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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4T97-14I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":338,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/04\/whale-watching\/","url_meta":{"origin":4136,"position":0},"title":"Whale watching","date":"Monday, 4 January 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Just back from the best meal we've had all trip - ate at the Indigo Grill, which appears to be part of a series of places.\u00a0 But the place acts like a small independent and the service and food were excellent. We left almost too full to walk! Definitely recommended\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Frog Blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4236,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/07\/cetaceans\/","url_meta":{"origin":4136,"position":1},"title":"Cetaceans","date":"Thursday, 7 December 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"So we're being so lazy I'm not sure what day of the week it is! Hooray for a relaxing holiday. After breakfast, when I learned Joe had neglected to mention they serve champagne*, we went down to the town (village?). Saw a large boat leaving the harbour and figured it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Frog Blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4130,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2019\/12\/07\/joe-has-a-day-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":4136,"position":2},"title":"Joe has a day off!","date":"Saturday, 7 December 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Didn't go to work! Looking for somewhere to have breakfast, so walked to Darling Harbour. Kathleen found the water park, a play area for kids of all ages. (K: it's nifty - you get to direct the water with switches and dams and spin a water wheel. Connected to a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3992,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/03\/happy-hangover-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":4136,"position":3},"title":"Happy Hangover Day!","date":"Monday, 3 July 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"There is a theme of watching fireworks from the hotel deck this year. Last night decided we couldn't see the fireworks from our room, so headed downstairs and out onto the deck where we could watch the fireworks - and yes, they were over the harbour. In keeping with the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4257,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/15\/and-back-to-doing-as-little-as-possible-with-some-travel\/","url_meta":{"origin":4136,"position":4},"title":"And back to doing as little as possible (with some travel)","date":"Friday, 15 December 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Monday started well, got up early, had breakfast, and down to the harbour to go whale watching. Were far too early, as is normal, so found a bench and watched the boats. Saw the ferry come in and so checked the timings and realised we can get the ferry back\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Travel"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3165,"url":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/20\/a-matter-of-perspective\/","url_meta":{"origin":4136,"position":5},"title":"A Matter of Perspective","date":"Tuesday, 20 December 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"So the talk last night was to introduce the senior officers and to go over the excursion for today. Then we headed up to the top deck to have champagne and watch Bergen disappear off the stern. So we've now had champagne on board a ship in the sub-Antarctic and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Frog Blog"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4137,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4136\/revisions\/4137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purple-penguin.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}