With memories of Dick Cheney's Excellent Sydney Adventure still fresh in our minds, and with the clock counting down to the Avagoodweegend Brought To You By APEC, comes today's arrival in Sydney of the USS Kitty Hawk.

Together with the exclusion zone in several harbourside suburbs and the resultant towing away of cars belonging to miscreant owners who dare to park them outside their houses.

smh.com.au has more, while the Roads and Traffic Authority advises big-ship-gawkers to the CBD to "leave the car home, take public transport, and walk".

Unless, of course, you live in one of the squillions of streets listed.