Sunny Sydney...

Friday, February 10. Docked in Sydney. 21 C. Lovely blue sky, like you would expect.

Yesterday was not a good day for me as, you may have noticed. My feet and some toes, although on the mend, have a long way to go before I find extensive walking comfortable, and a pleasant experience. 

We both took a 'Day Off’. Fellette did not have to but chose to, out of loyalty to me I assume. It was a day of reading, some emails light walking and a chance to just slow down to a more manageable pace, for me at least. So what if the big city of Sydney does not see Doug and Fellette today, or ever. It takes me a bit to comprehend why I need to see a city in a foreign country in the first place when we avoid our own city, Vancouver. They all look alike and the stores are all the same and sell the same stuff unless you are looking for souvenirs: which we are not.

Give me a Country Town in the middle of Australia, or anywhere for that matter. Australian friends Rod and Lyn lived in a Country Town called Maryborough, quite a few miles west of Melbourne, Australia. We have stayed and visited with them there, the town was a perfect size. You could walk to anywhere necessary from their home: perfect! I don’t think there was a single stop light!

At Home we still live in an area where there is generous space between homes, we also brought our children up on a five acre hobby farm. When we look back, cities are not our bag at all and never have been.

 Not that I have to, but I want to: I am justifying why Fellette and I are staying aboard while the ship is in such a beautiful place as Sydney. We have been here several times before, the first time was in 1999. All that has changed in those 24 years is the place has got bigger and busier. But our dislike of Big Cities has not changed, that is why we moved our family to Five Acres and Independence in 1974 in the first place!

A Good Day…

We took on fuel today.

A partial view of a the suburbs [?] of The Big City.

View from the balcony down to the stage.

View from the stage front upstairs. A Panorama shot is needed and that does not work in this case. See Fellette near top-left.

After we cast off, heading under the Sydney Bridge. We climbed that with Jim several years ago. Great fun.

Out we go, on the way to Tasmania, after a day at sea.

Of course: The Sydney Opera House.

Into the Land of Tasmanian devils we go!