Vivid Sydney, now in it's eleventh year, is a fascinating and fabulous light show fittingly touted as Australia's most loved and awarded festival. Running from mid-May to mid-June, it's a four week full on extravaganza of amazing light installations, visual art and mesmerising laser projections. What better way to mark our last wintery 2019 weekend in the City of Sails than to enjoy an evening Vivid Harbour Cruise with our local mate Margie?

Arriving at Kings Wharf, we clambered onboard the restored historic ferry MV Royale and staked our places topside on the port bow. The clear night sky and the calm conditions made it an ideal, if somewhat chilly, evening for a 90 minute tour of wonderful Sydney harbour, a place that we have certainly come to love during our time here. Luckily we had all dressed for the conditions - jeans, jackets, scarves and boots, with gloves and beanies in reserve ... just in case! We departed the dock just after 1830, chugging out past the changing kaleidoscope of underwater imagery projected onto the roof of the National Maritime Museum and around the point at Barangaroo. The laughing face of Luna Park was to our left as we glided under the "Coathanger" and across to Farm Cove where we hovered to take in the splendour of the stunningly decorated sails of the Opera House. This year's Lighting of the Sails display, entitled "Austral Flora Ballet" beautifully showcased the work of Chinese-American artist Andrew Thomas Huang. What an amazing amalgamation of colourful and vibrant floral images - it's no wonder this display has been most photographed aspect of Vivid 2019.

Replete with the vibrancy of the sails, we then took a slow turn around the cove, coming face to face with the spectacle of the Sydney Harbour Bridge's "City Sparkle", a masterpiece of flashing, flickering colourful light beams. The pulsing lasers illuminated the silhouette of the iconic steel spans, the beams reaching up as if to touch the waxing half moon as it sat high above the bridge's curves. We motored past Milsons Point, where the rotating ferris wheel and the vibrant glow of Sydney's much loved amusement park added to the Vivid vibe, before once again entering Darling Harbour, just in time for their Saturday night fireworks display. What a bright and brilliant night - highly recommended if you happen to be in Sydney in late autumn/early winter!

All vibrantly vivid and well in the city.