Day twenty

Last night we walked down to the Bronte seafront and had fish and chips - or barramundi in a lime sauce with chips in my case  

Barramundi and chips

  A marathon day at the Sydney Olympic Park. We made extensive use of the transport network today. A bus, a train, a train and on other train. All to get to the Olympic Park that was built for the 2000 Olympics and has now become a lot of stadiums and hotels surrounded by parkland and wetlands. The site was previously used as a saltworks, brickworks and abattoir.  It is much better now. We managed to walk round most of the good bits!

Our route.

There were well made paths and abundant wildlife on a variety of wetland environments. The first was a mangrove swamp.

Mangrove

Then on to the ponds. 

Water

Black wing stilts

Immature black swans

Two pelicans passing overhead

The noise of cicadas was very loud at one point and I managed to spot the offenders..

Red eyed black cicada

And more spiders than you could shake a very big stick at....

Spider alley

And they were big ones!

Spider!