We seem to have been looking at lots of animals recently. We had a lovely, if cold and windy, day at the zoo several weeks ago. We had cheap tickets because Optus had a family day. The food provided was tolerable, we skipped the entertainment, and enjoyed ourselves wandering around. Every time we go to the zoo we try to catch the bird show that shows off some trained birds from galah to a wedge-tailed eagle. It was the first time that Nathan had seen the show and he really enjoyed it.

Then, a couple of weeks ago I took the kids to the Aquarium. I bought a ticket that gives me (and accompanying children under the age of 4 years old) an unlimited number of entries to four places; the Aquarium, Wildlife World, Sydney Tower and the Manly Aquarium. The beauty of such tickets is that you don’t feel that you HAVE to stay as long as possible so that you get value for your money, you can just drop in for as long or short a time as you might wish.

Nathan was pretty impressed with the dugongs in particular, but also loved the sea dragons (mostly, I suspect, because he knows that Mummy loves sea horses and dragons). We have now been to the aquarium many, many times but Nathan still really enjoys it. Wildlife world is also interesting, though the butterfly enclosure (which is pretty good) is closed at the moment.

Sydney Tower is also an interesting place for Nathan. He stops still and just looks down for ages, before starting to play with binoculars (winding them uo and down) and brings me things from the souvenir shop. The boy can be a menace at times.

Oh, and I can’t forget that we saw whales from Kurnell on my Birthday in early July.

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