Morning drive today, heading further south towards Sydney. Brief comfort stop at a service station en route.
Then plans changed! We were due at Sydney’s Circular Quay to be on board the ship at 12.30pm, for a cruise, with lunch, round Sydney Harbour. However, roadworks connected with Sydney’s new tramline installation fooled our driver’s Truck Nav, causing us to miss the boat. Does this sound familiar to anyone who has had to drive in Edinburgh recently? Driver John totally devastated, and Tour Director, Marcus, into “change of plan” mode! Discussion with the ship tour office found us now booked on an evening dinner cruise with additional free bubbly and wine. Also brought forward was our city tour by coach. A call to the Sydney coach company doing the City tour, enabled this to be brought forward, and 30min later we were on another coach and setting off on a very comprehensive, and well commentated tour including The Rocks, Chinatown, Paddington, Circular Quay, Woolloomooloo, and finally Bondi Beach.
Felt the Harbour Bridge actually looked a bit grimy, and is definitely no match for the Forth Rail Bridge!
A couple of iconic images of Sydney follow, followed by 3 or 4 of Bondi Beach.
This time our local Sydney driver returned us to the Quay in plenty time for our evening cruise. A pleasant dinner was served shortly after departure, with the bubbly and wine of course! Some photos follow of Sydney Harbour at night.
We all reckoned we scored with the evening cruise rather than the lunch one.
On return to quayside our coach was waiting to transfer us to the Sydney Boulevard Hotel.
And thus an exciting day ends!
M & A in Oz 
Quite a day. Like the night shots. B. Beach doesn’t look much different from any other. But then I’m just biased against beaches!!
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Couldn’t agree with you more Colin!
Saw a guy wearing a Tee-shirt yesterday With “Another beach………..?” On it!
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