10/10/2026
Part four of my trip to Australia: Layover in Sydney!
The flight from Vancouver to Sydney was pretty uneventful. I slept a lot but it wasnβt a great sleep. We landed at 6am in Sydney and luckily they had some day-stay rooms for us. While the rest of the group headed out to see Circular Quay but I took the morning to shower and rest a bit, and I eventually met up with the group at the Sydney Opera House. We had a short tour around the Opera House. Part of the group headed back to the hotel because they hit their wall, but since I rested before, a few others and I kept going and we walked along the botanical garden for a bit.
The highlight of the layover in Sydney? Cockatoos EVERYWHERE. Theyβre like the seagulls here and were hanging out with pigeons. Also, the JOY I felt when I saw the bin chicken in its natural habitat (a bin) was insane. I actually shouted βomg, bin chicken in its natural habitat!β
We flew out of Sydney around 9pm, arrived in Darwin at around midnight, and honestly? By that point I had hit 45 hours of consecutive travel time and stopped taking photos. Right now weβre in a bus heading out to a conservation area.