After a wonderful brekky of cook-them-yourselves waffles, we were at Green Gables at 9am when they opened. We had to go through a picket line to get in - some sort of employee protest. So there was no-one at the ticket counter when we arrived. We waited 5 minutes and decided to go on in to at least photograph the house. We found the house was about to be unlocked anyway, so we got to go through it, and the barn exhibits. The house was where Lucy Maude's grandpa...

This morning we rose at 5.30am and had brekky in the Kings Court. Our tour tickets for Sydney (Tour of Cabot Trail, all around the top half of the island) said to be in the theatre at 7.15am, but we still didn't leave till about 8am. The tender trip took about 20 minutes. Our tour guide, Maureen, was saying that on Monday (the day we were supposed to arrive) the waves were crashing into the car park. The city of Sydney had made a plaque to give the commodore co...