Correction to yesterday's blog. Not a quail, most likely a created pidgin or a crested bronze wing.

At restaurant last evening we sat next to a radio tech. Makes about$80-$100, paid by the hour, $48, and of course knowledgeable about the system. Excellent system that appears to work well. Cost I'd about %1.5% of salary, progressive rate. Note this I'd one tenth of our cost. Not litigious, egalitarian but NOT socialist. Legal system of loser pays costs keeps court use low. Seem not to sure for medical.

Opera house. Built with a protected cost of $7 million, cost over $100 million, and now, due to problems of the past needs another upgrade.$1 billion this time. Not just us with cost overruns.

The zoo here is a big deal. Take a ferry there. Zoo is perched on a hill, take a gondola up. Highlight was the bird show. Flocks and individual cockatoos, Gullah, black, sulfur crested, large African vulture, really large.

Some good aviary collections. Excellent wombat and nocturnal ones like encina. Big disappointment was the platypus, hiding out today.

Spot the wombat and a Tasmanian devil!

When we asked a zoo employee about where to find the cockatoos she said out was good someone was interested in them, not much interest among the locals.

Dinner at fish face. Very highly rated small place. Located in darlinghurst, former red light district and now the happening gay culture center, at least near by Oxford street is, is this small Villigee feel place with the promised atmosphere and food. Sydney rock oysters and sashimi for me, perfectly cooked mullet for QB.