Sydney!

Thursday, I woke up at 5am to take the first train from Coorparoo to the Airport. After a 2 hour flight, I landed in Sydney. Same time zone, but they observe daylight savings time.... so it's an hour ahead of Brizzy.
After I found my hostel, I dropped my stuff off and took a walk around the neighborhood. I went to the Australian Museum, and checked out some cool exhibits.

 Butterflies

 

 Insects

 

 Wallaby

 Praying mantis

 Golden ant

 Giraffe and ostrich skeleton

 Elephant skeleton

 Hi-ho Silver, away!

 They had to make an exhibition, otherwise no one would survive.

 Very realistic Jurassic Park scene.

 After the museum, I came back to the hostel, which is above a bar (as is every hostel in Sydney), and had a few beers with Matt from the UK, and Martin from Austria.

Friday morning, I got up and walked from the hostel to Botanical Gardens.

Bottle tree

Opera House from the Botanical Gardens

Downtown Sydney

 

 

This tree had branches that turned into roots?

I walked from Mrs. Macqueries Point over to the Opera House, and then over to The Rocks. I went to the Museum of Contemporary Art and checked out the Annie Leibovitz exhibit. Then I walked toward the Victoria Bridge.