Friday January 26th is Australia Day, the 219th anniversary of the day that European settlers landed at Sydney Cove.

It’s a public holiday all around Australia, and there will be a lot of activities at Southbank. I’ll be there taking photos for a big report that I will publish on Monday (it will take me all weekend to get it just right).

The picture at the top of this article is of the artificial beach at Southbank.You can click on the picture to see it on the flickr photo-sharing website, or to see a map showing exactly where I took it.
Read more to see a bigger version of the picture.

Another popular thing to do on Australia Day is to listen to Triple J’s Hottest 100 on the radio, where they count down the 100 most popular songs of the year before.

What will you be doing on Australia Day? If you aren’t from Australia, what do you do when you have a big public holiday? Let me know in the comments.