8 April 2017, Sydney Harbour.

With the next post we will resume to journey to South Georgia in the South Atlantic.  First, though, we will have a brief interlude with the BluesCruise on Sydney Harbour that we attended last weekend at the invitation of organiser Tony Cini.

We drove down from Canberra, stayed the night at Cremorne on the north side of the harbour and caught a ferry in the morning to Circular Quay, in the city near the Opera House.  From there we walked but got confused by another Pier #6 on the way and nearly missed the ferry (thanks to Jools for working it out!).

.

This is the first band, the PJ O’Brien band.

.

.

.

We were sailing around the harbour for four hours so there was plenty of thime to observe sights on the way.  This is a curious boat-launching dock on the side of a Navy ship, maybe a destroyer.  The seats in it are also curiously high.

.

Sydney Harbour Bridge of course in the background.

.

Some of the more interesting sights are always the older, somewhat more derelict-looking ones.

.

.

.

Finger food was plentiful and gratefully appreciated.

.

Michelle van der Meer’s band is now playing.  She is looking up to the people around the opening on the upper deck.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

.

Some people who live at the side of the harbour do not appear to be impoverished.

.

An outpost of an exclusive Catholic private school.

.

Nearby boatshed, yacht and canoes.

.

.

.

.

.

There were many yachts on the water, many with children in them.

.

Here there is a launch with parents mixed in with the yachts with children.

.

Enough wind to fill a spinnaker.

.

And then some were in the water rather than on it.

.

The third and final band – Tony Cini backed by PJ O’Brien’s band.

.

Some colourful workshops.

.

And now we are heading back to the Darling Harbour wharf.

.

.

.

.

.

Back on the dance floor…

.

…and back with the band…

.

… as the audience appreciates the last numbers….

.

.

For those that might want to see more images, there is a JAlbum slideshow here with 17 more, including a few before and after the cruise.