30th Jan- Museum

A very hot day, even by Sydney standards, reaching 30 degrees. I'd spent a bit of time in the morning sorting myself out with an Australian sim card and bank account. At the Opera House I'd asked about tours but the major rooms were closed for rehersals so I decided to delay. By this time it was intensely hot and I'd done too much walking so in a stoke of inspiration I decided the Australia museum with it's aircon was the place to go!
This had some good natural history- skeletons, dinosaurs, insects and displays about the strange Australian beasties- deadly cone shells, the 4 dangerous shark species, the snakes and spiders, jelly fish and their crazy marsupials- most fascinating were models of the extinct giant marsupials Diprotodons and marsupial lions. (Presumably around at a similar time to the Wooly Mammoth and Sabre toothed tiger) There was also an Aboriginal display but I didn't have much time to look at this before closing.
In the evening the hostel had organised a night out. I went for the free wine- it would have been rude not to!