Sydney Opera House

This is the view walking to the opera house you can see how big the cruise ship is covering Sydney harbour bridge!

We went to see Le Grand Cirque Adrenaline which was fantastic!

Sydney at night after the show.

Sydney Fish Market

Kate got dragged to the Fish market today by Mark- as he kept saying its the second biggest in the world (  the 1st is in Japan), so off we trotted to see all the different types of fish that was on offer!

Anyone for lobster ?

It was pretty amazing to see and even got of bit of cooked fish ourselves-yummy!

360 Sky tower bar

360 Restaurant meal courtesy of Baldy & Jo for our wedding pressie!

Harbour bridge view from 360.

We had a delicious meal with views all round Sydney in this rotating restaurant - brilliant!!

Thanks guys ;-)

You can see 360 by day , tall thin tower to the left!

Bondi beach

This is the world famous Bondi beach.  We spent a few hours down here watching the surf & swimmers!

Sydney Blue Mountains

We caught the train up to Katoomba to see the Blue Mountains with the hope that the weather might Clear!

It didn't as you can see but it was lovely to have a walk in the fresh air and smell the Eucalyptus.

This is the viewing areas for the '3 sisters' , below is what we could of had!

This is the worlds steepest train that we went down and got the cable car back up.

Sydney Bridge Climb

Need we say more!

A walk past Darling Harbour on route to the bridge climb.

We aimed to climb the bridge in time for sunset.  You get harnessed up and climb up 5 steep ladders before reaching the arch and then to the top where you can see the flags.  At the top the heavens opened & electrical storm began, we got down pretty fast, scary!

Sydney New Years day !

After making it home safe we wandered into town for some pub lunch at Lord Nelsons. 

A view of Sydney at dusk from the opera house.

The Bridge Lit up at night.

We caught the Ferry to Luna Fun Park!

Sydney Opera house by night

Sydney New Years Eve

We spent 3 hours queueing up to get into the botanical gardens fromm 11am along with another 20,000 people!  We had met up with friends from Fiji & awaited the New Celebrations.

The fireworks went off at 9pm and midnight and was an amazing display.

The boats were all lit up too.

The fireworks glistening off the water!

Adelaide Christmas

We had Christmas with the Barratts which was lovely, we went to the beach for the day then a BBQ at night! You can't get more Aussie than that. Eve got some new make-up form Santa and helped me and Jen get ready for a big night out!

Millie & Mollie the new Jack Russel puppies were a big hit!

We Kids (Jack,  Mark & Keith) spent most the time dive bombing in & out the pool!

It's a hard life in Oz - shame to leave :-(

Melbourne

We had a flying visit to Melbourne- literally overnight so we tried to cram in as much as possible.  The free  city tram certainly helped with this as we were tired after a 3am start and 2 hour time difference.  This is Melbourne Harbour with a view over the city.

Melbourne has a fabulous market called Queen Victoria Market - it sell everything from Fish, Meat , Veg, cheeses, chocolate, clothes, toiletries to clothes to Santa hats!!  It was even on the news on Christmas Eve as over 60,000 people were expected to visit for their  Christmas lunch BBQ  bits - it was Chaos!

This is our hostel in Melbourne, its in the old Salvation Army building - not bad hey!