We arrived in Sydney at 0645 on the 1st March; it couldn’t be any later because the ferries start running at 0700. Aurora was berthed in Circular Quay, right in the heart of Sydney. We were off the ship soon after 0900 as we had been warned the weather would be extremely hot. It was, 35c by midday! We have seen so much of Sydney before in our previous visits, but we re-visited all the tourist sites and eventually arrived in Darling Harbour where we were ready for a beer and lunch.
Further walking in the afternoon around the Rocks area and then back to the ship about 1700 to shower and get ready for dinner. After dinner we walked around to the Opera House which I think makes a more striking photo than in the daytime.
We have now ended our third sector of this voyage, and as I write this we are at sea on our way to New Zealand and it is 1015 on Thursday morning. I believe yet again we have rough weather ahead of us, but whether this is because of the earth tremor in Wellington yesterday, or just that this is a rough patch of sea, I’m not sure. Time will tell – or certainly the captain will!
We are cruising in Milford Sound on Saturday, so the next blog will not be until the evening of Sunday 6 March, when we will have visited Dunedin. We put our clocks forward tonight which will make the time GMT +12.
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