By the bay

We had lunch today at the Watsons Bay Hotel hosting three cousins of Lo and Ma visiting from Italy. Although Lo and Ma are even older than we are the three cousins were all aged in their late teens but they politely put up with we six old farts. The WBH serves seafood...naturally...and is often mistakenly thought to be part of the Doyles restaurants conglomerate with it's various outlets either side of the hotel.

Despite the heavy seafood emphasis the three cousins between them ordered a steak and two fishburgers. Wow, I thought Italians would be gourmands. We old farts stuck to the straight seafood; salmon, barramundi and 'famous' fish and chips. The 'famous' fish looked more than just battered, it looked ill. Apparently it tasted OK. I was happy with my grilled barramundi.

We had a lovely view from our terrace out on the bay with the towers of the Central Business District of Sydney in the distance. The weather was glorious with a temperature of about 28c. Rivercats brought full loads of passengers to the bay from the CBD at regular intervals and were equally loaded for the return journey.

I took the following photo around 2.30pm as we were leaving the hotel following lunch. You can see people queued and boarding a Rivercat berthed at the far side of the jetty. The ferry trip to the CBD takes less than 20 minutes. We did not use the Rivercat today having travelled by cars instead.

The city in the distance and queues for the Rivercat on the jetty