Sydney, Australia- Fri 2/15 & Sat 2/16
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| sailing by the sydney opera house |
We arrived in Sydney very early in the morning. We headed out to Paddy’s Market to do some
shopping. It is in Chinatown. Things were pretty cheap there. I bought real Pokemon cards there that have
tons of HP. I also got a Ganga Ganga
style shirt there. It is Chinese New
Year so they had a cool dragon parade go through the market.
In the afternoon, we rode the Hop on Hop off bus. We saw lots of Sydney. We saw the Opera House while we were on
it.
The next day, we rode the bus out to Bondi Beach. This is a famous surfing beach. It rained very hard while we were on the
bus. Of course we were on top when it
started but it rained even downstairs.
We walked in the rain at the beach too.
We rode the bus back to downtown and we went to the Maritime Museum.
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| the famouse Bondi Beach |
We got to go on a copy of Capt. Cook’s Endeavor. We had to crawl through part of the lower
decks. There was also a cool pirate
exhibit. We saw a model of a ship that
is on the Australian $20 bill.
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| this ship is on the AUD$20 |
That evening when we sailed away from Sydney we watched from
the deck. I took fun pictures with my
camera and its timer.
I forgot to post earlier that one evening after dinner while
cruising from Auckland, we saw White Island which has an active volcano that we
could see. I also saw the Southern Cross
that night.
