Bus tour. Ship darture

Larry here, we did the bus tour this am, it was quite informative, but a bit of a pain as the driver is the only one on board so some of the stops are long as he is selling tickets to dimwits like us who don't know what they want, plus he's trying to pressure people into buying more expensive all  inclusive tickets to see other crap.  We stopped at the Royal Botanical Gardens,  now that was a heart stopping experience, so much so that I don't think I can do that and the high altitude bridge walk in this lifetime.

These two trees

Are in the botanical gardens.  It's amazing how large they grow, but without snow, ice and cyclones there's really nothing to harm them.  One of the funnier stories on the bus was about a famous Australian sculptor who gave one of his sculptures to Quantas airlines in return for unlimited tickets for a certain period.  Quantas promptly auctioned it off for $2.8 million.   I'm off to the bridge to try and see another ship sail, I continue this diatribe when I return.  L

Well here she is backing out of her berth, I'm in the middle of the bridge,  I thought she would be steaming under the bridge but I was disorientated, must be the sun, anyways inspite of that she got off fine.  In the pic below our hotel would be at the extreme right, from bridge centre to hotel about 15-20 minutes.  When I returned to our room Beth was supposed to been cooking dinner, but she revolted.  Luckily on my way back from the bridge It had been quite dry and dusty so I'd stopped at a little hotel on the way and overheard someone mention how good the pizza was, sooooo off we went, and they were right, it was great.  That's it for now, tomorrow we'll probably do some sort of harbour tour or ferry ride to Bonding beach.    L