This really is one of the great natural places and even though the harbour is extensively surrounded by buildings and very busy with water traffic, it maintains its spacious magic. I caught a bus from Glebe all the way down to Circular Quai. The urban scenery has changed a bit from last time I was here, but it's still breathtaking, even with an enormous cruise ship - the curiously named Rhapsody of the Seas - moored alongside, dwarfing everything. I wandered around, had lunch at Wolfies, consumed an amazingly sickly ice cream covered in chocolate and nuts and generally rubbernecked.
Towards three o'clock the sun became unbearably hot on my bald head and I went in search of a hat. This is not to be recommended in the area of the harbour. Not, that is, unless you want to wear a hat emblazoned with Sydney or Australia or romping koala bears. Even worse, and I am entirely certain a lot of people do buy them, for an extra 6 dollars, you can buy a hat hung about this corks. I just wanted a hat to keep the sun off, but no luck. The only unlettered hat I could find dropped down around my ears and would have made me look anything but sophisticated. So, hatless, I crept home in the shadows.
Tomorrow I shall have to find a hat without a name, which may be an impossibility. I hope not for the sake of my scalp.
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