Sydney New Year's Eve: Midnight fireworks the best show in town
Reg Mombassa, the artist behind Sydney's 2013 New Year's Eve, said he wanted to use this year's fireworks to look inside people's heads.
But before he painted the sky with an absurdist vision of celestial shapes and movement, what people were thinking was as clear as the day that had burned bright and long. Sydney was a city getting ready to celebrate, closely, together.
By the early morning on December 31, the prime spots were completely full of people in outdoor chairs congratulating themselves on their early thinking. By mid-afternoon, many more were being turned away.
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Eight areas around the Royal Botanic Gardens, Circular Quay and the north shore were full by 5pm and closed to more people, a spokeswoman for the Transport Management Centre said.
Visitors were being turned away from Blues Point Reserve, which looked like ''tent city'', local residents said. Those heading to the reserve at McMahons Point were being redirected to Bradfield Park under the Harbour Bridge at Kirribilli.
Quoted newspaper The Sydney Morning Herald
