Taronga Zoo
Today we took the ferry over to the zoo after walking to the circular quay. It is a nice walk through Hyde Park. We finally used up the balance on our Opal cards and started using our phones to get on and off public transportation. We have been using our phones for all of our purchases and this just makes it easier. Our credit cards are saved using Apple Pay. No need to carry a wallet, cash, or credit cards but we do need the battery backups that we each have. The app for finding public transportation and the map app both use GPS and drain the battery on our phones very quickly.
Clearest day we have had since we arrived. Sunny and hot.
The zoo was nice but finding our way around wasn’t very intuitive. I did download the zoo app on the free zoo wifi but the wifi signal was spotty throughout the park and the map directions took us way out of the way for each site we searched for. The zoo is obviously designed for kids. We are way out of our league here.
After the zoo we had a drink at the circular quay and then walked back to the apartment.
We took an Uber to Bel and Brio restaurant that was near the aquarium. We were very familiar with the area as it was the bus drop off spot when we were here on the world cruise.
The dress here suggested that most of the clientele was coming here from work. We have yet to feel that we were under dressed for any restaurant. Nothing greater than a business casual seems to exist here but the people on the street are definitely dressed up a level or two from what we see back at home. The black yoga pants that people stuff themselves in to are not part of the dress here.
We decided to walk the 1.3 miles back to the apartment. It was a nice evening and the streets were jammed with people.…