It was raining really heavily when we woke up. Lynda told us that although it rains more often in England, when it rains in Sydney, it rains so much heavier, that they actually have a much higher annual rainfall. We didn’t want to waste a day, so we packed the waterproofs and caught the ferry to the city centre.
We visited the Botanic Gardens, and although we had been there before, they are so big, that we saw so much more this time. We spotted the hundreds of Fruit Bats or Flying Foxes, as the locals call them, in the trees!
We also treated ourselves to a coffee/tea and cake! Gotta be done in the rain! The cakes were so sickly they were goooood!
The plan was to then walk straight to the National Art Gallery which is in the Botanic Gardens, and with a slight detour (which was nothing to do with Amanda navigating again, honest) or the ‘scenic route’ as we like to call it, we spotted an outdoor 50m swimming pool just randomly next to the river!
There were also hundreds of runners going past us, which Gav first said “well it must be lunchtime for the workers”, but this was an impressive turnout for a lunch break! After closer inspection, the runners had numbers pinned on them which said “The Corporate Cup” on – there were teams from all the big companies such as PWC. So, we made It to the Art Gallery which had a Picasso exhibition on! Mand was so excited about that! We got to see the classical colourful crazy paintings, but also how he got to this point – there was a quote of him saying something along the lines of “I had advanced drawing skills from a young age, it took me years to draw like a child”. It was interesting to see some of his unfinished sketches, learning about his family, about when he painted through the 2nd World War and the other artists he worked alongside, like Cezanne! After walking around this exhibition, we were both tired and legs ached (for a change) we wondered around some other bits, seeing a Monet painting, but just made our way back to the entrance.
Our next stop was the Aquarium, not the best idea when our legs were killing, but we had already bought discounted tickets online, and it was an ideal thing to do for a rainy day. Everyone else in Sydney seemed to have the same idea...it was rammed! There was some amazing marine life to admire, including a Great Barrier Reef section with Nemos, Marlins and Doreys, a Freshwater shrimp that said “My bubbles” and a crazy starfish called Peach that claimed she was from Ebay (this is all true!). There was also a big tank of sharks and massive stingray that you could walk under through a tunnel, and there were Flashlight fish that were in pitch black tanks and their eyes flashed like a torch (believe it or not!) – Caroline saw these in Bristol Aquarium too!
When we got home, we were both really tired, and Lynda had got Sausage and Mash in for us, which hit the spot! As you can imagine, we both slept amazingly well!
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