Canberra & Sydney (Road trip!!)

Last week Travis, Andrew and I piled into the car at 5am and drove ourselves to Canberra, the capitol city of this fine country. We were ostensibly there for the annual conference of the Australian Society for Fish Biology, where Travis and I both gave presentations on our work. But there was plenty of time for touring and idling as well. We toured the Parliament House, the War Memorial, and other fine institutions. After we had our fill, we jumped into the car again and headed over to Sydney for a couple extra days of nonsense. We retrieved a friend of Trav and Drew (Paris, a former doctoral student in the marine bio lab in Adelaide) and hauled the 17 hours back to Adelaide. We managed not to kill each other during the interminable ride, although I suspect Paris was close to homicide when the three of us boys sang along to the entire soundtrack of Little Shop of Horrors 15 hours into the trip. Good times.

Click the above picture for an album of Canberra and Sydney (including Bondi Beach, where Paris lives). Prepare for plentiful Opera House pictures - I *am* a tourist after all.