A while ago, I snapped a few shots from our roof here in Kirribilli and stitched them into a panorama.
You should really look at the full-res image, (link is on the flickr photo page) but it’s 15megs, so you’ll have to wait a few secs for all the pixels to download.
From right to left, you start by looking South, where the opera house is, and end up looking East at the left side of the image. If you could see past the small bit of land in the distance to the East, you’d be looking at the Tasman Sea and the Pacific Ocean. Usually you just see pictures of the harbor bridge and the opera house, but, really, there’s much more to Sydney.