Another hot and sunny morning. We had a couple of hours to fill in between checking out of the hotel and going to the ship. So we decided to leave our bags at the hotel and spend our time visiting the nearby Chinese Gardens. On the way we stopped to see people practising for the forthcoming new year, a very colourful dragon. The gardens were larger than we expected, very beautiful and peaceful. The water was full of large and multicoloured Koi Carp. We got a taxi to the cruise terminal and very quickly we were through all the fomalities and onboard our ship. The view from our stateroom is the Sydney Opera House.
