Only one week left.  The last two days were a ton of fun.  Yesterday, I went on a wildlife tour of the Southern Highlands.  We saw lots of cool animals, including platypus, koalas, wombats, kangaroos, emus, wallabies, and we heard a ton of lyrebirds.  We also saw some bush-tailed possums after the sun had set.  We had dinner at the oldest continuously licensed pub in Australia, which was opened in 1836.

Today, it was more wildlife, but at the Taronga Zoo.  The zoo is on an island right outside of Circular Quay, so you need to get on a ferry to get there.  The zoo itself is probably about the same size as San Diego Zoo, and has a ton of animals that you don't see in American zoos.  There was a platypus, Tasmanian devils, snow leopards, leopard seals, a fishing cat (kind of like an ocelot), tons of Australian wildlife including the most poisonous snake in the world which looks a lot like a common garden snake from America, as well as usual zoo animals.  The zoo took about six or seven hours to see pretty much everything, and now I'm just lounging around for a little while.

Tomorrow I'm planning on going to Bondi Beach and get some sun if it's warm enough as well as hit the shops in the area.

KK

Platypus...kinda looks more like a log though.

Koala

Wombat

Leopard seal

Snow leopard

not very long, but if you listen closely, you can hear lyrebirds.