2024-10-07 After the finale, Brisbane city reminisced, we are now back home. Stories aplenty, looking forward …
2024-10-05 Jacarandas in flower all over Brisbane. Homeward bound now.
2024-10-05 Janette and Ian visit their school in Brisbane.
2024-10-02 Cable Beach at Broome. Last night in WA.
2024-10-01 Bat hangout on Yardy Creek hike.
2024-10-01 Now in Broome. Back east to Brisbane tomorrow. Fly to Toronto on Sunday, home late. See ya soon.
2024-10-02 Heading down to the beach for sunset. Can’t capture the awesome size and expanse in a photo.
2024-10-02 Tiny crabs emerge at low tide to work on their caves, excavating balls of sand.
2024-10-02 Stayed a night at 80 Mile Beach on the way to Broome. It’s actually 90 miles of very remote beach.
2024-10-01 Indian Ocean sunset at 80 Mile Beach
2024-09-29 Snorkeling Ningaloo Reef
2024-09-29 Cape Range
2024-09-29 Car window shots. The view for hours between Carnarvon and Karratha. Termite mounds by the …
2024-09-29 Made it to the moon.
2024-09-29 Apollo 11 launch simulator at Carnarvon space museum. Station here was involved in communication and …
2024-09-29 Tiny crabs all with one very large claw, waving at each other in unison. Hilarious. Mangrove …
2024-09-29 Yardy creek hike at Cape Range National Park
2024-09-29 Black-flanked rock wallaby mum and joey
2024-09-29 Little Corella
2024-09-29 Galah
2024-09-29 Great Egret
2024-09-24 This week headed up the coast north of Perth for parks at river gorges and amazing display of spring …
2024-09-24 Eagle Bluff near Denham. Well named, didn’t see any eagles… a shark, a ray, lots of gulls and …
2024-09-24 Sunset on the Indian Ocean. Out on a boat tour. Clouds made for a fabulous show.
2024-09-24 Red Bluffs near town of Kalbarri where we stayed. View from hike at top and also from the water on a …
2024-09-24 Kalbarri Z-bend
2024-09-24 Kalbarri Nature’s Window, with a tourist butt in it.
2024-09-24 Kalbarri Skywalk.
2024-09-24 Kalbarri springtime blooms.
2024-09-24 Kalbarri National Park also full of flowers.
2024-09-24 Lots of yellow ones.
2024-09-24 Only blogging a sample of the various flowers. Small ground hugging succulents to large flowering …
2024-09-24 Mt. Lesueur National Park. Wildflowers in all shapes and sizes.
2024-09-22 Western Australia in full spring wildflower bloom. Over a thousand varieties. Many more to come.
2024-09-21 The Pinnacles Desert hike in Nambung National Park, WA
2024-09-20 WA sand dune imitation snow
2024-09-18 “This here’s the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle or you can hold …
2024-09-18 Great overlook of city of Perth from walks at Kings Park.
2024-09-18 Trip to Perth art gallery disappointing, slogan on their wall captures sentiment.
2024-09-17 Touring out of Margaret River and Fremantle the past week in WA. Rottnest island wins the beauty …
2024-09-17 Long nosed fur seals. Wallowing around with one flipper and tail raised. Like synchronized swimmers …
2024-09-17 Many beautiful coves and bays on Rottnest Island. On off bus great for hiking.
2024-09-17 Quokka on Rottnest Island. Think wallaby mated with a rat.
2024-09-17 Fremantle prison tour, interesting history, originally convicts from England then a notorious place …
2024-09-17 A pint at Little Creatures brewery in Fremantle.
2024-09-14 Kings Skink
2024-09-14 Hamelin Bay
2024-09-14 Seemingly misnamed Rock parrot, almost tripped on him in the grass.
2024-09-14 Cape Leeuwin, southwest corner of Australia.
2024-09-14 Cape Leeuwin lighthouse.
2024-09-13 At Cape Leeuwin, whales in the waves. Southern right sp. we think.
2024-09-12 Sheep grazing among the vines before leafing out. Wine tour, Margaret River region. Bordeaux …
2024-09-10 A night in Toogoolawah, last one in Queensland for a while. The exchange hotel, just up the street …
2024-09-10 All good with us. Posted from the road leading to Esk and Toogoolawah. Off to Western Australia …
2024-09-09 A couple of finds at an enormous museum in Miles. Antique harp called a boomerang and a school …
2024-09-09 Toured the Roma Saleyard. The largest cattle auction facility in Oz. 400,000 head a year. Saw road …
2024-09-09 Bottle tree in Roma. Over 9 meters girth.
2024-09-09 Our home base for hikes in Carnarvon Gorge. Uncle Pete came along with us.
2024-09-09 Barb wire emu, at sculpture exhibition in Roma. Have seen real ones.
2024-09-08 Warrumbah Gorge hike.
2024-09-08 Art Gallery at Carnarvon Gorge. Symbolic imagery of human culture 4,000 years ago.
2024-09-08 Wallabies
2024-09-08 Gorge hike, six stone-hopping crossings.
2024-09-08 Carnarvon Gorge hike.
2024-09-08 Alarm clock bird. Wakes the rest of them. Every morning a cacophony.
2024-09-08 On the way to Carnarvon Gorge. Sharing the road.
2024-09-08 We’re in cattle country. No surprise, two per pack.
2024-09-04 Making tinnie chook at Pete and Di’s. Translation: tinnie=beer can, chook=chicken.
2024-09-04 Anzac memorial at Emu Park. A painting, “The Spirit — Gallipoli Landing 1915” mounted on glass in …
2024-09-02 Turtle checking out a Dusky Moorhen.
