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Sydney. Wow.
 
This place truly is quite amazing. First: the weather. It's midwinter in the southern hemisphere, but today the city is very sunny, reasonably warm (12 C) and all the leaves are still on the gum trees.
 
Yesterday I went to the aquarium. It's a truly world-class affair, and I've seen things I've never seen before. Pacific Stingrays, for example, are absolutly fecking HUGE. Somthing I never knew. Anyway, I was massivle blown away by the whole affair. Amazing.  The Opera house, too, is so very, very cool in personj. The architecture is superb (the white of the outside id overed in white and beige self-cleaning tiles. From Sweeden), and the auditory attewntion to detail that has gone into the main auditorium is insane.
 
Today I want to a wildlife park that was far too touristy for it's own goo,d but the upshot of that is that I fed Kangaroos, stroked Koalas and witnessed the immensity that is a Saltwater Crocodile. Those bastards and massive. Bondi beach, hoever, could be any other beach you've been to, only with marginally better sand. The cath to swimming there is evdient from the strandline - its littered with "bluebottles" (portugese man-of-war), which are so tiny it's wonder so many people get stung by them.
 
Anyway, I'm just back from a lovely (and cheap)  meal in Chinatown, which - like everything in Australia - is a much friendlier affair that thier overseas equvilent.
 
Anyway, it's my last full day in Sydney tomorrow before I move on the Uluru on Thursday.
 
It just occured to me that by sending this message back to the UK,  I'm effectivly sending it BACK IN TIME!!!  Hope none of you come over and shoot me before I have time to pet the wallabys...