Australia 2008 – Sydney
After leaving Ria in Cairns we headed south on a flight to Sydney. We had a car rental reserved, a hotel for two nights, and a flight out in a week. The car rental went smoothly and the hotel was right downtown. I think parking for the car cost more than the car rental – a convenient but expensive trip from the airport to the hotel.
We spent the two days seeing some sights around the city, from the ships at the maritime museum to the the Taronga Zoo and the market at The Rocks.
At the maritime museum there is a replica of Captain Cooks Endeavour, a decommissioned battle ship (The Vampire), and a ramp down to where there was supposed to be a submarine. They told us it was out for service, where does one take an old submarine for service?
The replica Endeavour has travelled around the world, following some of Captain Cooks voyages, and even visited Vancouver.
Inside the officer’s quarters was a bit cramped. Either they were very short or had back problems by the end of their journey.
I couldn’t find a cup of coffee for breakfast that didn’t involve espresso and/or steamed milk (just go straight to McDonald’s for drip coffee), but Matthew found the perfect lemon meringue pie at a restaurant in Darling harbour for lunch.
We took a ferry to the Taronga Zoo to get a better view of/from the harbour. Matthew wants to try and build the Sydney Opera House with Lego.
They have koala at this zoo too… and familiar looking langurs.
We left Sydney for a few days to travel up through the Blue Mountains and did a drive loop to the south. I will cover that trip in more detail in future posts. When we returned to Sydney we spent a night at Bondi beach before our flight out.
We had a few minutes at Bondi Beach in the morning before we left for Brisbane and saw… an ATM (We are told the locals pronounce it “atmuh”) walking along the beach.
November 19th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Great post but it seems a couple of the pictures are having issues, as in they aren’t there.