Sidney is still as beautiful as I remember but the harbor is spectacular. It has to be the most beautiful harbor in the world. The sun was out in force our first day which makes the Harbor sparkle but unfortunately it was not conducive of much activity. The temperature was over 90 degrees. I did get to the Rocks and since it was Sunday The Rocks Market had been set up. Prices were very high so not much was purchased. After two hours I decided it was too hot so we went back to the ship. After cooling off we went back out to see if any of the local stores with air conditioning were open. No such luck so after a couple of hours we went back to the ship. I did find a hair salon so I knew I could get my hair cut.

The next day the temperature dropped dramatically an would have been a great day to do the hop on hop off bus. Since last boarding was at 1:30 it really wasn’t enough time so I had my haircut and a manicure and pedicure. The haircut was a necessity since the gal from the ship had butchered one side of my hair. This gal straightened it out as much as possible and said it would take one more cut to get it fixed since she couldn’t cut the other side as short and still look good.

I walked around the port area and spotted this bird. I have seen them before but I don’t know what it is called. They are very tame.

As we were leaving the harbor a fireboat put on a show for us and it reminded me of 2008 and our sail away on the QE2. The most spectacular sail away never to be seen again. I believe we had three fireboats and different colors of water. We also had 5 or 6 helicopters and a flotilla of hundreds of boats. Four Hundred Thousand people lined the shores. Oh what a sail away. Our sail away this time was great but still not the same.

This small ship is an exact replica of the original Duyfken that discovered Australia in 1606. This ship was built in the Netherlands.