Went wandering around the botanical gardens after a trip to the opera house. The deformed ducks from yesterday are actually ibises. They are like big bloody bent billed pigeons. Leave anything unattended and edible on a table and there's a full scale riot while chips and burger buns are devoured:

Here's Sydney observatory. Captain Cook only came to Australia as he was already at Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus in 1789. The spire on the top is a time ball like the one at Greenwich in London. They drop it at 1pm every day and fire a canon (just like in Greenwich) 

Me and the telescope in Sydney: