Sydney & Manly-Post #2 “A Day in Sydney!”

Monday was set aside to allow for recovery from the jet-lag before our training sessions start on Monday. I met up with the whole HP DH team in the morning at our hotel; Jared Walker, Giorgio Capellani, Ray Giles and Dr. Vinod.

We spent all morning and a bit of the afternoon exploring Royal Botanic Gardens.

Ray and the Sydney Opera House
A view across the bay to Mrs Macquarie’s Chair and The Domain – Yurong Precinct
Jared hiding in the tree
Downtown Sydney
The Main Pond
Yikes!
What kind of fruit tree is that!!! Wait! That’s not fruit… that’s fruit bats!
Not fruit but fruit bats!
See!!!
… and dangerous animals to boot!
… and Cockatoos
YuraBirong statue
What a view!
Downtown

After a light lunch, we got ready for our ferry ride from downtown out towards Manly.

Our personal water taxi!
Jared and the Opera House
Sydney Harbour Bridge
Approaching the jetty at our destination
Our first sight of the main buildings
We’ve arrived at the Q Station… Q stands for Quarantine!

Sydney Quarantine Station
From the 1830s until 1984, migrant ships arriving in Sydney with suspected contagious disease stopped inside North head and offloaded passengers and crew into quarantine to protect local residents. As Australia’s longest continuously operating quarantine station, the site has undergone significant change over time. Today Q Station provides heritage accommodation housed across the 30-hectare Sydney Harbour National Park at North Head

RMS Lusitania arrived July 21, 1895… she was sunk by a German U-boat in 1915 near Ireland
The Samuel Plimsoll arrived in 1879

We settled into our accommodations and met up with many of the incoming attendees.