More rain

Despite this month supposedly being the hottest and most humid month, the rain and cool weather has continued over the past week, with some heavy downpours causing local flooding and powercuts just up the coast as trees have also been blown down. There was a brief respite in the middle of last week but then the end of the week and Saturday were wet again. The Sydney dam levels are now at twice the level of last year and the new desalination plant that's being built to the south of the city has been flooded! (Here's some coverage from the news).

Sunday was a better day and so Sue and I drove to the city in the afternoon to visit the National Maritime Museum at Darling Harbour as we hadn't been insider before and there were several exhibitions on which we wanted to see - it's an interesting and well-laid out museum and we could have spent more time there, but the car was on a meter (and we couldn't remember which street it was parked on!). However, on the walk back to the car we detoured through Star City to have a look at this large 'entertainment centre' and casino.