Sydney!!!!

On April 10th, we finally arrived in Sydney... or rather, drove through it.

In the middle of rush hour traffic.... Thank God I had convinced the motorhome rental company to include the Toll Package, so we were able to use the paid tunnel in Sydney, and it was relatively empty....

Our campsite was located in a suburb north of Sydney. I spent a long time looking for a place that was easy to reach Sydney from and met our daughter's requirements as well...

Did everything right

And we were also satisfied.

Right by the beach

With a magnificent sunrise at the beach pool

The waves were breaking there.....😍

Awesome

The next morning, we went to Woolworths to get each of us an Opal card. It's the easiest way to pay for public transportation here. You simply load credit onto it and then tap it on the machines on the bus, train, or ferry when getting on and off.... because everything here has its own fare, some buses are prepaid only, so you can only ride if you already have a ticket.... it's all very complicated.... without the Opal card....

But we now had 2, children under 4 ride for free :-)

On the first day, we wanted to go to the zoo.... they say it's great in Sydney and they even have platypuses.... So I booked a combo ticket online with the zoo and 2 days of hop on hop off ferry. But we had to pick up the tickets at Circular Quay, even though it would have been shorter to go directly to the zoo.... but whatever.... we're already taking our first ferry ride. But first, we took the bus to the city, which went smoothly.... then a short walk to Circular Quay and off we go.

The best way to sightsee in 30 degrees.... by ferry

The next highlight followed immediately.... riding a cable car over the zoo with a magnificent view of Sydney....