Thursday, October 9, 2008

What is this? Hint: Egg-laying mammal



Here is some guessing work to be done. What is this? It's the type of mammal that lay egg. And when they first sent the specimen of this species to London, the biologist thought that it's a hoax. The biologist thought that they are making fun of them by stitching a beak of a duck to a mammal.

Yes, you guess right, it's the platypus, the Chinese call it 鸭嘴兽, the duck-beaked creature, which is self-explained. It's a native species in Australia. This is taken from the Sydney Aquarium, apparently, the flashlight is turned on accidentally and scared this animal to hell. It should be turned off.

Nighttime Harbour



Nothing to be fancy or guessing about, this is the popular Harbour Bridge, taken at a park near a jetty. In the background is the Sydney Opera House, and on the left just barely in the picture is Luna Park. There are two means of crossing from North Shore to Sydney CBD, one is the bridge, another is the tunnel, which flows underneath the sea somewhere between the bridge and opera house (can you feel that it's there?).