Day 2 Around Sydney

On our way to the ferry, we saw a pretty good street entertainer and took a little video.

To get around the harbor, people take ferries or water taxis

We eventually ended up at the Hard Rock, but didn't eat there. Food here is more expensive than we've seen it anywhere in the world.

But the highlight of the day, and maybe one of the best of the trip, was a short visit the National Opal Museum. It is actually a store (and there are way too many opal stores here, we've simply stopped going in them). Bu this one is different. One part in the back is the jewelry store, and pretty nice. But the front part is a museum of opals taken to a whole new level. It is a phenomenal collection of black opal fossils- not just a few shells, but crinoids and starfish and logs and sheets of clams and dinosaur teeth and ribs and claws and most of all, a nearly fully reticulated pleiosaur ( a whale  like dinosaur that returned to the  sea about 100 million years ago). This skeleton is 6 feet long and made entirely of fire opal. What a national treasure.