Tuesday:
A lovely morning, went outside and it was like walking in front of a giant hairdryer.
We caught the bus into the city, then made our way through the concrete jungle to the State Library where we had seen the Lynley Dodd (Hairy MaClary) exhibition on our previous trip. We were directed to a free tour that was just about to start, interesting but perhaps a little too cultural for us, there are only so much time that you can spend looking at paintings of early settlements in Australia.
Then it was into the adjacent Botanical Gardens, we noticed that the cloud had come in whilst we had been in the library and we had not gone far when a few spots of rain fell. fortunately  we were close to the Caylx, a building containing a café and exhibition of carnivorous plants. By the time we got there the wind had strengthened and the rain was falling in bucket fulls!
We stayed there whilst the storm raged, not too long but enjoyed the 'Plants that bite' exhibition. The news on TV this morning says the storm only last about 10 minutes with winds up to 100kph. It has caused considerable damage throughout the city.

There are also a number of painted Koalas around the gardens rather like the Cirencester hare trail.

From the gardens it was back into the city as we were looking for 'Morris's' the wool shop that we went to last time. We found QVB, the amazing Victorian shopping arcade with the Swarovski Christmas tree.

Then it was on to the wool shop before catching the bus back to Dee Why.