We’ve concluded that one of our leaders, back in Bristol, would have ‘issues’ with the native wildlife if residing in Oz for any length of time. We strolled around the Australian Museum on Monday and viewed features all about Australian wildlife, coupled with an excellent visit to Taronga Zoo, the irrational fear of eight-legged little beasties (with sharp pointy teeth) suddenly becomes very real. Dave doesn’t know this but I’ve started checking the toilet bowl for Red-Back spiders…
Taronga Zoo is set in the harbour with stunning views across to the harbour bridge and Opera house. The only down side was we forgot to do the detour to see the Tazmanian devil. Ah well, we hear they’re all gonna be extinct soon anyway!
Highlight of Sydney so far has to be climbing the harbour bridge this morning. We have very cheesy photos to prove it, complete with silly hat and wind-swept hair. It all got a bit sickly however, as we ended up on a trip with 3 honeymooning couples, share the love people.
The climb itself was remarkably easier than expected with the view from all angles simply incredible. At the summit the weather was really quite pleasant with little wind and no evidence of frost nip at all! Although, 4 layers and gloves may have helped…
After lunch we pottered over to Bondi beach, turned out to be a journey slightly more epic than the flight over. We assumed ‘Bondi Junction’ station was close to the beach. But no, it’s no where near it!! Located it in the end and had ice cream whilst watching the surf dudes.
Loving Sydney, off out of town to the Blue Mountains tomorrow, up at 8am so time to go.
Oh, we saw Billy Elliot musical last night as well, which was nice!
