We finished our whirlwind visit to Sydney and caught an Uber ride to the RV rental shop where I was briefed and given the keys.  Keep left they say, but my problem is keeping right in the lane.  Is tough but I’m getting better.  Enjoyed a last day in Sydney, Miranda actually, on the shore of Botany Bay.  Lovely water, today urban on the inside, but the shore is parkland.  

With no tv signal we walked to nearby (only a kilometer away) shopping mall with theater and watched (the ladies provided two votes) Downton Abbey, the Movie.  In the midst of it the servants were doing something naughty when one commented that if they did not do it well they would all be at Botany Bay.  We three looked at each other and laughed that we had come, not been sent for misbehavior, to this lovely part of the world.  I suspect that various English criminals woke up one day after their arrival in Australia to realize how lucky they had been to be sent here.

Yesterday, we drove to just outside of Canberra the capital, me trying to keep left and stay right in the lane with our rental rig.  This morning I drove it to the large lake at Canberra where we found lots of birds before visiting the National Museum of Australia.  Now back at camp where the spring has turned suddenly cooler again.  We can stand that and enjoy seeing the flowers and trees leafing out.  Seems crazy, this spring in October.  I quit this note as a cockatoo screeches from across the bond at this elegant caravan park.