J: Got up, had breakfast, went to work. Left work, met up with Kathleen then headed out to have an Egyptian meal with friends in Newtown. <\/p>\n
K: Got up and had breakfast with Joe, then we headed opposite directions along Liverpool Street. He went to work and I went to the Australian Museum. On the way, stopped to watch some rainbow lorikeets and take some photos in Hyde Park. Met up with my friend at the museum and got a tour of the galleries that are available. The lights aren’t on and some of the exhibit space is being used as office or storage space due to the building work, but it was all interesting. It was also just good to see the work that a museum does, rather than just the exhibits.<\/p>\n
I then headed down to the Botanical Gardens. I had planned to spend most of the day sitting and resting my sore feet, but I walked all over the gardens, as well as out to Mrs Macquarie’s Point and chair. Got some photos, but most of are birds that I wanted to ID. <\/p>\n
Then out to Newton for dinner. We also saw bats flitting about and while driving back to the hotel stopped to listen to them in the trees. Now to decide what to do tomorrow . . . <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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