Saturday ended up being a pretty mild day. The weather has been so terrible here it's ridiculous. Torrential downpours almost every day. Saturday looked to be promising, but turned out to be a bust. I cooked myself enough stirfry for the week though (red and green peppers, corn, steak, and mushrooms, all in a hot sweet chili sauce, over noodles/rice/in a tortilla with cheese). It isn't quite as delicious when all of the ingredients ended up costing me $55US…and only $3 of that was for a sauce. Everything else will need to be purchased again if I want more stirfry. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that it was $20/kg for a basic eye of the round steak. It is what it is though and that's part of living in Sydney.
Anyway, Sunday CAPA had organized a trip to La Perouse. I didn't really know what La Perouse was, but felt that I needed to get out of the city for a bit, so I boarded the bus. Apparently La Perouse is very far away! An hour bus ride later and we found ourselves at the site where the first white settlers landed in Australia. While there wasn't very much to do there (you could hardly even get lunch), it was quite stunning.
We did manage to listen to an Aboriginal talk about the items they used to use for hunting/killing other people. I learned this on my last trip, but I will reiterate, that the boomerang was never meant to be thrown and automatically returned. It is meant to be thrown at something and kill the target. After the man spoke, we headed down to the coast line and walked along the rocks for a bit. The coast at this point is made of sandstone and since sandstone is not a consistent density, the water had worn away the sandstone inconsistently to make some very interesting shapes in the coast. There are pictures of this up on Picasa for anyone who would like to see!
After this, we started to watch a reptile show. It was pretty standard, but he then pulled out one of the deadliest snakes in the world. Now Australian's, being typical Australian's, let their children's feet continue to dangle in the "pen" that this snake was roaming freely in. I decided I had seen enough at this point and boarded the bus back to the city.
The weather, unsurprisingly, decided to turn quite horrible after this and we all just decided to head back to the apartment. Oh Sydney. It looks like it should be 20C (70F) every day this week and sunny! Please hold out until the weekend!!
As a complete side note, I passed the 1,000 picture mark this weekend! Obviously I've spared you all the misery of looking through every photo, but I believe there are at least 500 of them on Picasa. At least you get the good ones!
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