Part 1. Since we had not walked around the Chinese Garden we started in the morning with a gentle walk round. These very attractive landscaped gardens were designed and built by the Chinese for the bicentennial celebrations, with local stone selected and shaped to appear to represent dragons among the other symbols they like to use.
There is a large central waterfall feeding interlinked pools.
Plenty of pagoda style pavilions.
and lush ferns
Dragon bridges have zig-zag shapes so they cannot chase you across....
Some pagodas have several tiers,
There are hundreds of Koi carp and a few water lilies in flower
and gates have Chinese characters inscribed on their columns
In the afternoon we took a harbour cruise with a Captain Cook catamaran.
Here is the sleek and very fast vessel we went to explore the harbour waters in. Carol has always said that she can get sea sick just going around a harbour, but she was fine - catamarans are very stable.
We didn't need this......
You get a fantastic view of the iconic Sydney Harbour bridge, and can see groups of people climbing the bridge and walking across the highest span.
Just past the bridge is the superb Sydney opera house, and as one gets further out, numerous yachts.
The bridge is quite marvellous up close.
and the sails of the Opera House face into the open waters.
Sometimes you can see a yacht in the same view as bridge and Opera House, with matching sails.
After our 2 hour cruise we walked to the "Rocks" and back through central Sydney, about an hour + of walking, and very tired feet at the end of it.
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