Friday was spent looking around Carins, and flying down to Sydney. Saturday was spent walking around Sydney. Kevin and I have been very touristy. Here are a few highlights.
The Golden Century in Sydney is still my favorite Chinese restaurant in the world, both for quality and value for money.
Sydney Aquarium is now even more awesome than last time I went. I could spend all day in there. Of course it helps that I like fish, but unless you have a phobia you really should experience their Shark Tunnel. I should note that the Nurse Sharks they have in the tank are relatively wussy as sharks go, and are unlikely to try to eat you should you encounter one in the wild, but boy do they look bad.
We spent a lot of time around Sydney taking photographs. In particular Kevin took a lot of pictures of the monorail when we rode it. No one rushed up to us to try to stop us doing it and take our cameras away. There was no suggestion that we were somehow helping international terrorism by our shutterbug activities. It was like living in a free country again. Such a welcome change from the UK and USA.
Talking of photos, Kevin has left me with a large pile of them. Also some video. I will process them as and when I can. But I will also have a lot of work to catch up on when I get home.
Moose and I love aquariums. I swear he is part fish. Whenever we go touristing, we go to the Local Aquarium! I love the ones that are more local than “These are all the International Favorite Fish that we could import”. YMMV. But I go to aquariums to learn about fish. I already know about clown fish, TYVM.
And Yes, we went to Sydney’s Aquarium when we went to that last Worldcon there. Moose was a happy camper.
We also loved the Sydney Aquarium. The shark tunnel was by far the highlight, but there was plenty of other cool stuff, too.