BurbleChaz

Our apartment has no double glazing. Because of this I can inform you from first-hand experience that they party long and hard in Melbourne. Last revellers shut up at 0430, first tram is before 0600.

We went to pick the car up. It's a Nissan Nasty or Honda Horrible or some such. No remote locking, no electric windows, 60,000Ks on the clock. Hey ho.

Next, we went to buy a serious outdoor adventure coat for those who feel the cold most. Got an excellent one. As soon as we bought it, the sun shone brightly and the temperature rose five degrees. Result.

Found a perfectly adequate supermarket five minutes from the flat, and bought the makings of a meal. Food seems to be quite cheap here. Also, there is a pretty reasonable booze shop there.

After some people had topped up on snooze, we went for a walk down along the Yarra, and came back via the Aquarium. It's excellent. they have all sorts of cool cephalopods, lots of fish, and a huge environment containing some very large (~3m long) sharks. The engineering is almost as impressive as the biology. For me, though, the highlight was the ctenophore exhibit. They have a load of realy beautiful jellyfish happily swimming actively in tanks. The circular verically mounted tanks are around a metre across or larger, and maybe 150-200 mm thick. They have a slow circulating current, and the jellyfish swim actively against it. I've never seen ctenophores in captivity before. Very cool.

Then, off to a microbrewery for a beer (only one - honest) and home to cook.

Beer: James Squire Original Amber Ale