Hamster Dancin' Around the World

I agree!!!! (sez sozlet)

Penny's in OZ??????



Is she visiting me????

Not only in Oz, but in beautiful downtown Abbotsford! And today is less-than beautiful downtown Burwood - she came to work with me!

Photos taken - but I forgot to bring the cable to transfer with me

I was wondering who she goes to next?

And someone is v-e-r-y unkind about Possum!

Talk about you Sydney fat cats.

At the risk of seeming pushy I suspect the best visit order is

Dlowan
Msolga
dadpad

Any others... Hinge? Vikkor? Dutchy?

Msolga is closer to Sinney.

So?

Well, Possum is a tad immense, but ever so adorable...

Does this indicate you have no post in OZ and Penny has to ride on a kangaroo [in a that would be, I suppose] all the way?

You think thats a joke. ha ha very funny, We shall see my fine German friend.

Watch this space for a rootin tootin kangaroo ridin wild west hamster. yeee haaaaa!

Less stress for the poor goddamned hamster!!!!

No heart, you people.



The other reason is Penny would end up being delivered to my local post office, as she would not fit through the letter box hole.


This PO does not open on weekends.....so, often, parcels end up sitting there for a week or more, as I cannot get to it in opening time.


However, around easter, I am having a few days off, so Penny would likely not languish in a dark box.

So what's Penny actually doing now - and where?

Come on Penny. Stop lollygagging around in sin city.

I hope you havnt been hanging around The Cross.

Is Penny working somwhere?

Or just waiting eagerly for new adventures ?

Penny is resting quietly in Kiama, a beach town just south of Sydney.

Kiama is famous for it's Blowhole, which Penny inspected yesterday.

It's the Luddite margo who is slowing things down.

Most pix are on home computer, and some in camera. Need to get all together before Penny can post her story.

Then she's on the way to dadpad - in high country Victoria!

Great!

And let me repeat -- this is the laid-back, easy-going, no-rush tour. Take your time!

So...to me after DP? Or is Msolga wanting her?


(I only have a shithouse phone camera...)


Wouldn't it be nice if we had some rain before she comes? Sigh.... Everything still alive looks sad and tired.


It's Womadelaide and then the Festival of Arts, and it's always steeeenking hot during them, so I guess not....

Here I am again!

Margo's finally got her act together(her words) so I can tell more of my travels.

Sydney is a harbour city (in Australia, I have to spell harbour the correct, or English way!), so we went to have a look.

The Botanical Gardens are on the Harbour, next to the Opera House, in the city.

It was a bit of a grey day, so margo has let me use one of her other photos, so you can see what it looks like:
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On one side there is Garden Island, the naval base:
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margo is having some problems uploading photos. I'll be back later...

While I was interested in the naval base, I was more interested in this building next to it:


Russell Crowe lives here when he's in Sydney. I have a better photo, but, for some reason, imageshack won't let me load it.

Here I am trying to use one of these telescope things:
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Here I am just looking across the Harbour:



I liked this sign:



Further around we came across a big flock of these birds, with pretty scary beaks. They're sulphur-crested cockatoos, and they make a funny shrieking, screeching noise.

Those birds were a bit frightening - but people were feeding them, although they were wild, (and the sign says not to feed them) and they were standing on their heads and eating out of their hands. But they were about 3-4 times my size and coould carry me off easily. Pretty though, from a distance.

The Gardens are often used as a backdrop for weddings, especially Japanese weddings. We saw and bride and groom, running as it was about to start raining.

After looking around the gardens and taking a heap more photos, we finished the circuit, and went up to the Art Gallery of New South Wales (that's the state in Australia that Sydney is capital of).


We saw a retrospective exhibition of the work of one of margo's favourite artists, Sidney Nolan (although he didn't live in Sydney). No photos here - they weren't allowed. One of the paintings, Pretty Polly Mine, had a bird like the cockatoos, flying upside down outside an outback mine. Bit weird if you ask me....

Then a quick trip past the front of the Opera House (in the car)


and around under the Harbour Bridge, and through the city. Even on a gloomy Sunday afternoon there were a lot of people around.