Royal Botanic Garden & Mrs Macquarie's Chair
Mrs Macquarie's Chair (Royal Botanic Garden / The Domain)
The spot where the Opera House and bridge share one frame
- Hours
- Gardens daily 7am to around sunset (7:30pm in October, 8pm in November). Mrs Macquarie's Chair is outside the gates and always accessible
- Tickets
- Free
- Address
- Through the gardens behind the Opera House and round Farm Cove to the tip of the point; the chair sits on Mrs Macquaries Road just outside the garden gates
Enter the gardens behind the Opera House, follow the seawall round Farm Cove, and at the point you reach a bench cut into the sandstone in 1810 for the governor's wife. From here the Opera House sits in front of the Harbour Bridge, the exact postcard shot. The gardens on the way are free, with big shade trees and lawns to flop on. It's a popular sunset spot, and since the chair is outside the garden gates you can still reach it after they close.