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Sydney Harbor Bridge |
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First food in Australia - Chips and beer. Yum! |
Sydney Opera House |
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Tiles on the Opera House up close |
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Sydney skyline from the Botanical gardens |
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Dressed in our Bridge Climb gear. They didn't let us take cameras, so no pictures of that. |
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The main drag at Manly beach |
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The ferry ride to Manly gave a nice view of Sydney |
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Julie happy at Manly beach :) |
Manly beach |
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The return ferry ride out of Manly to Circular Quay |
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Melbourne |
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Some of the awesome food arcades in Melbourne |
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Downtown Melbourne train station |
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Keith, Frances, and Rich |
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Julie in Ballarat on the way to McLaren Vale. Mmmm meat pies. |
White Kangaroos |
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Aldinga beach |
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Winery view |
Winetasting at D'Arenburg |
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Snooping around the vineyards near our McLaren Vale accomodations |
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A friendly sheep |
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Sunset on the way to dinner at the Victory Hotel |
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Looking out the back patio of our Mc Laren Vale accomodations |
Kangaroo island road |
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Australian working hours are 12pm to 1pm :) |
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Our vehicle, a ute |
The beach at Emu bay |
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Exploring a trail at Emu bay |
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Pelicans near Kingscote |
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A fantastic restaurant we found in Kingscote, open late. Highly recommended. |
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Hey, whatever works. An old fork will do. |
We loved the roads on Kangaroo island. |
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Bees at Clifford's honey farm |
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I was going to Photoshop these pictures together but oh well :) |
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Seal Bay |
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A pup at Seal bay |
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Little Sahara - very cool |
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Hiking to the top of the san dune was tough... |
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If you look at the next four pictures quickly you can see me run :) |
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...and hike back up :) |
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The hands-in-the-air thing became a common theme. |
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Some people in the distance. They were carrying sandboards to ride down on. Like a snowboard, but for sand. |
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Burger "with the lot" - it was delicious. |
A baby joey |
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These weren't the most spectacular caves in the world, but caves are always cool. These particular caves are dry caves. |
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Kangaroos just hanging out. |
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A Koala. We saw a handful of them on the Koala Walk. |
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These parrots were flying all over at the Koala walk |
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Heading west towards Flinders Chase National Park |
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The "Remarkable Rocks." Pictures don't do it justice. |
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Late in the day we had some fantastic colors and shadows on the rocks. |
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At the western end of the road in the National Park. The wind was howling, waves were crashing, and the sky was awesome. It was totally invigorating. |
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Admirals Arch at the end of the road. Again, pictures don't do it justice. |
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Looking south from the point. It felt very arctic at the time with the wind and waves crashing. |
A lighthouse at the point. |
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The old schoolhouse on Kangaroo island, where we stayed. |
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Keith with a wonderful leg of lamb |
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Julie, Tamara's boyfriend (I am awful with names, sorry), Keith, Tamara, and Frances, our wonderful hosts in Melbourne |
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Now we're in Brisbane. Julie needed her Guinness on St. Patty's day... |
... and I went for the rum and coke in a can. It was interesting. |
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At Hervey bay waiting for the ferry to Fraser island |
Walking to our room at the Kingfisher resort on Fraser island |
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Walking around the resort grounds. It didn't seem very occupied. |
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This is definately rainforest country. |
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The beach in front of the resort. |
I became fascinated with the patterns the sand crabs would make with the sand from their tunnel digging. This one looks like the Canadian flag. |
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The sand pebbles felt good to walk on. |
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We went four wheeling. There are no paved roads on Fraser Island. Some of it was pretty legit/difficult/rough - this was a good stretch. |
Us at Lake McKenzie, a freshwater lake in the middle of the 100% sand island. |
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The lack of sunshine made this look drearier than it was. |
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The ants are big here. This one was probably 5/8 inch long. |
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Some of the rougher roadway |
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Horsefly. These suckers hurt when they bite. |
More sand crab sand balls. There were millions/billions of these on the eastern shore of the island. |
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Julie dancing on seventy-five mile beach :) |
The freeway up and down the beach :) As you can see we didn't get real lucky with the weather. |
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The last picture my camera took before I dropped it in the ocean trying to swat away a horsefly. Grrr..... This is our 4x4 rental on seventy-five mile beach. |
The road back to the resort |
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Julie saved me from the Death Adder :) And I made a bad joke about someone being bad at math. |
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Houses on the drive back to Brisbane. They are raised off the ground like in Hawaii, presumably due to the high humidity |
We had a mocha here in Tiaro |
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A souvenir we just didn't need to bring home, found in a shop in Brisbane |
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Having a drink on the main Arcade in Brisbane |
Back in Sydney. For our final night we splurged on a nice room at the Shangri La. What a view. |
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Walking around Sydney. I don't know what this was. |
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The Sydney Observation tower. |
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The view from the top of the observation tower. |
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It kinda goes together... |
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Darling harbor at night, where we went for dinner |
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Sydney sunrise from our hotel room. |
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Walking around a street fair before our flight home :( |
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