A man with a long stick with fishing line and stuffed dog was sitting motionless fishing in the drainage grate. I thought the fisherman really showed some imagination. Another man had a long and tiresome act that ended with him on a 16' unicycle juggling fire sticks. And another man who stood on the shoulders of two men from the crowd and juggled his fire sticks. They carefully reminded each crowd that they made their living doing this. One even told the crowd that he wouldn't accept change, just dollars.
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There was also a clown making balloon animals for the kids and poking fun at the stranger people in the crowd and a giant koala for having one's picture taken. Playing music they obviously loved, were two old men sitting on boxes. Down the wharf was an oriental geisha type with lots of strings. All in all, Bill and I had a fun walk around Circular Quay.
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We stopped for dinner at a restaurant in Cockle Bay, which is part of Darling Harbor. We both decided on prawns (shrimp) for $24 each. That included two pieces of bread but not enough shrimp for a meal. All through our trip we were amazed at the price of food. The bottomless glass of tea or pop hasn't reached down under. Before it became prevalent in the states I once had enough tea that my meal cost less than the tea!
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The up hill walk back to our hotel was just about enough to do us both in. Then early to bed to be up and ready for our harbor cruise in the morning.
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