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Sydney, Australia
Sydney is the most livable city we have ever visited. It has better and more fun shopping than anywhere we have been. The place is friendly, clean, safe and reasonably inexpensive. It has a lot of appeal as a place to visit or live.
I had my second navigation
lesson on the bridge. Here's one of the cadet officers plotting our position
from my measurements. He said having been at sea for so much of his life
it was his first time to Tulsa. Thank God for GPS.
I got up at 5:30 in the morning so
I could see our approach to Sidney. although it is a beautiful boat ride
into the harbor, it didn't come close to compensating for the loss of
sleep.
Sidney sent a fireboat to give us
a warm welcome.
The famous Sidney Opera
House.
Circular Quay, the centerpiece of
the harbor.
One of the many shopping malls before
the crowds got there.
The six
pictures above show the exterior and some of the interior details of one
of the more beautiful shopping malls in Sidney.
At lunch.....guess what?
More salads and fish!!!
The old British influence
on many of the buildings is very strong.
The first QE II.
Donna can't stay away from those
burgers.
We had dinner in a lovely restaurant
on Circular Quay on the opposite side from where the ship was docked.
Just before a romantic
dinner on Circular Quay.
On the second day we
were in Sidney it rained. We took a tourist bus on a two hour trip around
the city. It was a lovely day to spend inside the bus.