Aaah, a Koala Bear. They are actually quite vicious and more people die every year as a result of Koala attacks than are eaten by duck billed platypuses! I took my life in my hands to bring you this picture.On one of my first outings I saw what might be a red back spider (just one of the many interesting ways that Australia has to kill you; Australia is renowned for it's poisonous animals - just look at Steve Irwin - he got killed by a fish!).
Aaah, a Koala Bear. They are actually quite vicious and more people die every year as a result of Koala attacks than are eaten by duck billed platypuses! I took my life in my hands to bring you this picture.
A picture of some trees. Unfortunately my cameramanship needs a little work as I missed most of the tree and got that unsightly carbuncle and some ropey old bridge in the picture. I didn't climb the trees because they were too big (and I was afraid of koala attacks) but I did go and climb up the likkle bridge in the background.
Australians call these fruit bats, but the the rest of the world knows them as Vampire Bats - another of Australia's interesting ways to kill you.
This picture was taken in the Botanical gardens in the middle of Sydney. At dusk the bats all fly out over the harbour to the suburbs where they form into gangs and burgle green-grocers shops.
Sidney Harbour Bridge at dusk.
If you fall off the bridge you will die. Like I said, there's danger everywhere you look in this forsaken country.
Sidney nightscape, with the opera house in the foreground.
A Rainbow Lorikeet in central Sydney. Sydney has lots of exotic birds. I have seen Crested Cockatoos, Myna birds, Pelicans, Kookaburras and lots of other birds that I couldn't identify. The striking thing is that the birds are all really colourful or exotic, in stark contrast to the dull browns and blacks that seems to be the norm with most UK birds.
I just had a thought about this. I reckon it is because for the last 500 years, all the colourful birds in the UK have been shot or trapped for sport or turned into feathery hats, so that the only birds that remain in the wild in the ones which blend into the foliage or wouldn't look good in a hat, whereas in Oz, there has only been 200 years of pretty bird victimisation.
A picture of a large cargo ship passing beneath the Harbour bridge.
I did a harbour bride climb, which was great fun, walking up along the top of the arch to the summit of the bridge.
The guide was a bit irritating though and there was a family of bogans on the same tour, but it was still great fun
Aaah, Bondi Beach. I showed those surf dudes a thing or two about eating while we were there!
Don't swim in the sea though, sharks, jellyfish, sea snakes... ...the list goes on.