Tuesday 21st
Another gloomy start to the day but hopefully it will burn
off as the day heats up.
We took the train and light rail to the National Maritime
Museum and spent several hours looking over various vessels including the light
destroyer HMAS Vampire, a submarine HMAS Onslow and Cooks replica Endeavour. We
spent a lot of time on the Endeavour listening to volunteer guides explain
various aspects of the ship and a few historical facts, we crawled like
chimpanzees between decks smacking our heads on low slung members, getting old
and wearing glasses a distinct disadvantage. The adjacent museum building
itself is quite huge and houses numerous galleries displaying an enormous
number of interesting maritime objects, documents, photos, paintings and film
footage. Ranging from early explorers to current day interests. Kay Cottee’s
vessel ‘Blackmore’s First Lady’ is even on display in there.
Australian Maritime Museum is easy to get to and certainly
worth a visit. (I think so anyway.)
From the museum we
caught a light rail around to the Sydney Fish Market, by this time it was
mid-afternoon and a lot of the vendors were in the process of cleaning up but I
was still amazed at the huge range and variety of fish and crustacean’s on display
for sale. In one display I noticed an ugly looking scorpion fish for sale the
look of it was enough to put you off and I wondered if these were the poisonous
fish the Japanese treat as a specialty. Another thing that surprised me was to
see female crabs for sale obviously they were legal but how does the species
survive. Oysters, I didn’t know there were so many different varieties
available.
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