Gibson’s World

Sydney is a really cool city and it has a lot of interesting things like the Olympic Stqdium, the aquarium, the zoo, the opera house, the bridge, the Tower, the Blue Mountains, and the Australian Museum.  It’s my favorite city so far on the trip :-). 

When we went to the aquarium, we saw a lot of cool animals and fish.  My favorite animal was the platypus.  We saw him do flips in the water.  I learned that male playypuses have venomous spurs and they can kill other animals that threaten them.  The platypus is a monotreme and it lays eggs.  We also saw sharks, crocodiles, and other fish.

We took a ferry and a tram to the zoo, and we saw lots of things including koalas, spotted quolls, giraffes and wombats .  My favorite was the koala.  We saw the koalas jump and walk around a lot.  And I got a really good video of them.  We learned that koalas aren’t bears, but are marsupials.  The wombat was really funny because he was hiding his head under leaves.  The zoo was my favorite thing that I did in Sydney.

When we went to the Blue Mountains, we saw kangaroos and fed Crimson Rosellas.  The kangaroos were wild, but really well-behaved.  We got about four feet away from them.  Crimson Rosellas are a type of parrot.  I was feeding one of the Rosellas out of my hand when it flew away and left me with a cut on my hand.

The Australian Museum had lots of really interesting things.  I liked the rocks, minerals and gems section the best.  One of my favorite rocks was the zebra rock (right), which looks like a piece of meat but is a natural rock that nobody painted! 

From the Tower in Sydney, you can see a long way.  You can see the 2000 Olympic Stadium, the Opera House, the Harbour Bridge, and lots more.  On the left is a picture of the Olympic Stadium that I took from the top of the Tower.  The Olympic Stadium has the biggest capacity of any Olympic stadium ever. 

[The Harbour Bridge below]                         [The Tower below]

On our trip, I am most looking forward to seeing China, Australia, and Antarctica.

In China, am looking forward to seeing the Great Wall of China, panda bears, and eating Chinese food. In Australia, I would like to see platypuses, koalas, and the Great Barrier Reef. And in Antarctica, I hope I can see penguins, seals, and polar bears.

I’m not sure that I want to go to Kenya, Ecuador, or the Galapagos because they’re on the equator and they will probably be really hot. I do want to go to the Galapagos though, because we will be going on a boat.

There are lots of animals that I am looking forward to seeing. I am looking forward to seeing whales, fish, platypuses, koalas, panda bears, and maybe some dogs.

In school I will probably learn a lot more than I would usually learn. I am looking forward to writing reports on animals and other topics. We will also do a lot of work on the plane rides. I think we will learn and do a lot of new things on our trip.

This is Scallop. She is really lazy. In this picture, she is curled up in a ball.