Big Ships meet in Sydney Harbour

On the weekend Sun, 24 February 2008, Evan, A.Cath and myself went out to see the big ships, Queen Victoria and QEII sail out of and into of Sydney Harbour, respectively.

Evan drove to Bradleys Head. We left around 5pm, cos Evan said we didn't need to get out there that early. But when we got there, they had closed off the car park and we had to park up the road towards Taronga Zoo, and walk to the point. Although we had a good view of the harbour with the two ships and all, the sun was not in the right position for us, and so most of the photos were over exposed or under. Too sunny, but with lots of clouds. The harbour was buzzing with the sound of helicopters, I counted at least 12, but I think there was more.

At the appointed time of 6.30pm, the two ships rounded Fort Denison, with the Queen Victoria sailing out as the QEII sailed into berth at the Shipping Terminal. They sounded their horns, but it didn't seem as loud, as the time we sailed in Vancouver.

As the Queen Victoria left the Harbour, so many little boats and ferries followed behind it, it looked like the pied piper.

From there we drove to Mosman, to get a closer look at the QEII, here, Evan spied John Mangos doing a news feed for Sky News. A.Cath and myself had no idea who he was, but the face looked familiar. At least Evan knew who he was, having seen him on "It Takes Two". After taking a few photos here, we drove to The Rocks, looking to getting a closer view of the big ship. We thought we had found the perfect parking spot, but it turned out to be a 24hr No Parking driveway. We didn't see the sign, until after Evan had squeezed us into the spot. Oh well, we tried. No other parking spots around that were closer, so we head home.

Chinese New Year

The Year of the Rat
February 2008

These are the lantern floats which were used in the CNY parade. A.Cath., Evan, Janet and I went out to watch the parade. Chinatown was packed full of people.

They also used the lanterns to decorate Darling Harbour, when the dragonboat races were on. Went out on both days to see the racing action.