My dad and I hit the reef
A giant clam
Lots of fishies
Many other AWESOME animals live
in the land Down Under
A dingo ate my baby!
A cassowary, the modern velociraptor
An echidna, one of two egg-laying
mammals in the world.
The other is of course the duck
billed platypus (no picture available)
This froggy jumped out of the Daintree
rain forest and onto my head.
Note the Joey in the pouch
The second laziest animal on earth
(after housecats). These guys sleep 20 hours a day.
A delicious and nutritious witchity
grub, Aboriginee "bush tucker"
(food found in the wilderness)
My favorite animal in the whole
world, a wombat.
(The creature sitting on his lap
is also a wombat).
Some crocodile pictures
The preserved remains of the largest
croc ever (29 feet)
Jumping croc
How's that for a nightmare?
Speaking of nightmares, and slimy
reptiles,
there's Russel Crowe (on the left).
That jerk was mean to my mommy.
Only I'm allowed to be mean to
my mommy.
Other than Crowe, this was the
view from our hotel
The Opera House and the Harbor
Bridge
The Harbor Bridge, at the time
of construction, was the largest
of that type of bridge in the world.
Six months later,
the Bayonne (NJ) Bridge opened.
It was 18 inches longer.
That's how you get around in Sydney,
home of the world's largest harbor.
In Melbourne, you could get around
on a boat made out of beer cans.
Or on this subway tramcar restaurant.
We drove through busy traffic
while eating fancy meals, and were
sure to raise our champagne glasses to the commuters. Most were amused.
In stark contrast is Uluru (Ayers
Rock) at the center of the continent.
I'm the one in the grey
That's what the rock looks like
close up.
These paintings on the side of
the rock are believed to be
as old as 40 or 45 years.
While in the red center, the desert
in Australia's middle,
we had a feast. To cook in the
"bush", you put food in a pot and put hot coals on it. After demonstrating
this, the guide gave us two choices. 1- go inside and have a delicious
meal of food that was prepared already, or
2- sit there and watch the new
food cook.
My brother and I, naturally, chose
option 2.
While in New Zealand for an hour
on the way home
(that SO counts as being in New
Zealand),
we saw this sign in the airport.