2024-09-02 Visit to the Mackay Botanic Gardens. Spoonbill.
2024-09-02 On the health front, Ian has acquired some kind of ear fungus.
2024-09-02 Highlights from the past week include rainforest hikes, Baron Falls, Kuranda, Atherton Tablelands …
2024-09-02 We visited cousin Richard and Karen in Mackay. Walked the art trail and had a nice lunch at their …
2024-09-02 Sunset at Bird’s Cafe in Bowen. Nice feed of fish, chips, calamari and scallops — minus one that a …
2024-09-02 Driving in Queensland you pass endless fields of sugar cane and banana that get bagged up on the …
2024-09-02 Shots from the car window driving down from the Atherton Tablelands. Magnificent vistas.
2024-09-02 Lake Eacham, a crater lake formed from ancient volcano. Oasis on the tableland.
2024-09-02 Impossible to capture this massive Curtain Fig tree in a photo. Worth the sidetrack to stand in it’s …
2024-09-02 We visited Chris and Marjorie in Kuranda. J and J were good friends with Chris 40 some years ago …
2024-09-02 Barron Falls at Kuranda. Dry season but still beautiful.
2024-08-31 Petit Cafe in Kuranda makes amazing buckwheat crapes, this one roasted banana, almond with …
2024-08-31 These guys everywhere
2024-08-31 Twisted vine symbolizes marital union at this marriage sight in the rainforest.
2024-08-31 Trevayne, our guide on walk at Mossman Gorge Cultural Centre. He explained many traditions including …
2024-08-31 Sisyphus James
2024-08-31 One of many ferns. Mossman Gorge is rainforest, always a stunning variety of plants.
2024-08-31 Mossman Gorge
2024-08-31 Mossman Gorge
2024-08-31 Morning hike at Mossman Gorge.
2024-08-27 Four mile beach at Port Douglas. Resort town full of southern winter escapees, using as our base for …
2024-08-26 White-lipped tree frog stowaway on the crocodile search boat.
2024-08-26 Hiking the rainforest.
2024-08-26 Lesson for roadside sweet corn sellers in Ontario.
2024-08-26 Highlights for this week include Townsville, Cassowary and Crocodile sightings in the Daintree …
2024-08-26 Crocodile hunting with a guide on a solar powered boat proved fruitful. Adult female sunning. Got …
2024-08-26 Cape Tribulation from the North. Early morning tour, three of us and our guide, Cane.
2024-08-26 Out here with a guide, guy named Cane, a local and was here during the cyclone Jasper and aftermath. …
2024-08-26 Hanging out at our Daintree rainforest cabin.
2024-08-26 The best of four cassowary sightings. This one marched out of the bush onto the trail we were …
2024-08-23 Mango Man this time. (We gave the Big Gumboot a miss.)
2024-08-23 Castle Hill Lookout, Townsville.
2024-08-23 View from Castle Hill Lookout over Townsville.
2024-08-23 Beach at The Strand, Townsville.
2024-08-23 Swim practice for the World Triathlon Championships at Townsville. A coincidence to our visit there, …
2024-08-23 Airlie Beach, where we set off sailing the Whitsundy Islands in 2006.
2024-08-23 The big mango at Bowen, home of Kensington Pride — often regarded as one of the favourite eating …
2024-08-23 Line from Men at Work song “Down under” circa 1981. This in a museum among WW 2 artifacts.
2024-08-23 Giant cane toad, one of many giants here. An invasive species!
2024-08-23 Lunch at a classic country pub
2024-08-20 Highlights for the past week: visit with Di, Pete and Bron at Cooee Bay, Lady Musgrave Island …
2024-08-20 Beach at Agnes Water.
2024-08-20 Wreck Point overlooking the Keppel Islands. A short walk from Ropers.
2024-08-20 Cooee Bay visiting Di, Pete and Bron.
2024-08-19 Swimming at Finch Hatton gorge. The real Canadian was the only one in. Cottage country in May temp.
2024-08-19 Finch Hatton Gorge hike
2024-08-19 Brush Turkey
2024-08-19 Read about a plan to build a huge dam that will result in massive habitat destruction. …
2024-08-19 Flying fox bats… probably a couple hundred! Noisy and large dumps one does not want to wear.
2024-08-19 Not really a fern fiddle head, more like a double bass head!
2024-08-19 Hiking in Eungella
2024-08-19 View from the top down back to Finch Hatton where we stayed.
2024-08-19 Drove this road to Eungella Park, steep switchbacks!
2024-08-19 Camera battery failure meant few of our pics from the island, but we did see green turtles like this …
2024-08-19 Great time snorkeling in the lagoon and wandering the island at this oasis at the southern end of …
2024-08-19 Heading to Lady Musgrave Island
2024-08-19 Finally some sun at beach, Agnes Water
2024-08-19 Plumed Whistling Duck
2024-08-13 Even our guides remarked on the unusual number of whales we were able to see up close.
2024-08-13 We saw several pods of juvenile humpback whales which stop here on their way to Antarctica for the …
2024-08-13 We had an outstanding trip on a tour guided by the Pacific Whale Foundation, a research …
2024-08-11 Whale watching at Hervey Bay… jaw dropping. Got “mugged” as it’s called when a pod of whales …
2024-07-21 From the 2020 trip. Tasmania. The adventure begins in one week!
2024-07-16 From the 2020 trip, outside of Adelaide… not camping this time!
2024-07-03 From the Kimberly tour, 2006.
2024-06-26 From the 2020 trip… looking forward to the 2024 replay.
2024-06-26 The road to Carnarvon Gorge 40 years ago. Apparently the road is paved now. Looking forward to …
2024-06-21 From 2006 trip to the Kimberley