Nice one Doug!
Had the opportunity to do a bit of binocular viewing in dark skies last week from White Cliffs, NE of Broken Hill (between clouds, LOL!). M31 was great, easy naked eye too. Saw M33 as a ghostly patch, but the lights of the town (such as it is!) in the same direction killed any chance of naked-eye. Did heaps of other bright galaxies including NGC253, NGC55 etc, and LMC was a spectacular bino sight!
Yep, the skies have it!
Cheers -