It's a damned GORGEOUS harbour at the worst of times, and NYE is not the worst of times to be out on it.
The usual harbour ferries cease activity early on NYE and are decked out in lights and prepped to receive parties who've paid for a ticket. There are various degrees of cruises, with various promotions - ours was a family-oriented, no-alcohol one.
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Afterwards, B1 had booked a hotel for two nights (because they won't let you book just one over NYE) so we just moseyed up from the harbour to the hotel and avoided all the public transport snarls caused by the storm. Apparently lightning struck something at Central and delays and the pared-down public transport system (thank you, conservatives) meant people took hours to get home...
I think we might have been in bed before some of the people leaving the shoreline at midnight got on a train headed home. :/
Anyway, that was NYE on Sydney Harbour. I don't think we'll do that for another decade or so, but it was fun to do the once.
The usual harbour ferries cease activity early on NYE and are decked out in lights and prepped to receive parties who've paid for a ticket. There are various degrees of cruises, with various promotions - ours was a family-oriented, no-alcohol one.
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Afterwards, B1 had booked a hotel for two nights (because they won't let you book just one over NYE) so we just moseyed up from the harbour to the hotel and avoided all the public transport snarls caused by the storm. Apparently lightning struck something at Central and delays and the pared-down public transport system (thank you, conservatives) meant people took hours to get home...
I think we might have been in bed before some of the people leaving the shoreline at midnight got on a train headed home. :/
Anyway, that was NYE on Sydney Harbour. I don't think we'll do that for another decade or so, but it was fun to do the once.
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