Sydney Harbor

Tuesday, September 25, 2007 7:13am

Yesterday was our tour the harbor day. The first item on our agenda was to go get tickets to see a performance at the Sydney Opera house sometime this week. The concierge suggested we take the ferry to the opera house. We followed his advice and it was fabulous. You can buy a day ticket and you can take all of the ferries you want all day long. So we got a really nice tour by water of Circular Quay (that is the part of the harbor where the opera house is) and we also spent a good bit of time at Darling Harbor. So, back to the tickets, we are going to see a play called Don's Party Wednesday afternoon at 1pm. You can read about it here: http://www.sydneyoperahouse.com/sections/whats_on/boxoffice/event_details.asp?EventID=2000&sm=1&ss=1 There were only about 6 seats left; we were lucky to get to see anything in there at all. After picking up our tickets we ate some lunch and hopped back on the ferry over to Darling Harbor.

At Darling Harbor we went to see the Sydney Aquarium. The sharks were very impressive, as was the saltwater crocodile on display. There was one tank however that impressed us more than anything else, and it was the jellyfish tank. There was one tank of jellyfish that were luminescent, they glowed when a dull light was shined through the water. So in this dark room you could see the glowing jelly fish swimming in their tank and it was very cool. We also saw the largest lobster I have ever seen in my life, it had to weigh—I’d guess—20 pounds or more, it was colossal.

So after all the sightseeing in the harbor we rode a city bus back to Bondi beach. We went to a private club called the Bondi Icebergs for dinner (they allow guests). Link: http://www.icebergs.com.au/ The food was mediocre but the view was incredible and worth going for. The Bondi Icebergs have two large Olympic size swimming pools that are filled naturally when the tide comes in. Yes you read that right. The tide literally washes into the pool and last night the water was particularly rough so it was quite a show. As the tide comes in, it blasts into the wall that is the side of the pool and the water just crashes violently over the side filling the pool. We asked the kid at the restaurant how they deal with all the sand that we figured must just fill up the bottom of the pool and he told us that the pool is completely drained once a day and when they drain it all the sand goes out with it. So they keep the thing clean by totally refilling it every day.

Today we are planning to just relax all day probably at the beach and then we are going to Meagan’s graduation tonight. I’m finally going to get these entries put up on the web. As well as the pictures.