Category: The Unknown

Today, we went to the zoo. This meant a ferry trip across the harbour:

During which Adam wisely avoided the sun and spent the time reading rec.games.mud on his phone:

The zoo was quite different from even four years ago, with many animal enclosures either changed or in the process of being changed. It’s turning from a great zoo into an even better zoo though, and virtually none of the old-type enclosures (ie. concrete boxes) remain. Here is a selection of the beasts we beheld:

Here’s a sleeping wombat:

And a kookaburra sitting in an old gum tree:

And some crazy dude astride an elephant:

As you may be able to tell, the weather today was incredible. As in incredibly hot 🙂

The sky was cloudless, and this was taken advantage of by various factions:

The first is a skywriter in the middle of writing “marry me”. Presumably, somewhere in Sydney a girl was about to be told to ‘look up’. The second is a helicopter (!) dragging a massive banner advertising headache medicine. This was no doubt targeting the numerous revellers already waiting on their boats in the harbour in position for tonights fireworks:

The zoo closed early due to the fireworks, and by the time we got back to Circular Quay the crowds had started to mass. This was a full ten hours before midnight – and in the blazing sun no less. We hopped on a bus and headed home. Both of us had gotten a touch of the sun, it was obvious we wouldn’t be heading back to the city for the fireworks tonight.

Here is some spectacular graffiti on the back of a bus seat. I’m no expert, but this looks like a rendition of Ptilonorhynchus Violaceus to me:

And here, should you be interested, is a number you can call to buy Chicken McNuggets in bulk:

Yep, that’s an ad from the classifieds in todays paper. My guess is only McDonalds lawyers called 🙂