Our main aim today is to help Jerlene achieve a feat that not many 8 months old baby can. So far, Jerlene has travelled on land and in the air. And today, she will go onto the sea! Yes, we are going to hop onto a ferry and go to several places on water. After today, Jerlene has officially accomplished the feat of experiencing land, air and sea (海, 陆, 空) travel.
We started the day by purchasing daytripper tickets that allow us to travel by train, bus and ferry within Sydney vicinity. We took the train to Circular Quay where the wharf for ferry embarkation is. The moment we stepped onto the floating platform of the wharf, Tracy began to feel a bit giddy (sea sick kind of feeling). Jerlene seemed ok. She's so steady compared to her Mommy.....hehe.......
Our first destination is Luna Park, which is an amusement park just minutes away by ferry ride. When we reached the jetty, somehow we kept assuming everybody will disembark. However, I suddenly realized that those who did not alight are going to other destination. Tracy and I quickly grabbed our stuff and got out of the ferry just in time.......
At the entrance of Luna Park, we had a great view of harbour bridge with Opera House in the background. Jerlene got excited the moment she saw the big head of Luna at the entrance.
Actually Luna Park is way below our expectation. To me, it is just a normal amusement park with simple rides and games stalls. And it is quite small in terms of area. Worst thing is, today is a super hot day. Weather forecast said it was 32 degree celcius. As such, we did not stay there for long. We only spent about half an hour in the park (Free Entry).
We headed back to Circular Quay and took another ferry to Birkenhead, which we saw on some brochure that it has a factory outlet. Everyday, there are only two ferry timings to Birkenhead. One is at 9am and the other is at 3:21pm. By the time we reached there, it was already close to 4pm. And guess what, the shops close at 5pm today. That means we only have about one hour to shop. Not surprisingly, we only bought a few items (mainly for Jerlene of cos) before going back to the jetty to catch the ferry back. We did not manage to walk into more than half of the shops there. We tell ourselves, WE WILL BE BACK!!!! :-)
On our ferry back, I managed to capture the sunset. And by the time we reached the harbour bridge, it was already quite dark. We then took another ferry to Darling Harbour, walked to a nearby Japanese food outlet for dinner before heading back to EdgeCliff.
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