Birds, frogs, birds, bats and more birds!

So, here are the things I had not realised about Sydeney:

1. It's really very beautiful place. I had imagined it to be rather like any big city - full of grey buildings - apart from the opera house. But actually, it's really pretty with lots of parks and pretty buildings
2. there is wildlike EVERYWHERE! possums, rats (cute ones), lizards, frogs and crickets are just a few that are in the garden! There are amazing birds everywhre, not just rainbow parakeets but Mynah birds, Cockatoos, Ibises... and huge fruit bats in the botanical gardens!
3. It smells really nice, from all the tropical flowers and plants everywhere

I had a walk around today with isabel, who I'm staying with. She is my mum's cousin and has lived here for over 20 years. I'm living in comparitive luxury with my own bedroom and my own bathroom, which is lovely.

Here is a link for non-facebook people to the Sydney pictures I have so far:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=558445&id=799440229&l=56b744e1ba

 

I've also updated the photos for Japan with the last few including a view of Mount Fuji:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=525877&id=799440229&l=8840d15569

 

But here are a couple of Sydney anyway:

 

The beach a few minutes from where I am staying



Sydney Opera House



Ibis birds



a Fruit Bat!