Long weekend
As Sean said in his last post, we started the long weekend with a visit to the Fish Market and the cooking of a crab.
After our large lunch we were falling asleep by 6pm so we went for a walk by Darling Harbour. We were just going to have a quick walk up the other side of the harbour where we haven't been yet but when we got there we noticed that Sydney Aquarium was open until 10pm so we went to have a look round. We saw loads of cool things, including a duck-billed platypus, a cool multi-coloured sea dragon type thing and lots of eels, fish and sharks. It also kept us awake until a sensible hour to go to sleep!
On Saturday, despite vowing we wouldn't, we had another big lunch (Cod from the Fish Market) followed by an afternoon of inactivity.
We both got two easter eggs for Easter, Sean got a Kinder surprise giant egg from me and a Lindt egg from work. I got a Lindt egg and a My Little Pont easter bucket from Sean.
My Little Pony Easter Bucket
We had to swap eggs early as Sean had no chance to hide his, but I lasted until Saturday evening before scoffing the Lindt egg. Pretty good huh?
On Sunday we decided to do some more touristy things so we went to Taronga Zoo. You get to the zoo by taking a ferry from Circular Quay (the main ferry hub) and we had discovered on Friday that you can take a ferry from where we live to Circular Quay. What could be easier? We also found that if we bought day passes (£6 each) we also got £2 off the Zoo entry.
The first thing you do on arrival is to take a sky lift up to the Zoo.
The "Sky Safari"
We saw a lot of exciting animals in the zoo, including visiting the penguins at least twice, seeing them fed and also seeing a really cool bird show.
Here are some animals we saw:
Camel
Giraffe and Zebras
Bear Cat. Is it a bear? Is it a cat?
Rhinocerous
There aren't any photos of penguins, despite the number of times we went to see them, as the camera ran out of battery.
The zoo is situated just over the river from the city, so it is still very much in the centre of Sydney. Here is a picture of some mountain goats set against a backdrop of the harbour bridge. Don't spend too long looking for the mountain goats - they don't seem to have come out too well.
Mountain goats?
We ate at the zoo, Sean had a pizza but I tried some traditional Aussie tucker: one of Mrs Mac's famous pies. It was pretty good.
Today we went swimming in the pool that is part of the complex. We hadn't even been to see it before today. It's a giant pool and best of all there was no one else there!
Pool
Back to work tomorrow.
As Sean said in his last post, we started the long weekend with a visit to the Fish Market and the cooking of a crab.
After our large lunch we were falling asleep by 6pm so we went for a walk by Darling Harbour. We were just going to have a quick walk up the other side of the harbour where we haven't been yet but when we got there we noticed that Sydney Aquarium was open until 10pm so we went to have a look round. We saw loads of cool things, including a duck-billed platypus, a cool multi-coloured sea dragon type thing and lots of eels, fish and sharks. It also kept us awake until a sensible hour to go to sleep!
On Saturday, despite vowing we wouldn't, we had another big lunch (Cod from the Fish Market) followed by an afternoon of inactivity.
We both got two easter eggs for Easter, Sean got a Kinder surprise giant egg from me and a Lindt egg from work. I got a Lindt egg and a My Little Pont easter bucket from Sean.
My Little Pony Easter Bucket
We had to swap eggs early as Sean had no chance to hide his, but I lasted until Saturday evening before scoffing the Lindt egg. Pretty good huh?
On Sunday we decided to do some more touristy things so we went to Taronga Zoo. You get to the zoo by taking a ferry from Circular Quay (the main ferry hub) and we had discovered on Friday that you can take a ferry from where we live to Circular Quay. What could be easier? We also found that if we bought day passes (£6 each) we also got £2 off the Zoo entry.
The first thing you do on arrival is to take a sky lift up to the Zoo.
The "Sky Safari"
We saw a lot of exciting animals in the zoo, including visiting the penguins at least twice, seeing them fed and also seeing a really cool bird show.
Here are some animals we saw:
Camel
Giraffe and Zebras
Bear Cat. Is it a bear? Is it a cat?
Rhinocerous
There aren't any photos of penguins, despite the number of times we went to see them, as the camera ran out of battery.
The zoo is situated just over the river from the city, so it is still very much in the centre of Sydney. Here is a picture of some mountain goats set against a backdrop of the harbour bridge. Don't spend too long looking for the mountain goats - they don't seem to have come out too well.
Mountain goats?
We ate at the zoo, Sean had a pizza but I tried some traditional Aussie tucker: one of Mrs Mac's famous pies. It was pretty good.
Today we went swimming in the pool that is part of the complex. We hadn't even been to see it before today. It's a giant pool and best of all there was no one else there!
Pool
Back to work tomorrow.
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