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Published: January 18th 2007
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Sunday Harbour Cruise.
They say a picture is worth a 1000 words.There are quite a few in this blog.
On Monday I caught the train to Circular Quay downtown Sydney to go on the "Coffee Cruise" on the Captain Cook Cruises
As an aside,an interesting thing about the trains,they are double decker's,on the platform you enter the train and there are about 20 seats on that level then you have the option also of going downstairs to the lower deck or up to the upper deck a good utilisation of space.They don't really look any bigger than the trains in the U.K. The other point I found out was that you swivel the top part of the seat so that you could face the way the train was travelling
At Circular Quay I purchased the ticket and boarded the Captain Cook
Sydney Harbour estuary has formed one of the largest natural harbours in the world, with the estuary being 19 km long and 55 square kilometers in area. There are 68 bays and coves within that area .It really is immense the cruise took two hours ,and it really only covered the Bay going out towards
the heads (the Entrance to the Bay)and not round to Darling Harbour and up to the Olympic Stadium and beyond.
Going on River Cat to explore that part later in the week.
I find it amazing that Capt Cook logged it as a small cove and named it Port Jackson but had not further explored and went on to land at Botany Bay in 1770.
However, almost 18 years later, when Captain Arthur Phillip and the First Fleet arrived in early 1788 to establish an outpost and penal colony, they found that Botany Bay and surrounds did not live up to the promising picture that had been painted. Instead, Phillip gave orders to relocate to a harbour a few kilometres to the North It was in this harbour, at a place Phillip named Sydney Cove , that the settlement of Sydney was established.
Since those early days Sydney and it's harbour has become famous for it's tourism,its notable beaches and it's two icons the Sydney Opera House and the Harbour Bridge
There are some really amazing houses with incredible price tags and some very fine Colonial buildings.
All in all a fascinating and super day
made by the splendid weather .
Tomorrow the "Sydney Bridge Climb"
Phileas
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