Day 37, Friday, February 17, 2006 Hyde Park and the Royal Botanic Gardens extend for many blocks next to the downtown area. Statues, monuments, fountains, and magnificent old buildings are interspersed with huge trees, gardens and walkways. The ferries run everywhere around Sydney Harbour and we took one over to Manly, a small beach town in North Sydney where we had lunch. On the return trip our ferry had to stop and wait for the Queen Elizabeth II to pull out of port. It was a great sight as she steamed past the Sydney Opera House and out of the harbour. The Sydney Aquarium has thousands of fish including exhibits of the Great Barrier Reef and a huge shark tank with a walking tunnel around the bottom where you can watch them swim around you.
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Just as we remember it from 1 yr. ago. Sydney that is. Our daughter Anita who lives in Sydney has left Calgary for Toronto and then on to London & other parts of England. Interested to see where you travel in Australia. J&J
That beach looks pretty fantastic!
That aquarium must be amazing too. The aquarium in Seoul had that same kind of "tunnel" shark tank too, pretty cool to watch them swim over your head.
Vicky,
Yeah, that swimming overhead was really sort of spooky. What really amused me, though were the rays from the underside. They all looked like they were grinning at us.
Mom
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