The Purple Penguin

Joe is back to work, poor Joe. So back to up and out for breakfast. Found a new place toward the office which is really nice and may well become our breakfast place this week. Crisp hot toast, yay! After breakfast, waved Joe off to the office and headed out. Well, back to the hotel to sort some admin stuff before really heading out.

Got the train to Circular Quay, which is becoming a standard trip! Went to check the whale watching tours, but they really are just whale watching tours, not wildlife tours, so they stop at the beginning of November when the whales move on. The woman at the desk said the staff have tried to get the owners to do a wildlife tour outside of whale season as the coast is lovely and there are seals and dolphins and birds to be seen. Which is what we wanted to go out and see! Oh well, we have a marine tour booked off Kangaroo Island.

Then headed to the Opera House and the ticket office for tours. The place was packed solid! But managed to get to the desk and got a backstage tour for Wednesday morning. So have to get up at stupid o’clock on Wednesday to get there in time for the tour, but really looking forward to seeing it all.

Then headed up to the Justice museum which is only open on weekends, so carried on to the Sydney Museum. The museum is tiny. Very tiny with few permanent exhibits. But they have a really good film, Yura Nura, with contemporary Aboriginal views on the colonization of Sydney. The other interesting display was the model ships along with a computer description of the ship and information about the first fleet. And there was a visiting exhibition on John Gollings architecture photography which was very good. As small as the museum is, I managed to spend several hours there.