Sparkly Sydney Saturday

Sitting on the dock of Rose Bay

Circular Quay

Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House

Dad's view on the ferry ride out of Circular Quay

"Do you want to take dad for a walk down to Rose Bay?"  Is the first thing my brother said to me Saturday morning.
"I suppose I could," I responded, one eye open.
It was a sparkly Sydney Saturday, the sun twinkling on the water as we whizzed over to grab dad from the care home.  We walked down Newcastle Street, then down to New South Head Road to pick up coffees and hot chocolate at the cafe in the park.  Sitting on the edge of Rose Bay, we watched the seaplanes take off and land, and the numerous boats enjoying the stunning day on the harbour. 

The Rose Bay ferry came into view, L looked and me and said, "We should take dad on the ferry!  It looks like the tide is up... we're here now."  We had been wanting to take him on the ferry... but had concerns about wheelchair access in low tide.  A quick search of the tide charts on the phone indicated the tide was up for a while.  We watched the ferry a few moments longer, looked at each other and said, "Let's do it."  So we trotted off to the ferry in time to watch in dock, and on we jumped.  Off we went to Double Bay.  I looked at Loren and said, "Oh no... dad's Sinemet... it's due in an hour."  Yep... hard to be spontaneous with a Parkinson's patient.  But then I remembered... I still had a pill in my purse from back in BC days... cuz you never know when you are going to need some Sinemet.  Quick call to Wentworth Manor to let them know the revised plan and that the pill would be taken on time, and we were all good!

From Double Bay the ferry took us to Circular Quay.  We considered getting out at Circular Quay and heading over to the Opera House... but didn't want to risk the tide and having to drag dad and the wheelchair up the stairs at the dock in low tide.  So we sat at Wharf 4 and watched the boats in the harbour.  I said to L that I thought dad could sit there all day watching them.

We just did a reverse harbour cruise then... back to Double Bay and then Rose Bay, and out for yummy Portuguese chicken for lunch.  All is well in the dad camp for now!