We had planned on following some of Caitlin's sister Megan's recommendations for things to do in Sydney on Sunday: doing the Sydney Harbor Kayaking tour, eating breakfast at Bather's Pavilion in Balmoral Beach, and dinner at sunset at Watson's Bay.
Unfortunately, the weather didn't cooperate for us to do all of those things. The temperature was maybe 70-ish, but the winds were sustained 25mph with gusts up to 50mph. Right as we were about to leave our hotel on Sunday morning, we got a call from the Kayak Tours people saying they had to cancel the tour that day because of the wind (which sucked, because they only do it on the weekends outside of the summer, and so we couldn't reschedule, I guess we should've booked Saturday. . .).
So, no worries. We changed clothes and put on some warmer clothes and hopped on the ferry for Turanga Zoo. Once we got off the Zoo, we were supposed to get on the 238 bus to Balmoral Beach. When we walked to the end of the Ferry Wharf, we saw the 238 bus, but it only said it was going to the zoo. There was a lady there from the zoo, so we asked her if the bus continued on after the zoo entrance, and she said "No, the bus only goes to the zoo." So the bus drove off and we set off walking, and basically ended up walking 1/2 a mile up a big hill to the upper zoo entrance, to then get on the exact same bus. Thanks a lot lady!
After that, the bus dropped us off a couple hundred yards away from breakfast, and at this point we were starving, since we got up at 7am for our kayaking, and then didn't get to eat until 10:30 because we had to wait for the Ferry until 8:45. I'd like to take this opportunity to thank Megan for recommending breakfast there, because the view from our table was awesome (you can see it here on the left). Oh yeah, and the food was pretty good too.
We walked around along the boardwalk for awhile, and went out and sat on the rocks (the picture at the top, good thing I figured out how the timer works on our fancy camera!) out of the wind, and then made our way home.
After a short mid-afternoon nap, we took the ferry out to Watson's Bay and walked up to the Gap (the two rocks that make up the mouth of Sydney Harbor from the Pacific ocean. Unfortunately, shortly after that the camera battery finally crapped out (which is pretty good since I've taken about 600 pictures since we've been in Australia. . . ) so there weren't any more pictures from our evening.
However, we did make it down to Doyle's on the beach, and we had a delicious dinner. The wind was just crazy though! It kept blowing the door open, but it did do a really good job of keeping the crowd away. Our sunset was unfortunately blotted out by some clouds (but not the red sandy kind! We were in the Outback for those), but the dinner and Bluetongue was delicious. After a bus ride back to our hotel, our day of panoramic views and gastronomic adventures was over.
Scott
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