Sydney, Australia | July 2024
Passing through New Zealand
6 am after flying to Auckland from Houston.
After some flight changes, we headed to Sydney from Auckland via Queenstown...
...which meant flying over the Southern Alps and landing in between some really big mountains.
The view from the Queenstown Airport.
En route to Sydney!
A Day at Taronga Zoo
Views from the ferry.
A fennet fox enjoying a heat lamp.
Red Panda
A gorilla eating some veggies.
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Capybaras... the world's largest rodents!
A well-trained dingo.
A pygmy hippo with attitude.
One koala.
Two koala.
Three koala.
The Australian bushwalk... there were no fences between us and wallabies, kangaroos, and emus!
A tasmanian devil.
ICME-15
Pre-Conference workout and breakfast.
Registration... the kiosk printed out my badge on-site.
The International Congress on Math Education is the largest math education conference in the world. ICME-15 had 2300+ attendees from 97 countries!
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A didgeridoo exhibition and a lesson about Aboriginal culture. There are over 800 Aboriginal tribes in Australia, each with their own traditional language.
A Sydney Walkabout
Hyde Park
The Royal Botanic Gardens
The Australian Museum
12 miles later.
The Rocks Historical Walking Tour & Another (accidental) Sydney Walkabout
We got to the tour a little early, so we stopped in to watch some candy being made.
The Argyle Stairs
This is Jon, our tour guide.
We learned a lot about Sydney's history, according to Jon.
Including Brutalist architecture,
Some very old houses,
Quite a few famous convicts,
and their handiwork - sandstone blocks created with pickaxes and mortar made with shells from the beaches.
Lunch at the Fine Foods Store, a recommendation from Jon.
The Rocks Museum & The Museum of Contemporary Art
The Poor Man's BridgeClimb
We accidentally got off the ferry one stop early.
12 miles later.
An Excursion to Dapto
One (Final) Walkabout
The Chinese Garden of Friendship
The Queen Victoria Building
The Sydney Aquarium
"Fish are friends, not food."
Paddy's Markets
Sydney @ Nite
