Sydney Part 2

This is the view from the end of the street where my hostel is situated, just out of shot is the Harbour Bridge and the tips of the Sydney Opera House. The tall thin building in the middle is the Sydney Tower, I went up there on Tuesday. The next photo is of the Harbour Bridge from the top of the tower. I was 50/50 on if I should go up, glad I did - even though it took about 5 minutes before my hands stopped shaking.

Next is a photo from the Sydney Opera House, there's not much I can really say about it without sounding corny - it is stunning though.

This internet connection is painfully slow, so I'll have to miss out some other photos.

So far the trip has been great, it helps when you meet some good people in your first hostel. There were two Irish girls, one Welsh, a couple of guys from Germany and one guy from Holland.

They'd all been at the hostel a few weeks and were all sound, I only had two nights in Sydney so we didn't have a big night out, but had a few beers and played some poker on my second night.

Visiting the Aquarium was pretty good too, the best parts were two giant tanks with glass tunnels. One tank had seals and the other had various sharks and fish, but the most impressive inhabitant was the giant Manta Ray - it must have easily been seven feet across.

The wildlife park next door was good but less impressive, it had a large variety of Aussie wildlife with an impressive amount of marsupials. But everything was behind glass walls (including the Koalas & Kanagroos).

My favourite highliht from Sydney deserves a separate post, so that's coming next...