On Thursday, Craig took us to the East of the city and we explored the bays, inlets, cliffs and beaches, including (of course!) Bondi. It was amazing to think that a city can be so close to the sea! We had lunch in a famous seafood restaurant, Doyle’s, and discovered Sydney has good fish too.

Memorial to Bali bomb victims, Bondi

Macquarie Lighthouse

Above: Bondi

The next day, Peter took us to Sydney Zoo (despite having been in Australia for days, we had not seen one koala or kangaroo) It was great. We saw the kangroos, emus, dingoes (no jokes about babies, please), echidna, koalas, platypuses (platypi?) and wombats. We liked the latter the best - all sleeping and snoring on their backs. That evening we went to the Sydney Opera House to see "The Cunning Little Vixen". It was excellent.

  

Above: Victorian houses in Paddington

Below: Pictures from the Harbour cruise