If my younger self knew I had gone all the way to Australia and not seen the Great Barrier reef, he wouldn’t have believed it. But Australia is big, and the reef is much damaged since my youth, so we settled for the aquarium in Sydney. Informative, if not aimed at a slightly younger audience, the wide range of displays was a good morning's worth of edutainment. Highlights included: Australian lungfish (who haven’t changed much in 300 million years!), some amazing shark tanks with walk-under tubes, some beautiful rays (including a natural clone created via parthenogenesis in the all female community), and a dugong named Pig that eats 65 lbs of lettuce everyday. 

After the aquarium, my parents and I went to Dune II while Kaia did some shopping. We met up for dinner in Chinatown, before returning to the hotel.