back to sydney

Last sunday I went back to Sydney after Uluru. Spent some more time in the city- also had my last meeting and finished up with my 2nd year medical student group.

This time the weather was great. The sky was blue, and it was warm- 75 F. When I was there I went to the Museum of Sydney- which was ok. But a great museum was the Hyde Park Barracks. This was built my Macquarie- he was the 8th gov (i think) in 1810. He decided Sydney should be a regular colony and not just penal colony. He built a large number of building during his years and is considered the father of the sydney/country. Just so you know, Sydney is named after an English lord in 1787 that arranged for the first fleet, commanded by Adm Phillips in 1787-88.

This museum tells the story of the penal colony- how the prisoners were treated, worked, lived. I also saw Cadman's cottage- one of the fist building in Sydney- right on Circular Quay (pronounced key). It was where the harbor master lived and is named for one of them John Cadman.

Interestingly, Circular Quay used to be known as Sydney Cove, and the shoreline has changed over the years- they have markers for that. The cottage above used to be right next to shore- not its about 200 meters back. Lastly, went to royal bontanic gardern- a ton of sulphur crested cockatoos were about, toured other museums, parts of Sydney, went on a ferry ride to the zoo (red male kangaroos are huge!) and ended up watching my last Sunrise in Australia on the 15th before heading to the airport.

One last point: sit on the left side of the airplane so you have a chance to see Aussie from the air as you depart.

I just want to say- one the elective was great- wrote some interesting tox stuff, will get to publish, and worked in med ed. Two Australia rocks and I need to go back!

I hope anyone who reads this had a good time following me around. I took several hundreds to thousand pictures- if you want to see more email me and I will give you a link to where I store them.