5:47 Local time.

Wandered aimlessly around the district known as "The Rocks". Very nice, lots of shops nearly all of which sell the most tacky and hackneyed souvenirs imaginable. Naturally, I bought a few of those items. Circular Quay, just beside it, is much more upmarket, but a tad soulless. However, this was lightened by some Aboriginal buskers playing on thier dijeridus.

This is my last day in Sydney, and I quite frankly love it. As generic a city as it may appear to be at first, there's a real heart here just below the surface. The people here are ceaselessly friendly and very obliging hosts, and for all thier idiosyncraies, I wouldn't have them change one bit.

Off to the Outback tomorrow, for a day's stopover at Uluru. Weather will be much hotter (huzzah), but it is the middle of God's great nowhere.

Time to Log off now, before the fog-hornesqe droning of the lothesome Alabamians behind be drive me to some sort of creativity with my newly purchased boomerang...