At the zoo

 We had a sleep in day (not that it really mattered as we were awake at pretty much the usual times).

We picked up a couple of MyKi cards (for the tram service) and loaded them up with enough to keep us going until Sunday. Unfortunately Caro lost her card so ended up buying her another one at the end of the day (and basically she took a chance “riding the rails” without paying). I tried paying twice with my card but it doesn’t work like that.

First stop was the zoo. Melbourne has a beautiful zoo and we spent four

Death adder

                            

Cobra

                            Platypus reaching up with beak (snout?) to get leaf to eat

                                                                        So cuddly

                            
                                                    One more (just because!)

                                                            Wombat

Kangaroos

                                                            Emu

                                                            Peccary

                                                        Small penguins

                                                        Silverback Lowland gorilla

                                                            One of the babies in the water

                        
                                                            Orangutan 

                                                            Dingo

                                                    A zoomed half photo of a Tasmanian Devil

After the zoo was finished we went back to the CBD and went directly to the Queen Victoria market where Caro did some more souvenir shopping and picked up some fruit. It’s a “happening place” and is well known to the people here.

Now it was off to the Victoria State library. It is a gorgeous building and was full of people reading etc. I was there to see something of interest to me. It was the armour used in the final gun fight with police by an extremely famous bush ranger named Ned Kelly. He is as famous here as Robin Hood in England and Jesse James in the US.

The armour protected him from getting shot and incapacitated  in the core of his body (as evidenced by the dents in the metal). Unfortunately for Ned the police changed tactics and shot him in his unprotected legs. His three compatriots were killed in the shoot out but he survived to face a trial (and then be hanged)

It was time for a late lunch/early supper so we walked out of the  area to a street recommended by our tour guide yesterday. Here we had a choice of multiple kinds of food restaurants. We knew there were good Italian places here so we picked one with many patrons (a VERY good choice by us)

One of the best Italian dishes we have ever had, Pasta El Forno-Russo.

We walked back into the CBD distrust (free trams in this area of town) and soon caught the touristy tram #35 back to our area.

After a nice break in our room we went out to purchase some food for our in-room breakfast tomorrow morning.

Caro tells me we walked another 25 km today!