FACT: You might be lucky enough and it will happen or not at all LIKE ME and just see them in the distance swimming away from you.
Anyways so I would take you back to the start of the day. It was a sunny day, so I decided to wear a sleeveless shirt, jeans and just a small and thin sweater. As usual, I had to take the train to the city and I was unsure on where should I get off near the harbour bridge or far away and have a walk.
The decision was made based on how much time I had before I needed to be on the boat so... WALKING was the winner. I hopped off the train at the town hall station, which is just under the QVB building.
So I walked all Pitt St. which is full of different stores and there is a Westfield mall, which I have to say it's pretty big. Anyways I did not buy anything, except an Australian flag because I'M ON A BUDGET (and I don't have space in my suitcases *insert annoyed face emoji here*). As I walked I got to see a little bit more of the city.
After just keep going straight down Pitt street I arrived at Circular Quay, where all the ferries and cruises arrive or depart, with an hour to kill before I had to be on the boat. As most of the time I was hungry and kinda forgot to pack other than snacks so I went to get so McDonalds. (FUN FACT: Australians call it Maccas) Well, I sat down around the little park they have there, ate my food, and still had like 40 mins !
I literally just walked around the place for around 20 min and the I decided to just sit on a bench and wait until the boat arrived. Eventually around 1:50 we boarded and 2:00 sharp we left. It wasn't too cold when we left and were around the opera house. As we got far from the harbour it got colder, and even though I was cold I was able to get a cool shot of the opera house and harbour bridge.
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| Okay, it could be better but I did not take my camera |
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| Sydney from far away |
Leaving the harbour behind, you could see how the different beaches around Sydney and cool houses. Like the one that has a big AF pool that a friend told me, I should look for. (SHOUT OUT TO THE COOL IRISH I KNOW NIAMH !) I was way too distracted with the house that I forgot to take a picture, but take my word it was A DREAM HOUSE.
Eventually, we started to get to open ocean, it got so freaking cold but my dumb self did not think about that and was freezing, an you had a beautiful and peaceful sight of the ocean. (which at this point I was falling asleep all to the movement of the boat)
After around a good hour of just sailing, we were told there were some whales around. We moved around the boat to be able to see them. As I mentioned before the whales did not jump or came close to get a great picture. We only spotted a pod of 2 whales, that according to the guide were migrating to the north, they just swam and kept doing their thing.
While we were all taking pictures and observing, I realized that my hands were frozen LITERALLY I couldn't move my fingers on my left hand from my phone and I have to say I WAS LEGIT SCARED. I ended up going inside as soon as we were told we had to head back. All I did in our ride back was trying to warm up, it kinda worked out.
After we arrived back to circular quay I had to speed walk to the train station to catch the train that would take me to the train station where I could get my usual train back home. I was able to catch both trains just in time to leave. I was back just in time to have dinner and then go out ! ;) <--- (But that's for another post)
Well that's mostly all from my whale watching adventure
I'll leave more pictures down
Til then stay tuned for more
Bye Felicia
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| Trying to smile while freezing |
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