Our Australian Adventure

Day Twenty One

After traipsing around Sydney yesterday our feet and legs are getting tired but… march around Sydney we must, it’s the only day we have. We did take as much public transit as possible, off to the Queen Victoria Building, The Strand Arcade, and more.

**The Great Australian Clock:** A massive, suspended mechanical clock showcasing animated historic scenes from both British and Australian history.

Remember the story I told about the man sitting next to me on our flight to Australia, he cuts down termite hollowed out trees to make into didgeridoo’s. We went into a shop at the Queen of Victoria building and talking to the owner, he knows the man who sat next to me on the airplane and his son. I asked permission to take a couple of photos of the didgeridoo’s. The man on airplane, harvest trees, hollows out the trunks some more and finishes them with epoxy. Any artwork is done after he sells them wholesale. He’s the only man that leaves tree bark at the bottom, any didgeridoo that sold like that is one he harvested.

The Strand an indoor shopping arcade, my cousin’s grandfather had a chocolate shop inside there over 100 years ago. It is the only original Victorian arcade remaining in Sydney.

We walked through Hyde Park and on to the Australian Museum

The diversity of the aboriginal, tribes and clans

Off to the Customs House via a subway ride. Australia didn’t gain full independence until 1986 and the train and subway system reminds me of London England, even during WW II the threat of invasion was real.