November 1, Sydney Australia
Whew!! Are we bushed! What a fabulous day we had. The tour was arranged through Activity Tours (www.activitytours.com.au) and I can highly recommend them. Very reasonable rates for what you get, and very knowledgeable.
We started the day off at Featherdale Wildlife Sanctuary ($22 entrance fee was included in our $82 tour cost). We only had about 45 minutes there and wished we could have stayed all day. The sanctuary isn’t large, but most of the animals are not caged. Koala’s can be touched and pictures taken, kangaroo’s are easily accessible, native birds fly freely about, and what other animals are caged, they are easily seen without fencing in the way. There some areas where some of the birds are caged primarily to keep them in an environment that they are familiar with. It is definitely a photographers dream as animals are very easy to see. This was the highlight of the tour in our opinion.
The rest of the tour was very good as well, especially the Skyway, Scenicsender (both are essentially cable cars), and the steepest railway (52 degrees, down). $25 gets you a combined ticket to ride all three and well worth it.
The river cruise back to the ship was nice and provided a totally different perspective of the harbor area.
It was a ten hour day of interesting sites, and well worth it. Tomorrow we are on our own again and will most likely spend the morning in the botanic gardens and then wander about town for a bit. We sail at 6:30pm form our next stop, Melbourne.
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