Skipping Tuesday



Platypus at Sydney Aquarium

 We arrived Sydney Airport Wednesday morning at 6 AM, skipping Tuesday altogether.  After clearing customs, collecting our bags and purchasing an Optus donngle for the Internet, we shuttled to the Vibe Hotel on Goulburn Street.  What luck, our room was available and we checked in.  After showers, we walked down to Darling Harbour on a wonderful sunny morning. Cockle Bay at harbour's head looks something like Baltimore's Inner Harbor - lots of  restaurants lining the walk around bay. 

Just to see the platypus, we made the Aquarium our first tour stop.  The platypus, much smaller than I had imagined, was extremely lively, zooming all over the place.  Also zooming around were lots of uniformed school children filling out multi page assignment sheets.  Among all the down under sea life, also on view: the Napoleon Wrasse,  fairy penguins  and dugongs (looks like manatees to me)

After a little lunch and a walk back to our hotel, I promptly fell asleep.
 
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