The summer is peaking, the days are becoming longer. The nights are cool, but they are short! The Sun rises by 6 and sets by 8:30. I think I have never seen this before. So I was always thinking that long days are good and was looking forward to them. It is good to have long days during vacation but for working days, it is a problem. You feel like it is only getting dark for taking your supper, and end up in miscalculating the time to settle down while will make you tired waking up the next day morning (it is anyway a tough thing to get up at 7:30, but now blame it on the Sun).
We had our limitation that we can’t walk too much, and have to be always in places where we can get something to eat or drink. It is not summer, if you misunderstand.
We started by 3 in the evening, the Sun stays at the top from 12 to 3 before climbing down J ! So getting out at 3 is as good as starting by 12. We had to get to bus for Circular quay from Central as there was some maintenance work happening.
It was a straight forward plan. We always get tired or late by the time we reach the gates of the Botanical gardens which is right in front of the Opera house. The gates close normally by 6 and in summer by 7. It is open to public. One side of it covered by the sea, the other side merges with the Hyde park. The Botanical garden contains some view points which gives you a fantastic opportunity to take the Harbour Bridge behind the Opera house (Picture).
There was a huge party happening in the sea-facing side. They call it the schoolies party, which is the school final year’s party. It is a big event here, and it is organised under the Schoolies banner than one for each school. So that area was fully crowded and noisy. The water in front of them also was full of boats may be owned by the students, containing 6 -7 students, and some people in the water too! And all of them drunk, to their limits. 
But even that 500 -600 people party was just a corner of the park. We had to walk through the road in between the sea and the party, nothing annoyed except the noisy music. People are drunk, and that too teenagers. But still, we didn’t see any kind of indecent behaviour from them to the passer-bys. They were enjoying, true, but there it ends!
We walked to ‘Mrs.Mcquarie’s chair’ where you get the best of the Sydey-duo (Picture). And, it was very true! I have never seen them together like this for a snap! Again, we met with a lot of people in the just-married attire with their best people, taking snaps from there (Picture). The photographers/video-graphers were competing and queuing to take pictures of their clients. We had to find some odd spots from the sea shore, to get a picture, being unable to compete with the marriage crowd (picture).We spent sometime sitting on the rocks near the water. Walked back to the internal of the green; there was a marriage going on in the meadow with a glorious small crowd (Picture). It seems the place has been used for private functions!
Taking snaps of these functions, we walked to circular quay back. Outside the gates there was two marriage parties waiting at the gates for the toy train to pick them up in to the Botanical garden.
It was already 7. We slowly walked to towards the other side of the quay. The sky was getting dark slowly, as it was a cloudy day. The sea breeze was cool or even chilly when the summer has begun already and the day was hot too! We got a good view of Opera House in Twilight from the other side of the quay (Picture at the top). That side had a lot of restaurants; we tried to find one for us. There was an Italian restaurant which had neither pizza nor pasta! All of them specialized with Sea food L. So couldn’t do much there. To the railway bus stop for the substituting buses to get back to the Central and train from there back home.
Tailpiece : Australia is hotter than what I thought ! Sydney is not that bad in terms of temperature, but I think we feel the heat because of the variations. One day it will be maximum 20 and the next day it will jump to 30 or 32. Still, the nights are 17-18 normally. But the middle part of Australia and the northern part is very hot. Places like Darwin shows in 40s !
