Sculptures By The Sea

With a weekend free (very rare for us it feels at the moment) James and I decided that we would take the kids to see Sculptures by the Sea. We hadn't been to this before but the kids did enjoy the sculptures in the Blue Mountains when I took them so we thought they might like this. We made a day of it - drove to Circular Quay, walked to the bus stop then caught the bus out to Bondi. 

The kids were pretty excited about the bus ride, and even more excited when it was a bendy bus! Daniel wanted to sit next to the bend. The other 2 sat down the end of the bus with James. I was with Daniel - the bend was the highlight for me as a kid too.

Once we arrived we found a park and had lunch and a quick play. It was a pretty windy day! 

Then it was sculptures time. We didn't really have a plan, we just wandered around the different sculptures, took photos and went to the next one that people wanted to see.

I spy 3 kiddies

Grumpy Babies, Happy Eliza

I loved the design of this one - it was like a whale's heart but made out of ply wood.

Eliza loved this on because it was pink.

But this one was my favourite! It was a periscope that looked down to the waves crashing on the rocks below. I could have sat there and watched it all day!

I did like the design idea of this one. Kinda reminded me of the old cameras with their long bendy lenses.

This one of the waves was a great hide and seek spot (although resulted in rust getting on the clothes).

Daniel's favourite one was some bamboo huts that were designed into spheres but they were large enough that you could sit inside them. They kinda looked like bubbles that had landed on the ground.

Alexander's favourite was a rubbish one which was large sculptures of scrunched up chewing gum wrappers which we pretended to 'throw' into the bin. They were way too heavy to lift up though.

Once we got to the cloud frame, I had a lovely idea that we could get a nice photo of the kids in it. Was that the wrong idea or what! Daniel lost it at Eliza, Eliza got upset with Daniel, Alexander cracked it, I got frustrated. It was a bit of a disaster. So I took a photo of just the frame. 

Daniel wasn't very happy about that. Fortunately James kept his cool and he managed to talk to Daniel and help settle him down.

Alexander was keen to get a photo with another statue - matchy matchy.

 The kids slowly settled so I took a photo of them in the frame. Still not what I had envisioned but oh well.

This one Alexander really liked too - the wheels actually spun so he was entertained. 

With all the different sculptures they had signs on them saying if you could touch them or not. Of course, if you could touch them, then they would touch them. No matter what the sculpture was.

This place is one of Tim and Rach's favourite places so we sent them a little video wishing they were here.

We walked along the headland and liked looking at a few more sculptures but the kids were getting pretty tired.

The pencil behind us was James' favourite one.

I also liked this one - Thru.

We then hopped on a bus to go to Bondi Beach to get a Boost Juice. Unfortunately we got on the wrong bus so hopped off at Bondi Junction and got a Boost there instead. Alexander was pretty excited to have his first Boost!

A nice way to finished the day! We'll definitely try and visit the sculptures again in future years.