I must apologize for having not posted anything since my arrival in Australia. The flight from Los Angeles to Sydney was somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 hours and it just simply wore me out, I needed some time to recover. In any case, Eric and I got up this morning and with Dave, who's house we're staying at, went for breakfast and coffee. The coffee here is pretty phenomenal, I've been to two different coffee shops already and both were excellent. Eric and I then walked to Tamarama for a swim which was terrific!! The water temperature was around 22 degrees celsius, so about 72 degrees fahrenheit, we could have stayed in the water all day long at that temp. The water here in this part of the Pacific seems rather different than that of the Atlantic water that I'm used to. Eric and I both agreed that it seems to have a greater salt content than either of us has experienced anywhere else. Very salty. Also of note is that the ocean water here looks very much like the ocean water that we've seen off the California coast but it smells much more like the water of the Mid Atlantic, very interesting differences. 

I have to say that the women here in Australia are beautiful and there are lots of them. Lots. And again lots!! Eric and I have to keep our heads on a swivel around here so we don't miss any of them. The thing is that we've only experienced what it's like here on a weekday, one single weekday and already it might be more than Eric and I can take. Dave has warned us that come the weekend the women here are going to break us both. Well if that's the case, I guess I'll just have to be broken!! Now if that isn't bad enough it gets worse and here's why... Sydney beaches are topless! Eric and I weren't warned of this fact until it was to late and as you might well imagine our first encounter was, well an eye opener. Important to mention is that it's impolite to stare, take into account that even though Australia is western, english speaking country it is still a different culture and that must be respected. To be clear though most women do wear bikini tops, but not all of them, and it simply and clearly illustrates how uptight and, to be rather blunt, prude Americans can be. I have plenty more to write but it's getting late and I'm very tired. Right now it's 11:33 pm here in OZ but my body is still telling me that it's 6:33 am in College Station so I'm off to bed!! 

Ian