Second half of the week very different to the first. On Thursday I actually had to get the raincoat out my bag for the first time, temperatures dropped from around 35C to around 20C and rain, but hey skin is waterproof. Thursday I made use of the ferries and visited the zoo, Manly and the rocks. At the zoo first thing so it wasn't busy, some animals hiding from the rain, but many had just received their breakfast so we're out and about. There were some souls b...

So this one deserves its own entry. An early start, picked up at 7.30am along with 11 others and we headed north over the bridge out of Sydney. Just over 2 hrs later we're arriving at our first vineyard of the day. In the distance a plume of smoke can be seen from a bush fire, currently being battled (later that day, after we had left, the fire would get close to Cessnock requiring some people to be evacuated, but all was ok the fire services got it under cont...

First couple of days in Sydney, been really busy making the most of the hop on hop off bus pass I have to get around and see as much of the city as possible. It's even hotter here than in Fiji! The bus also went out to Bondi beach so spent a couple of hours there in the afternoon. Hotel is one road back from Darling Harbour, there's a pedestrian walkway over and under two major roads to get there, also straight up the road in the other direction is a supermarke...