I'M IN AUSTRALIA!!!
(4MAR) Finally after a long over night flight I finally made it down here to Sydney. With very careful planning before the trip started I found my hotel with ease. I checked in and began walking around anxious to get this vacation started.
I figured I'd get the basics out of the way first and just wondered down town. I got the pictures of the Opera House and the bridge as everyone does. I finally associated the terrain of the maps I had been looking at for the past month to understand what I was looking at. I found a nice little cafe on one of the piers staring right at the opera house for my first dinner down under.
(5MAR) Obviously the first place I was getting to today was the zoo. It is nicely located on the other side of the Sydney Harbor so getting there also knocked out riding a ferry over the harbor. Typical Zoo stuff, but they did have the koalas and kangaroos and platypuses and other local animals. I easily spent all morning and part of the afternoon there and got some great pictures. The koalas slept pretty much all day so getting a good one with them was a little trickier than I imagined.
In the later part of the afternoon I walked around the rest of the inner city and got to the Harbor Bridge. To actually climb the bridge required reservations so I made those for Saturday and just ventured up the pylons which were also a tourist attraction. Got a good bit of history out of it and some great pictures.
(6MAR) The Blue Mountains are neither Blue or Mountains, yet when Australia was discovered they looked blue so hence the name. They are about a 2 hour drive outside of the city and having no car I was forced to book a tour (which wasn't that bad) out there. The tour threw in a couple other stops too that included a wildlife reservation along the way. Another place where pictures 'with' koalas were the main attraction. I like this place a little more because of the free roaming kangaroo yard. They really like their belly scratched, as this one wouldn't let me leave until he had had enough of it. I named him Morty, the name won't stick but I'll always remember it.
The tour continued on and we got some spectacular shots of the mountains and the valleys. It was described by the tour giude as the Grand Canyon, but with trees. We then went to a park that provided rides down to the valley from the top and back up again, while walking along the forest floor in between. The Three Sisters rock formation was the nice big rock formation that everyone flocks to.
We then continued on back down the elevation to sea level and stopped at this park ion the afternoon to have a snack and look for wild kangaroos. With luck we did spot some and got pretty close to them, they were comfortable with us being there but didn't want anything to do with us like the ones earlier on in the day. To wrap up the day the tour guide dropped us off up river from the city. From there we caught a ferry to take us up the river and back to downtown. It was a nice change of pace to see the city from the west side.
I figured I'd get the basics out of the way first and just wondered down town. I got the pictures of the Opera House and the bridge as everyone does. I finally associated the terrain of the maps I had been looking at for the past month to understand what I was looking at. I found a nice little cafe on one of the piers staring right at the opera house for my first dinner down under.
(5MAR) Obviously the first place I was getting to today was the zoo. It is nicely located on the other side of the Sydney Harbor so getting there also knocked out riding a ferry over the harbor. Typical Zoo stuff, but they did have the koalas and kangaroos and platypuses and other local animals. I easily spent all morning and part of the afternoon there and got some great pictures. The koalas slept pretty much all day so getting a good one with them was a little trickier than I imagined.
In the later part of the afternoon I walked around the rest of the inner city and got to the Harbor Bridge. To actually climb the bridge required reservations so I made those for Saturday and just ventured up the pylons which were also a tourist attraction. Got a good bit of history out of it and some great pictures.
(6MAR) The Blue Mountains are neither Blue or Mountains, yet when Australia was discovered they looked blue so hence the name. They are about a 2 hour drive outside of the city and having no car I was forced to book a tour (which wasn't that bad) out there. The tour threw in a couple other stops too that included a wildlife reservation along the way. Another place where pictures 'with' koalas were the main attraction. I like this place a little more because of the free roaming kangaroo yard. They really like their belly scratched, as this one wouldn't let me leave until he had had enough of it. I named him Morty, the name won't stick but I'll always remember it.
The tour continued on and we got some spectacular shots of the mountains and the valleys. It was described by the tour giude as the Grand Canyon, but with trees. We then went to a park that provided rides down to the valley from the top and back up again, while walking along the forest floor in between. The Three Sisters rock formation was the nice big rock formation that everyone flocks to.
We then continued on back down the elevation to sea level and stopped at this park ion the afternoon to have a snack and look for wild kangaroos. With luck we did spot some and got pretty close to them, they were comfortable with us being there but didn't want anything to do with us like the ones earlier on in the day. To wrap up the day the tour guide dropped us off up river from the city. From there we caught a ferry to take us up the river and back to downtown. It was a nice change of pace to see the city from the west side.
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