Saturday, January 3, 2009

Sydney - 1 -5 December 2008


After Lizard Island, we moved on to Sydney.  We had a belated Thanksgiving dinner (traditional steak, yum!), did some shopping for our impending dive trip, and spent a morning at the zoo.

It's funny - when you sign up for the guided zoo tour they expect you to have kids with you.  The poor women (both elderly volunteers) did a double take when they realized it was just Jen and me.  They rallied quickly, though, and did a nice job taking us through the zoo.

We saw a koala:


We also saw an echidna getting into some food that wasn't meant for him.  Before this picture he was actually hanging onto the bowl upside down, but I wasn't fast enough with the camera to get that:


Then there were the Quokkas.  We had never heard of these rat-looking things before, but there were two of them running around in the pen for zoo school.  The funny part was hearing one of our guides refer to them as "Naughty Quokkas" in an Australian accent.  Try saying it - I'll wait:

Last, but not least, here's some video of a bat coming over to say hello.  Too bad there weren't bats (plural):

2 comments:

Ray said...

You need to pronounce it "ba tssss".

Brooke said...

And speaking of, Daniel says thank you very much for the book. :)