nes -- I have fond memories of the land down under and will share them with you in the next few weeks as I finish posting to this blog. I hope everyone reading this has enjoyed it as much as I have loved writing it -- when you write for a living -- writing for pure pleasure is a real treat!One of the things I learned in my travels around Australia is that they like BIG things -- fish, trees, buildings -- everything is really big here. And, while there are some really small things -- big is the word for a lot of the aquatic life that you'll find around the country. I spent an evening with David, his daughter A
riane, her boyfriend Tim and David's son, Julian in the Sydney Aquarium. We went at night to avoid the crowds and although some of the "residents" were asleep -- we got to see some amazing things, including a couple of pretty playful platypi (is that the plural of platypus?) Here's the link to Wikipedia for more infohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus.
They are nocturnal and monotremes -- they lay eggs instead of birthing live animals. They are also really a lot smaller than you think. In a land where everything is BIG -- small is adorable! Here's a link to a great picture of the platypus -- he was too fast for me and all I have is a great big blur streaking across the water: http://encarta.msn.com/media_461534650/Platypus.html
There was a lot to see at the Aquarium from white eels to huge saltwater crocs and even an exhibit showing embryos developing in eggs. We tooks lots of pictures, though they're not perfect because we forgot David's camera and had to shoot most of this with the camera in my phone but hopefully you'll still enjoy seeing some of what I saw ... here's a few of the more unusual creatures we saw ... fom top to bottom: lion fish, banner fish, seahorse, blue starfish and fish of the Great Barrier Reef ...
