Australia Day 4 - Sydney

This morning we drove over the Harbor Bridge into downtown Sydney, and managed to find our way to the Opera House Car Park.

We toured the Opera House. It was pretty interesting, and not too expensive. There are actually five theaters located there, the large Concert Hall, which seats over 2,000 people, the Opera theater, which seats about half that, and three smaller theaters, which are used for plays and smaller concerts and recitals.

Then we went to the Museum of Sydney, which was a lot cheaper. It was built adjacent to the location of the first government building in Sydney, and they marked where the foundation was in the area in front of the museum.

We then walked through part of the botanical gardens on our way back to the car park.  

We stayed at a new hotel in Blacktown, a suburb west of Sydney, next to the new Wet n wild park. Anyone thinking of doing a driving vacation in Australia should make sure they either have a plan that supports their smart phone with a map feature, or buy a gps. It is really easy to get lost here, the road signs don't tell you which direction a road goes, it just tells you which town it goes to next, so unless you know the area well, it is really easy to get turned around and have no idea how to get back to where you want to go.