Day 182 - Sydney, Australia
Day 182 – 7th December 2005 +11:00 GMT Total Miles 31457
Jill and I spend the day on our own again as Reece went out some guys he is sharing a room with. We caught the train from Kings Cross to Circular Quay and booked ourselves on a cruise at 12:45pm, so we decided to get a cold pint of Stella while we were waiting. We boarded the boat around 12:40pm, we sat on the top deck but under the shade as the temperature is over 40 C today.
The Rocks
Opera House and Harbour Bridge
Sydney
The cruise was well narrated and took an hour and half to go all around the harbour, it made one stop at Darling Harbour for those who wished to visit Sydney Aquarium.
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney Opera House
When the boat docked again we went for food at a food court. Then Jill and wandered around the shops, I bought a couple of Dan Brown books as they were on sale. Since it was so hot we decided to go to the cinema and experience some air conditioning for a while, we saw the film “Domino” which was pretty good and was an autobiography film of a bounty hunter loosely based on a true story. By now I had a really bad headache probably due to the heat so I went back to the hostel and slept for a few hours. When I woke up Jill pointed out a huge, and I mean huge (size of my hand) spider sitting on the skirting board. I took a closer look and it looked mean an poisonous. Now 85% of Australian Spiders are highly Poisonous, since I would not let Jill kill it, we spent the next 1 hour trying to catch it, we did catch it once and it out through the window but it just ran back in. So we finally caught it and had to go down to the ground floor and out the front of the hostel to let it out onto the street. We then could finally go to sleep.
Jill and I spend the day on our own again as Reece went out some guys he is sharing a room with. We caught the train from Kings Cross to Circular Quay and booked ourselves on a cruise at 12:45pm, so we decided to get a cold pint of Stella while we were waiting. We boarded the boat around 12:40pm, we sat on the top deck but under the shade as the temperature is over 40 C today.
The Rocks
Opera House and Harbour Bridge
Sydney
The cruise was well narrated and took an hour and half to go all around the harbour, it made one stop at Darling Harbour for those who wished to visit Sydney Aquarium.
Sydney
Sydney
Sydney Opera House
When the boat docked again we went for food at a food court. Then Jill and wandered around the shops, I bought a couple of Dan Brown books as they were on sale. Since it was so hot we decided to go to the cinema and experience some air conditioning for a while, we saw the film “Domino” which was pretty good and was an autobiography film of a bounty hunter loosely based on a true story. By now I had a really bad headache probably due to the heat so I went back to the hostel and slept for a few hours. When I woke up Jill pointed out a huge, and I mean huge (size of my hand) spider sitting on the skirting board. I took a closer look and it looked mean an poisonous. Now 85% of Australian Spiders are highly Poisonous, since I would not let Jill kill it, we spent the next 1 hour trying to catch it, we did catch it once and it out through the window but it just ran back in. So we finally caught it and had to go down to the ground floor and out the front of the hostel to let it out onto the street. We then could finally go to sleep.
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