Our last stop before heading back to the good ole USA was probably the most well know city in Australia - Sydney. We started our adventures off with a tour of the city to see all the different activities and attractions that the city had to offer.
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| We stopped to get a few pictures with the iconic Sydney Opera House. |
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| Nice picture of the Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. |
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| We stopped for a little break at one of the most famous and probably the smallest beach that I have ever seen. Bondi Beach |
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| We were in Australia during August which is still summertime in the US, but it is actually winter in Australia. There were still a few people out swimming in the 50-60 degree water. |
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| Jennifer had no desire to test out the water. I would love to return for a trip to Australia to celebrate a new year. It is summer for them and they have a huge beach celebration and since they are one of the first countries to welcome in a new year they have a huge party and massive fireworks display while everyone is at the beach. |
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| We didn't realized how big of a deal climbing this bridge actually is until we came home. Now it is something that I think we will have to accomplish if we ever make it back. |
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| Jennifer and I really just tried to enjoy are last few days of vacation and we really didn't have any major plans that we wanted to accomplish while in Sydney. So we just took in all the sites. We really enjoyed walking around the Royal Botanical Gardens. Even though it was winter they still had a lot of pretty flowers in there garden. |
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| Just an interesting tree that I decided to take a picture with. However, after the picture and we were walking away we noticed that a couple was getting pretty intimate on the other side. So we carried on about our business and continued on our garden tour. |
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| Taking a little rest on our garden walk. Downtown Sydney in the background. |
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| We spotted these up in the trees and couldn't figure out what they were until got closer and then realized that they were the biggest bats that we had ever seen. There were also hundreds of them. |
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| Also spotted a pair of Cockatoo love birds. |
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| I wish flowers bloomed like this during our winter months. |
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| We couldn't pass up seeing Harry Potter on one of the largest IMax screens in the world. The screen was 117 feet tall which makes it a shade under 12 stories tall and 97 feet wide. It was definitely an amazing way to watch a movie. However, I am not sure how many moves we would go to see here because it cost $30 per person. |
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| We also took a trip to the Sydney Aquarium. Here we saw so many underwater creatures and it made us just wanted to head back to the Great Barrier Reef. Random event that happened was that a group of students who where touring the aquarium with us did an impromptu concert. It was neat and it was funny because they were singing old time American songs, one that I remembered was the Chattanooga Choo Choo. |
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| On our last night in Sydney we took a Sunset tour of the Sydney Harbour. I couldn't have thought of a better way to end our time in this wonderful country than holding close my beautiful wife and watching the sunset in Sydney Harbour. |
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| We did take a tour of the Sydney Opera House, but you were not allowed to take pictures. I tried to talk Jennifer into going to a show, but she talked me out of it because she said that I probably wouldn't like (which is true). The operas would not have been in English so we wouldn't have know what was going on except from all the action going on. |
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| A trip to Australia wouldn't be complete without trying their most famous condiment, Vegemite. We actually tried this on 2 different occasions. The first time I didn't have enough on the bread to really taste it, but the second time on a cracker I found out that I am truly no fan of Vegemite. I have no idea why anyone would want to eat this for actual enjoyment. I was able to bring home a few of these individual packets for family and friends to try here in the US. |
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| Here is the group of people that we traveled all over the county of Australia with. They were a really nice bunch of people and we have actually kept in touch with a few of them. |
Sadly our vacation to Australia couldn't last forever. We had an amazing time and we had some great adventures that we will surely never forget. I still can't believe sometimes that we actually went. I know that it is on so many people's bucket list and we can check it off our's. As I mentioned in the first part of this Australia blog series I mentioned that we had decided that this would be our last big trip before starting a family. Well just a few weeks after returning home we found out that we were expecting our first child. It couldn't have been a more perfect ending to our trip of a lifetime or should I say the end to our pre-children lives. I have been so blessed with an amazing wife who has a love for travel. We can't wait to experience more of this wonderful world. Thanks for reading and God bless!
We actually took some video footage while on our trip. Jennifer turned them into a couple little videos and put them on youtube. Here are the links.
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