Another day, another tourist attraction ticked off the list, this time it was Taronga Zoo, hidden on a hillside looking over the Sydney harbour. Arriving by ferry from near the harbour bridge and Opera house makes the visit more of a quintessential Sydney day trip. First animals to visit were obviously the kangaroos, enjoying their early afternoon nap and unperturbed as zoo visitors wandered past in their enclosure. Round the corner, an almighty roar broke the silence, with a cute koala being the only culprit, which it probably was – they’ve also been known to confuse a few Aboriginals too. The other highlight was sitting inches from a huge salty (crocodile, that is), fortunately for us a couple of those inches were glass…
Back to Bondi for fish and chips, well prawns in my case as they’d run out of octopus. I thought I was on to a winner as the bag was pretty full, but as I sat down to munch, 12 little black eyes stared back. Time to try and remember how to peel the little critters!
Sunday started rudely with Caroline waking me up for a walk to Coogee. We walked along the same path as last weekend, although there was now a sign indicating that the homeless man was not an art exhibit, and to please step away. A few miles, and several bays later we arrived in Coogee, where a proper slap up breakie of pancakes made up for the walk.
It’s now only 2 weeks until I’m done with this working lark, and the holiday starts again. It’s feeling like those final few days of school before summer holiday, maybe I should start taking board games to work…