So this Saturday is election time for Australia. The incumbent Prime Minister John Howard is fighting for another term in office (He has been PM for 11 years now). However, the Australian Labor Party, and its leader Kevin Rudd is looking like they are set for victory right now.
Being an outsider, it is interesting being here right now. It seems that the whole media world in Australia seems to be against John Howard.
On our way down from the Blue Mountains we visited Featherdale Wildlife Park. Both my lovely wife and I were just expecting a regular zoo, and was very much looking forward to it. What we actually got to experience was so much better.
We got up very early to be picked up by Australia Pacific Touring to be taken into the famous Blue Mountains west of Sydney. We had been looking forward to this trip since we got here, being the nature lovers that we are.
Unfortunately, the weather was not promising as we looked outside our window first thing. However, we stayed optimistic and hoped for the best. APT picked us up and drove us around downtown Sydney for an hour whilst they picked up other guests, before we transferred to another coach and set off for the blue mountains.
After the Opera House we sat down for lunch just down the street, overlooking the harbor and the bridge. We then decided to look around the amazing botanical gardens. This is a huge public park that wraps fully around from the Opera House in the east to a dock area to the west. They are beautiful. There are many species of birds to be seen wandering and flying around, Parakeets, Cockatoos, Ducks, some lovely rainbow birds. The fauna is glorious aswell.
