Went to watch the lil fairy penguins come onto the beach last night, sat in a swanky bay with a bottle of sav blanc! Unfortunately there's only one family left now as a wild dog ate nine last year! The lil penguin family did arrive however the fine wine seemed to take our minds off the task in hand and we missed the 5 second window of opportunity, doooohhhh!

Today is culture day and my first stop is the justice and police museum! Love getting in half price with my student discount! The venona project was set up by America in 1943 to decode diplomatic cables set to Moscow from soviet embassies around the world! The Australian security intelligence organisation was set up to protect Australia from espionage, sabotage and subversion and spied on and kept detailed files on thousands of innocent government workers, students etc, however it turns out, they were following the wrong people!

Oscar Wilde once said 'one is absolutely sickened not by the crimes the wicked have committed, but by the punishments the good have inflicted'!
As in the uk, aboriginals and black people are treated harsher by the criminal justice system and they don't understand why the European law changes so often when their own restorative justice way seems to be more effective although doesn't really fit with today's social norms!
Apparently within the next 10 years, Australia will introduce the human genome project, the ability to discover human propensities, in new born babies via DNA analysis! This approach clearly favours the nature over nurture theory!

My next stop was the museum of Sydney where I learnt about the 10 most influential visionaries who shaped Sydneys city!

The Surf exhibition was excellent and it was interesting to discover how quickly the surf board shrunk in size enabling turning and side riding the wave due to the Californian influence! There were models and stories of the first 11 fleet ships swell as stories from convicts, housemaids and aboriginal people from
Back in the day!

Went for a Japanese meal tonight, not really feeling the sashimi (thats raw fish to my derby friends), although I did eat the soft shell crab, salmon and Philadelphia sushi which was rather alright! Got soooo much planned for the next two weeks it's untrue, good nite people's!!!