Catching back up

We've been in Sydney for two days now. Done the usual touring, and no big surprise, on our official tour day (which was a half-day tour around the entire area) was during a monsoon type rain.

So we saw Mrs. Macquarie's chair, Bondi Beach, and the Sydney harbor bridge in the pouring rain. Makes for some very interesting and different photo ops.

Yesterday evening we had a tour of the Sydney Opera House, ate dinner there along the waterfront and then saw Barber  of Seville.  Very well done, and funny, too.

Today we took the ferry over to Manly, getting us some great views and a beach town all on the same trip.  Manly reminds us of Balboa. It's a short ferry ride away, but vastly different than citified Sydney and the power-suited.

And from the ferry we got some great views of the harbor, the bridge, the Opera House and the Diamond Princess which is back in port today.

Tonight we pack, for we return tomorrow. And we need to get to the airport extra early as the border immigration department is on strike for 24 hours.  Wish us luck!