Thursday: Taronga Zoo
Took the ferry across the harbour to Taronga Zoo. It's a really great little zoo with lots of Australian wildlife as well as animals from around the world too. The giraffes have the best view in the world!
The bird show is a particular highlight - a stunning open air amphitheatre with views cross the bay, and amazing Australian bird life free flying around your head.
After a day at the zoo chilled out at circular quay
Friday: Olympic park
Indulged my not-so-inner Olympic geek today and went out to Olympic park. It's a really good one, and I can imagine what the atmosphere was like here in September 2000! What's interesting is that a lot of the park seems only a little bit more mature than London's was this summer. Kudos to the ODA and gardening teams for making London's Olympic park look so mature and settled during the games not just 10 years later!
Hired a bike to explore and take in all the venues, I even managed to find my way up to the archery arena!
Highlights though were a tour of the Olympic stadium - looking a little shabby now, but stadiums do tend to when they aren't full of people - and also a swim in the Olympic pool. 50m breaststroke lap completed in 1m15secs - rio here I come?
Went out in the evening with my friend Ros from tesco and also some of her friends
The cauldron
Wenlock was also an excited Olympic tourist!!!
Saturday: The Rocks
Went to book my Bridgeclimb trip for Monday night (fingers crossed for the weather!)
Great day and explored the rocks - the historic district next to the harbour bridge. The Sydney Olympic pin collectors have a fortnightly meeting here on a Saturday so I swung past and picked up a few nice Sydney pins for my collection! Then a couple of historic museums - the rocks discovery centre and then the Hyde park barracks (yes Jennifer I had to do it!)
Went up the skytower for some brilliant views of the city, after which i took the ferry out to watsons bay t the edge of the harbour, o have fish chips on the beach from doyles famous restaurant. finished the evening down at circular quay watching the sun set over the bridge and opera house. Fabulous
Sunday: The Blue Mountains
Today a day tour up to the blue mountains. A nice group and excellent guide. Saw cockatoos and kangaroo, and then a Long but spectacular walk this morning with great weather and simply stunning views across the valleys.
Then it poured with rain for lunch, but cleared up as we walked down the valley near the three sisters rock formation. More waterfalls, forest walks and birds before getting the cable car back to the top - now that's the sort of walk I like! Now enjoying a meal in darling harbour. Last day in Sydney tomorrow!
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