Few!!! We sold Serena! It felt so good to get rid of her, but I think we both were a bit sad deep down. We spent the last few days in rainy Auckland looking forward to Australia and reflecting on our time in NZ, it will be weird traveling with out a vehicle, but Paul has driven so much and I have navigated the shit out of NZ so I think a break is in order for the both of us.
The flight was quick and smooth, we landed into a cloudy muggy Sydney and found some internet to research and decide the best way to get to our camp for the night. It was either get a cab for the 30min drive or public transport, we opted for the public transport it would be way more adventurous! We bought a pass for the week that let us take any train, bus, or ferry around Sydney and the surrounding areas. Sweet! We navigated our way on two trains and found our camp Lane Cove River tourist park, so much for adventure it was very quick and easy to navigate the train right to our holiday camp with only about a half mile walk from the station to our camp site. The camp is in the city right on the edge of a small National Park so it felt like we were in the country, all you could hear was birds, bugs, and more birds! It was beautiful, I felt so excited there was wild life every where, we saw lizards, birds, and thank god no snakes! We set up our tent and anxious to explore headed right back to the train to head into downtown to see the opera house and harbor bridge.
As we made our way into town the clouds broke and it became sunny (fine as they say down under), we walked around the harbor and every view of the opera house and around the harbor was stunning. Up close we saw that the roof was made of tiles placed perfectly in patterns. We sat on the steps of the opera house for a while and took in the city sites, we both decided that Sydney was probably one the largest cities that either of us had ever been to with a massive downtown and skyline and development everywhere in the harbor which went far beyond what we could see. Across from the opera house was the botanical garden, while this is usually not the kind of place Paul and I would go out of our way to see, we thought it would be a good way to spend the afternoon in the sunshine.
The garden was so pretty and we had a really good time roaming around it. There were trees and plants from all over the world and around every corner something new to check out. We saw a ton of yellow crested cockatoos, crazy ibis birds with long curved beaks, lorikeets, and even flying fox ie: fruit bats! The bats were big and hanging around in the day light right in the city! I love Australia and all of its wild life, it's was so exciting to have every corner of the garden showcase an exotic animal and plant I have never seen before.
We made it to a grocery store and back to camp by late evening and went right to cooking diner. While in the kitchen we chatted with three young Germans that were working there way around Australia. They were nice but very young and it seemed not into the same things as us so it was a bit hard to a find things to talk about with them. We all chatted about the bad weather all of our friends and families were having back home. They celebrate Christmas day in Germany on the 24th so they were cooking frozen chicken schnitzel. After a little while we were getting tired so wished them a merry Christmas and headed to bed to listen to the laughing Kookaburra's all night.
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