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Saturday, 6 December, Sydney, NSW, AU After a quick breakfast, we got picked up by the Gray Line bus to take us on a tour of the city. After going around the CBD we went to see Mrs. Macquarie's Chair, a lookout point where the lady in the title used to sit and watch for ships coming from England in the early nineteenth century. It has an excellent view of the harbor and the northern suburbs across the bay. Unfortunately the area was crammed with four busloads of Japanese students, all goofing around, taking pictures, and making lots of noise. We then headed to Bondi Beach, where we stopped to walk on the beach and get a dish of ice cream. It was a nice hot day, about 90 degrees, so there were quite a few people on the beach already at mid-morning. The tour ended at the King Street Wharf, from which we'd taken the boat cruise the night before. We had lunch there in a pub and shopped a little until the afternoon tour picked us up for a tour of the suburbs, mostly some funky and fancy places on the North Shore of the harbor. We were pretty tired, so we just had McDonald's in the room. But a nice surprise occurred, as we were watching TV, Gail halfway watching the Opera House out the window, the sky started lighting up with fireworks. Apparently they shoot off a nice show of them on Saturday nights at the Opera House, so we enjoyed them just before bedtime. Back to itinerary (trip home page)
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