The view at breakfast...frankly I was much more comfortable being where I was near the door than where Hans was. He cheekily threw his leg over the side of the balcony which absolutely chilled me to the bone! I'm no good with heights...
We finally made it to Circular Quay which is the place for The Sydney Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, The Rocks and the ship that was to take us on a lunch cruise on the harbour
The Overseas Passenger Terminal is also at Circular Quay and a quite attractive ship happened to be in port. A fabulous place to dock with The Bride on one side and the Opera House the other.
This was our Sydney Tall Ships lunch cruise boat. It was built around 1940 in Finland
A couple of happy campers!
We motored out to Rose bay...
A Sydney Ferry and the Prime Minister's Sydney residence at Kirribili House both in the background
Hans seemingly completely oblivious to the gravity drying antics of the two gals behind him...
Of course the crew encouraged 'audience participation'...
...and Gabby and Hans managed to set the sails so we could glide back to port under wind power
The Skipper. Actually the crew were excellent, good natured and nothing was too much trouble
"As the Manly Ferry cuts it's way to Circular Quay"..search for the song "Reckless" by the Aussie 80's band Australian Crawl...actually here is the video clip: Reckless
BBQ lunch...not bad!
Fort Denison or Pinchgut Island...one of the places you would've seen fireworks fired from on New Year's Eve...
Turning around under The Bridge with the The Rocks and the city in the background.
After the cruise we went to the Museum of Contemporary Art at the Rocks. There was an excellent interactive exhibition by the Mexican artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Now, that evening we went on a ghost tour through the Rocks which was great except my phone battery went flat and I have no photos but I took some with Gabby's phone. The Ghost Host was excellent and right on cue the thunder and lightning came to make it just a little bit creepier. Hans slipped on the wet footpath which was not good at all - luckily he fell on his bad wrist he broke in Italy!!
Can you see any faces in these windows....? These were place where spirits had been seen in the past...
One of the places we visited was the Sydney Observatory where one of our fellow tourists swears she heard a gurgling sound which could've been the creating of a murdered young sailor who met his end at that same spot in the 19th century. In the end it was a great night and finished up at a pub with Arthur who worked for Google. We had an interesting chat to him and then we walked home...a big day!
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