There were ambitions to run in Hyde Park and through the Royal Botanic Gardens this morning. But then there was rain. A lot of rain, rain for hours and hours. Plans shifted to spend a day indoors and there are plenty of museums in Sydney to make this work.
We started at the Australian Museum, which is just a few blocks from our apartment and like most of the other museums in Sydney, is free. With little downside, we spent a half hour there on our first day and it was clear there was much more to explore. Today, three of us breezed through the rest of the museum, which is filled with aboriginal history, animals, and birds of Australia. Two of us chose to read every single word of the exhibits. If it weren’t still rainy outside this would have been a real problem. One member of the three even tried to obfuscate the hidden secrets on the other floors of the museum by saying there are” only arachnids” on the next floor. Alas, this did not deter them even a little.
Chinatown had been calling since we arrived, and we finally made the trek after many more museum hours than necessary. By then the rain had cleared, and Chinatown is close to Darling Harbor, which also has the Maritime Museum. A day with submarines is always a day to remember.
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| Don’t be deceived by this sunrise, the rain started minutes later |
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| Yellow crested cockatoo, properly presented rather than stuffed in a paper bag and put in the freezer |
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| HMB Endeavor from 1768 when Capt. Cook sailed the ocean round |
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| Forgotten Songs above Angel Place, representing the birds that used to sing in the city |
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| Important tips on a submarine: give CPR for as long as it takes and DO SOMETHING YOURSELF! |
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| The sky and the skyline from Darling Harbor, it’s like it never rained |
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