Heritage Harbour Cruise

Climb aboard the heritage motor launch Harman (c.1943) for a unique 1 hour cruise on Sydney Harbour.

Passengers can enjoy one of two specially designed cruises – the Mystery Bays Highlights Tour (morning) and the Westside Stories Highlights Tour (afternoon).

The Mystery Bays Highlights Tour (daily 10am and 11.30am) focuses on the area between Fort Denison and Balls Head – typically inaccessible by ferries and larger commercial vessels.

You’ll see the northern harbour’s once extensive shipbuilding and engineering enterprises; former sites of heavy industry that are now public parks and reserves; Aboriginal settlements; colonial defense installations; places of recreation and leisure, and places that have seen major Australian artistic achievement.

The Westside Stories Highlights Tour (daily 1pm and 2.30pm) shows the transformation of Sydney Harbour from a major working port into one of leisure.

See the remaining vestiges of the working waterfront as you’re taken deep into the bays and coves, west of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Highlights include Rozelle Bay where many of the city’s historic vessels are being restored; see where Palmolive and Protex soap was made; be visually transported to ‘Scandinavia’ by multi-coloured harbour front workshops, and unlock what the name Ultimo means?

Presented by the Australian National Maritime Museum in partnership with the Sydney Heritage Fleet.