Wednesday 27th February 2013
Today we have decided to visit Taronga Zoo in Sydney Harbour, we visited the Zoo before and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We breakfasted in the same excellent little cafe in the Queen Victoria mall where we dined yesterday as we had been very satisfied with the food and the experience. The waiter remembered us and seated us at a nice little table by the window and yet again we were able to watch the commuting world rush by in droves. It was very interesting to note the obvious business breakfast meetings that were in progress while we were eating, the tables are laid out with seats for two diners and several of them were obviously in use for meetings or interviews.
After our breakfast we crossed the road to a food store with the intention of buying some food to take with us to the Zoo for lunch, we chose to buy two large foot long Subway rolls. We then made our way to Darling Harbour to buy tickets and catch the ferry to Taronga Zoo.
We were just in time to catch the 10.15am ferry and we enjoyed a wonderful ride across Sydney Harbour, past the Opera House and under the impressive Sydney Harbour Bridge. We stopped at Circular quay where we picked up some passengers. The Arcadia, a huge P&O cruise ship was docked there and quite a few of the passengers boarded our ferry to the Zoo. The sun was shining brilliantly and there was a nice breeze as we sped across the harbour past the Maritime Museum to our next stop which was Fort Denison. We were taking photographs of the wonderful view and the sights as we made the crossing to the Zoo. Sydney Harbour is reportedly the largest natural harbour in the world and the numerous ships and vessels using the harbour are a wonderful sight to savour.
Today we have decided to visit Taronga Zoo in Sydney Harbour, we visited the Zoo before and we thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We breakfasted in the same excellent little cafe in the Queen Victoria mall where we dined yesterday as we had been very satisfied with the food and the experience. The waiter remembered us and seated us at a nice little table by the window and yet again we were able to watch the commuting world rush by in droves. It was very interesting to note the obvious business breakfast meetings that were in progress while we were eating, the tables are laid out with seats for two diners and several of them were obviously in use for meetings or interviews.
After our breakfast we crossed the road to a food store with the intention of buying some food to take with us to the Zoo for lunch, we chose to buy two large foot long Subway rolls. We then made our way to Darling Harbour to buy tickets and catch the ferry to Taronga Zoo.
We were just in time to catch the 10.15am ferry and we enjoyed a wonderful ride across Sydney Harbour, past the Opera House and under the impressive Sydney Harbour Bridge. We stopped at Circular quay where we picked up some passengers. The Arcadia, a huge P&O cruise ship was docked there and quite a few of the passengers boarded our ferry to the Zoo. The sun was shining brilliantly and there was a nice breeze as we sped across the harbour past the Maritime Museum to our next stop which was Fort Denison. We were taking photographs of the wonderful view and the sights as we made the crossing to the Zoo. Sydney Harbour is reportedly the largest natural harbour in the world and the numerous ships and vessels using the harbour are a wonderful sight to savour.
We reached the docking area of Taronga Zoo where we had to catch a bus up the hill as the cable car that takes passengers to the Zoo had been damaged in a massive storm and was under repair. The numerous animals and birds from all over the world that are housed in this fantastic place are so obviously well cared for, it was a very great pleasure to wander around taking many photographs. My personal highlights were the many varieties of bird life on display and a very impressive photogenic male lion in the lion house with an impressive mane and eyes to match. There were so many other examples of amazing wildlife on display that I will only be able to do them justice with the aid of another slideshow of my photographs.
We had our lunch at a picnic area and there perhaps I really did experience my personal highlight of the whole visit. As we lunched a wild Kookaburra landed in front of us literally begging for food, he was shortly joined by another light coloured Kookaburra who landed on a branch overhead. There were also a number of exotic Chickens and a Rooster running around freely and a Brush Turkey, who had been stacking twigs behind us to make a nest made an appearance. The noisy Mynah birds were also vying for scraps of our food and then suddenly we noticed a wild lizard sunning himself on the top of a rock nearby. We quickly grabbed our cameras and snapped off some wonderful photographs during another truly memorable lunch time. We continued on our way and spent the rest of the afternoon visiting Elephants, Giraffes, Bears, Mountain Goats and many other wonderful creatures from around the world.
We then caught the 5.15pm ferry from the Zoo back to Darling Harbour, we were both very tired from our Zoo visit so we decided to have our dinner in a restaurant quite close to our hotel overlooking the harbour where there was a very good meal deal if we ate before 6.00pm. The food was good and very well prepared. We enjoyed this wonderful experience at the end of a lovely day together, the evening sun was warm and we strolled back to our hotel, hand in hand, to sleep and dream.
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