Sydney Day #3

12/4/07

Today actually turned out to be a nicer day, in terms of weather, than yesterday, so we were able to go to Watsons Bay today. We had breakfast in the hotel and then headed to the train to get to Circular Quay. We got on the ferry around 10:30 am and headed to Watsons Bay. It gave us a beautiful view of the entire city of Sydney. I think this would be a really nice city to live in because you don’t have to live right downtown to have access to the harbors. What’s great is that the water comes so far inland, that it makes several harbors, so you have access to the water from many places.

Watsons Bay is a really small town that used to be a fishing village and is on a very thin peninsula that separates the harbor from the ocean. The wharf is on the harbor side of the peninsula, and on the other side, there is a steep cliff face that borders the ocean. When we got off the boat, we walked across the “downtown” area (which was all of 50 yards or so) and walked up to the gap. We had to walk up some small trails to get to the cliff face, and there were some beautiful views. But it was really hot and the flies were killing us, so we didn’t stay there long. This is why we knew that doing “outback” adventures and hiking stuff would not be for us. We hate the heat, the bugs, and especially when being forced to exercise or exert effort :) So we walked back to the wharf, ate a snack and had a beer, and then caught the ferry back to Circular Quay.

Here are our pictures of Sydney from the ferry and Watsons Bay views:



When we got back to Circular Quay (it was only a 20 minute ferry ride), we had a glass of wine (it was so good we had to have it again; it’s called Cloudy Bay and it’s New Zealand wine) at the oyster bar we ate at yesterday and then we went back to the hotel and just chilled for a while. At night, we went to eat at a nice Chinese seafood restaurant that had tanks of live seafood (huge crabs and lobsters and fish!) that you could just pick out and they would cook it for you. We didn’t actually do it, but we saw waiters constantly walking by with clear bags of live seafood. It was cool. After dinner, we just went back to the hotel, packed, and watched tv.