Breakfast at the hotel then we walked to Wharf 6 to catch a ferry and bumped into the couple we had met in Melbourne Old Gaol who were catching the same ferry as us although getting off at a different stop!

Before we left the hotel we heard that there had been a fatal plane crash involving a club plane from our local (NZ) Hawke’s Bay Aero Club that morning, which was very upsetting to hear.

More Harbour Bridge climbers.

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We visited Taronga Zoo. Well worth a visit.

A Rose-crowned Fruit-dove.

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A King Parrot.

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A Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo.

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Wallabies and Kangaroos. Note the lizard joining one of them.

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Lemurs.

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Koalas. It’s a hard life!

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We had to leave the zoo sooner than we wanted as we had tickets to a 90 mins ‘Great Opera Hits’ performance at the Opera House, in the Joan Sutherland Theatre.

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Obligatory pre-performance ice cream.

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We were even encouraged to sing at the end so we can now say we’ve sung at the Sydney Opera House!

Noel taking a picture for some tourists.

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The sun was beginning to set.

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We had a pre-dinner ice cream to check a different manufacturer.

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We had dinner in the same place as the first night and were charged less because they recognised us! 🙂

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Fireworks!

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