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Category Archives: Sydney
Viticulture III
Picked up another of these with the label I like so much.
Ubiquitous
And what did I find inside the Gateway shopping center? Yet another Din Tai Fung!
Gateway
I assumed this shopping center at Circular Quay was named after the Aboriginal mutant.
Harbours
By Circular Quay and the Customs House there is a quill-shaped weathervane over a map of the early Australian settlements.
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Customs
Sydney’s old Customs House, ready for Christmas.
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Excellent
Strange things are afoot at the Circular Quay. (Note: although “kwey” is an accepted pronunciation, the preferred pronunciation is “key”. Just in case my dad wants to make a big deal about this from beyond the grave.)
Variegated
I forget, is this how you frame giraffes?Or is this preferable?I enjoyed this Imagineer-worthy theming in Southeastern Asia area of the zoo.Goddamn langur monkeys. Just as obnoxiously loud as they were at the San Diego Zoo!A meerkat.The apes were all … Continue reading
Catnip
Few things in the world will draw my attention like a locked passageway overgrown with plants.
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Little
A pygmy hippo! A 小河马 (xiǎo hémǎ or “little river horse”)!
Billed
And the worst wildlife photography you’ve ever seen continues! This blur is a platypus. Just take my word for it.
Tornado
Warner Bros. cartoons have misinformed me yet again. Looks like the tasmanian devil was yet another indigenous Australian species to be adversely affected by the invasive dingos, displaced (like the now-extinct tasmanian tiger) off shore to the island of Tasmania.
Aviary
This aviary was colorful and beautiful and calm. (The exact opposite of being penned in with bats.)Great, parrot. Don’t get cocky.These Red Junglefowl are the ancestors of all modern domestic chickens.I never realized cassowary were quite so beautiful.I like this … Continue reading
Clump
Wait a sec. 蓝山丛林游览 (lán shān cónglín yóulǎn) means “Blue Mountain Jungle Tour”. The word for “jungle” 丛林 (cónglín) literally means “clump forest”!
Fittest
Having established that Australia already looks a lot like San Diego, I appreciated this robotic T-Rex roaring with Sydney visible in the background.
Unsavoury
What better way to celebrate my time in Australia than having the zoo ruin koala bears for me? My fault for visiting in spring, I suppose, but the mature male seemed disconcertingly, um, rapey.Not anthropomorphize but all the other koalas … Continue reading