April 25 - Today is ANZAC Day, which is similar to our Veteran's Day. We began the morning with a walking tour of downtown Sydney. During our stroll, we stopped and watched the ANZAC Day parade. It was very patriotic, with veterans, soldiers, marching bands, and flags.
Our walk ended in Darling Harbour, where we boarded a Captain Cook vessel for a Sydney Harbour lunch cruise. The food was a good, but the 2-hour cruise around the Harbour offered wonderful views of the city including the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
After the cruise, we visited Mrs. Macquaries Chair, which is a carved rock ledge seat where the governor's wife used to view the Harbour in 1810, and then on to Bondi Beach, famous for its surfing crowd.
The evening we were free to explore Sydney on our own. A few of us ventured to the Wildlife World and Aquarium to view native Australian animals. Some of the highlights included kangaroo, koalas, crocodiles, dugongs (cousin of manatees) along with the world's deadliest spiders, jellyfish, snakes and more.
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