Wyatt's Blog: Sydney Tour (26 June

28 June...

Ok today is a quite busy day. We first went to Circular Quay to catch a ferry (again!?) and sail to Darling Harbour. Jason was having his sunnies that day, showing off how nice he was with those sunnies on his face... and so he forced me to wear also, sob sob... That day I got to see the morning view of Sydney, which was different from the afternoon and evening view that I had before. Cool...

Me on the ferry

Jason with his sunnies (wanna vomit, urgh..)

Magnificient Sydney Opera House in the morning

Back to the topic, we hopped off at Darling Harbour i guess. We went to the National Maritime Museum (which Jason was very excited about, sigh). The entrance ticket is called Big Ticket (I forgot the price, but ask him, he got a expenditure record of every single cent). First we entered the Museum itself. Not much, most of them were replicas and models, and obviously I am not much into the history of Australia. Haha. Then, we got to visit 3 different 'ship': a submarine, HMS On-slow and James Cook's Ship (haha whatever, bad memory).

Me in front of the museum

First, for the submarine, this is the first time i went into one. Oops it was pretty narrow like a tunnel. I can barely move there (fat fat.. sob...). To me nothing much except I could see the big torpedo that weigh more than a tonne! Also about all the meters and the cabin and even the toilet, huh? However, a pretty good experience.

Ok, for the HMS On-slow (or who-know-what?), it is a bigger ship with the cannons in front of it. Nothing much also, except I got to learn more about the bullets, or whatever...

Haha I am the captain!!

Fireeee!!!

Me in the 'bedroom'

Finally, the James Cook's one, a replica only. But it is quite real. I learnt most stuffs here, about the life of Captain Cook, how the sailors live there, how they cook, sleep and so on. I am so impressed by the replica itself. Cant describe much here coz forget most of them... Let the picture tell the story.

Ok, finish for the National Maritime Museum, we went to the Sydney Fish Market. We were lost for half an hour, thanks to somebody again, haha. First, I was welcomed by the foul smell of seafood, but soon i found it an interesting place. Countless stall selling various seafood, a view that I have never seen before in Brissy. We finally decided to order something to eat (btw it was already 2.30pm, sigh). We had a fishermen basket (calamari+prawns+chips+etc), half dozen of oyster (kill me pls...) and a plate of salmon. New experience to me to eat oyster, coz I have not eaten it before... Lucky I didnt get stomachache haha!! So hungry that forgot to take pics for the food, paiseh...

Behind me is Anzac Bridge, according to Jason

After some camera time there, we went to Star City, the casino, hahahaha. This is also one of my first-time (since Genting casino allows only ppl 21+, I am too young to enter hehe :p). We were given free ten dollars to gamble. I chose the roulette and lost my bet at once. Jason chose the machine and won 4 dollars haha. For more stories about gambling, stay tuned to future post of Melbourne Crown Casino. Haha show time...

Huh, finally came to the final part of the day, the Sydney Observatory. Ming Shyuan, Pizza and Fish joined us as well for that (Hwei Fern not coming coz she was busy moving). Ish, Fish was late and we hurried there in 10 mins from Circular Quay. Phew, lucky we got there on time. First we went into the new dome and watch some stars (forgot the name) and planets (like Jupiter, Mars = a rainbow dot, haha). Quite impressive, but not as high tech as I first thought of. However, the guide seems to be very knowledgeable, basically talking non-stop. After that we went into the building and watched some 3D shows, quite nice. Thirdly we went outside and used out naked eyes to locate the stars. Wow, I got to see the Scorpio!! His tail and his heart!! Cant see much due to clouds, we went inside another dome with an older telescope (manual). The funnies thing was that we could see the heart of Scorpio, which is red in colour (haha I am normal), but Ming Shyuan kept saying it was black, isk isk... Ok camera time....