Australia Museum

Nick started work on the 16th of January and I had a week before moving to our apartment in Randwick with the boys on my own. We decided to explore the city on the bus and got a weeks bus pass.

Australia Museum. The family who lived in our apartment before us said their children had absolutely loved this place and we quickly discovered why.

Here is Ollie posing with some of the infamous Sydney Funnel Web Spiders, notoriously the most poisonous spider in the whole world. Let me tell you I have read a lot about these ones and they are actually quite interesting. The males are the problem ones in that they become very aggressive during the mating season (which is now by the way Summer/Autumn) and overwhelmed by hormonal surges they lose all of their senses, other than one that is, and go on the hunt for females. Occasionally during this time they come in to houses. The males have serious fangs and these hide underneath their mouths. About the size of your thumb nail, pretty impressive. Well the Australia Museum loves this sort of thing and has many ways of looking at alsorts of scary insects, down microsopes and up close. Oliver loved it, and so did I. Alex was slightly more cautious. They also had the most impressive dinosaur exhibition alonside the biggest dead insect collection I have ever seen. We have already been back twice!! The map was to show the location of the museum just to the right of Hyde Park, put your specs on to see!