After a relatively uneventful motor-sail last night,  we entered Port Jackson at around 0630 this morning. There aren't too many iconic cities in the world, but sailing Paw Paw into one of them, two years into our circumnavigation, was beyond words and brought home the magnitude of our achievement. HELLO Sydney!

Too tired to try and shoehorn into one of the other so called "anchorages"  en route through the port, we opted for Farm Cove overlooking the Royal Botanical Gardens, the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Unfortunately, it is an extremely uncomfortable anchorage due to the churn created by all the ferries,  but it is,  nonetheless,  very scenic and centrally located, so, we plan on staying for tonight, at least.

Once we were settled and had a nap, we had a rather precarious dinghy ride to the closet pier. Then, having successfully negotiated our disembarkation without falling in the water,  it was time to celebrate our arrival in Sydney and the Opera Bar was the perfect venue. A walk around Circular Quay and the Royal Botanical Gardens afterwards helped stretch our legs and clear the cobwebs.

On our return to Paw Paw, we had hoped to reconnect with Raya (Ros and Rick), whom we haven't seen since Fiji, as we thought we had seen them from a distant arriving in the anchorage,  but they were nowhere to be found this evening. Hopefully we can catch up with them once we've completed our explorations tomorrow in the hunt for a more suitable anchorage or, even better, maybe they've found one and we can just head their way!

We have also been invited over to Allure for after-dinner coffee tonight,  but, unfortunately,  we're both fading fast,  so we'll have to take a rain-check.