well...i went whale-less watching.
what is this whale-less watching you may ask?
oh, well let me explain it to you.
whale-less watching [verb]: paying a company to take you on a boat out into the great ocean blue so you can NOT see whales in their natural habitat.
also, i'm pretty sure about 90% of the people on the boat lost their cookies.
incredibly disgusting, i assure you.
but, to stay positive, i think the ocean is absolutely beautiful so it wasn't terrible and i still enjoyed myself.
i obviously didn't get sick on the boat.
here are some pictures of the excursion:::
a perfect view of the whale-less ocean.
pirate ship! ...ok not really. apparently there is this thing where younger kids go out on this boat to learn how to man a ship and such...super rad, right?!
on the way out...this is part of watson's bay...i'm pretty sure.27.05.2010
every winter (yes, it's winter here...), sydney puts on this "festival" if you will, called "Vivid Sydney"...here's a little excerpt about it:
every winter (yes, it's winter here...), sydney puts on this "festival" if you will, called "Vivid Sydney"...here's a little excerpt about it:
"From 27 May to 21 June 2010, Vivid Sydney brings together large scale light installations and projections, music performances, creative ideas, stimulating discussions and debates, showcasing Sydney as a major creative hub in the Asia-Pacific Region."
Today (the 27th of may), i went to the opening ceremony..."the lighting of the sails"...for those of you who don't know what this means...the sydney opera house was designed to look like a the sails of a ship...so "the lighting of the sails" is just what it sounds like, they light up the "sails" of the lighthouse. here are a few pictures...the images changed every 5 minutes or so.
later on in the festival, they lit up different parts of the city...it started at St. Mary's Cathedral and went all the way to Sydney Harbour and ended with the Opera House (which stayed lit during the entire vivid sydney festival)...it was really beautiful...but my camera took a dive in the ocean when i was in Cairns...i managed to save the memory card (yes i know i haven't written about that trip yet...i will when i get back to the states and can upload photos)...so i took pictures with a friend's camera...and he has yet to upload those pictures.
buuut....yeahhh...that sums up my australian adventures up until my study break in Cairns :]
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