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Shadows outside the café and loo

The topiary fills in what used to be a dock and is cut to represent waves

Very wide-angle view

HELC members fancied a penthouse here

Mystical curves

The barrier or beached whales?

Barrier and waves

DLR train

DLR station

Pontoon Dock

Discarded daffodil

We moved on to coffee in a boat moored at the end of the runway at the Docklands Airport.   I stayed outside and took some pictures

Olympic Rings

Tate and Lyle Factories

University of East London

 

Canary Wharf in the distance

Airport

Wonderful sky

Boat restaurant reflections

Bit of dilapidation

Do not park wet bikes here

One for Steve

Reflections

We moved on to the Olympic Site looking at the many venues on the way

Crab Apple at Olympic Site

Olympic Stadium from the viewing point

Olympic Sculpture.   It could be a very large meerkat guarding the stadium.

Designed by Anish Kapoor

The 115m tall piece, named the Arcelor Mittal Orbit is 22m higher than New York's Statue of Liberty.

Men at work

Wind turbine an elegant structure

Stadium detail

Pansies in a planter

Reflections behind the Porsche showroom;  we did not buy one

Returned to the bus and went to the shopping centre for lunch.

Views of the Olympic park from the top of John Lewis (through the glass)