25th Oct

Saturday 25^th Oct

Once again I shall rave about Sydney’s public transport system. We boarded a fast ferry at Meadowbank 10 to 15 minutes from our friends place. These ferries travel all the way to Paramatta but we were heading in the other direction toward the city and enjoyed a scenic trip through the waterways to Darling Harbour where we alighted for a walk around and had a look at Packers new casino well under construction. Next to the casino construction site the state government is re-developing the remainder of the point called Barangaroo, where the over-seas cruise ships used to berth. In keeping with heritage I believe it is being established back to how it was originally. I wonder if Packer contributed to any of that to get his approval? After spending sometime wandering around Darling Harbour and checking out the very obvious female hostesses on what was obviously to be a bucks party cruise, we once again hopped onto another fast ferry for the run around to Circular Quay. From here we strolled up-town checking out the old buildings, and taking in good historical information that our well informed friends passed on. Eventually we got to Hyde Park where a Noodles festival was being held there must have been every type of Asian food available from every Asian country, a bit like Mindil Market in Darwin only this was just food. After spending a couple of hours there and of course indulging, we wandered back down through town to Circular Quay and did the reverse trip only in the dark which was a whole new ball game. – A glorious day and no clouds.