Darling Harbour and the Pyrmont Bridge
Saturday, April 22, was quite rainy. We stayed in the motorhome for the morning, then after lunch went shopping at Chatswood.
Yesterday, Sunday April 23, was a nicer day, and though partly cloudy we went to the National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour in the morning. There were some very interesting exhibits, including one on the 100,000 children that were sent overseas from Great Britain. Most of them went to Canada, but there were a significant number that came here to Australia, as late as the 1960’s. There are also a number of exhibits about the maritime history of Australia. We ate lunch on the dock, where there are a number of historic ships docked. You can tour these ships, but instead we decided to go to the aquarium.
The Sydney Aquarium is back across the Pyrmont Bridge towards the centre of Sydney. We spent a couple of hours there looking at the fish. We enjoyed seeing some of those that we had seen while snorkeling in both the Great Barrier Reef, and on the Ningaloo Reef. They also have a couple of dugongs which we got to see more clearly than the one we saw at Shark Bay.
Today, Anzac Day, we began to pack up and clean out the motorhome. Once again it was very wet and raining this morning. This will probably be my last post to the blog from Australia. Tomorrow is our last day in the motorhome, Wednesday we will complete the sale and stay in a hotel in preparation for our flight home.