Sydney Zoo

We took a ferry over to the Sydney Zoo the other day. From the water, you could see the building where we are staying:


It is the shorter white one in the middle, just below the word "staying"

It was a nice zoo, with some interesting animals. This is a cassowary:

Brother Chas always says that big birds remind him our dinosaurs. I agree with that completely. When you look at these birds, with their big feet, you could imagine them 2x to 5x the size, chasing down their prey, attacking with their feet and bills. Especially if they had teeth!

The had a good Tasmanian Devil display as well:

It is very sad that these little guys (about 20 lbs or so) as all getting wiped out by a virus based cancer.


This is a Kookaburra. It is not sitting in an old gum tree. Nor was it laughing.