Hardly a slimy pit, just muck and mire

The time difference between these two shots was about 5 hours: the bottom image taken on the ferry to Manly at 10am; the top shot, the return trip to Circular Quay about 3pm. My, how the muck'n'mire of our mighty city sometimes just hovers to remind us of that which we do.

Ship pulls away from the shore

And so endeth my bushwalk around Little Sirius Cove in the harbourside suburb of Mosman. I bought a chocolate paddle pop - one of my many addictions - and waited for the small zoo ferry (known as the 'Lady' class) to arrive from Circular Quay for another load of passengers. Our green and gold lady for today is the 'Lady Northcott'.

We chugged away from the Athol Street ferry wharf at the 'bottom' of the zoo, and as we slooped through the harbour, we were rapidly overtaken by the much larger ferry on the Manly run, 'Freshwater'.

My closing image is the obverse/yang of my opening image: I open with a view from the zoo to the city; I close with a view from the ferry to the bush that softens Taronga Zoological Gardens, with just the scar of the chairlift slicing through the bush.