Sunday 19^th Oct

A cloudless blue sky and a lovely warm 27 degrees, it seems everybody must head into the city waterfront on weekend days like this. Circular Quay is a moving mass, ferries busily charging back and forth around the harbour loaded with sightseers. Around the harbour wall toward the opera house every nationality is represented by someone standing against the rail either taking a photo of themselves, or being photographed with the coat hanger or the opera house as a backdrop. So many times I apologised for crashing a photo shoot or getting included in a family happy snap. We did our share of happy snapping, had a close look at the icon and wandered on around to the Royal Botanical Gardens, here we boarded a mini train and had a commentated tour around the massive park. Following that we had a forty-five minute guided tour through government house and that was interesting and informative. Government House is an inspiring old building that would be more at home in England and although it is the office of the NSW Governor it is also where he resides.  After that and a brief snack we spent some time just wandering around the park enjoying the sun.