We started the morning by heading to Starbucks (which, despite all the amazing indie coffee shops, I really miss in Perth), grabbed some coffees and then walked straight over to jump on the whale watching cruise.
I was lucky enough to go whale watching in New Zealand a few years ago, but it's pretty high on Dan's bucket list. I had everything crossed that we'd see some whales, and see some we did, within about 10 minutes of leaving Sydney harbour we found some calfs and their mumma..
We had just under three hours on the water, which was definitely long enough to find the whales and watch them for some time. I just wish I'd had a zoom lens with me- and that the boat wasn't so rocky so the images were a bit sharper. If you're prone to motion sickness I would highly recommend having a packet of sickness tablets in your bag, we went on a 'calm' day and it was non stop rocking!
We were back in Circular quay just after lunch time so jumped on the hop on hop off bus for a tour of the city and world famous Bondi beach!
From the city it was a short 30 minutes to Bondi beach, on the way we'd decided to hire surfboards and spend the afternoon sipping juice on the beach between playing in the surf...
Unfortunately (as I'm sure you can tell from the photos) the weather turned nasty, and just after we took these photos the heavens opened! Our plan of an afternoon on the beach were ruined, so we head back on the bus to the city.
Once we were back we head to the Sydney tower eye, which is located on top of Westfield, lucky for us the weather came back on our side and the sun came out just as we arrived. I love watching busy cities from above so knew I wanted to do this as soon as we booked our flights. After getting tickets you walk through some hallways filled with facts about building the tower before going into a short 4d movie about Sydney, from there a quick security check (which I thought was really weird, especially as the security guard barely looked in my bag) before hopping in the elevator and whizzing up to the viewing deck...
We sat in the window ledge watching the city rush beneath us, for me it's almost a euphoric feeling, being so high up away from all the hustle and bustle- anyone else? We stayed there long enough to watch the sun start to set but realised the sky was too clear for a beautiful sunset so head back to our hotel after a while.
Have you been to Sydney before? What activities / adventures did you have?
xo