of one of the nameplates at the base of the Cauldron:
More nameplates:
Super Mom, Gretel!

The Ring Walk is an elevated oval built to provide a lookout and sanctuary for the many endangered Green & Golden Bell Frogs that live in the Olympic Park:

At Bicentennial Park, Bronte & I played a little Chess. SOMEHOW she won! *wink*

Also, at Bicentennial Park, we saw these very cute baby ducks, AND we fed the ducks and EELS that were in the pond!

Bicentennial Park was opened to the public in 1988, to commemorate 200 years of European settlement in Australia. During the 2000 Olympic games, Bicentennial Park gained world-wide exposure as over 500,000 people travelled through the park on their way to the Games.