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The students have to keep journal describing their experience. I thought you might want to read what one student wrote of her expereince after visiting the War Memorial in Canberra. "Splashes of color lined the names of those who gave their lives, red poppies stained by the blood they freely gave. As I stook there in the silence, soaking it all in, I was amazed. The eternal flame burned brightly in its resting place, keeping the memory alive. The brilliant colors of stained glass illuminated to show the faces of the brave men and women who served their country. The Austrailian [View Full Entry]

P2P - Bambi Edwards | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 3rd 2009 | 102 Views | [diary=414762]


Cathedral Fig
Cathedral Fig
This tree was absolutely huge but the pictures just cannot capture it.
Well folks I have finally found time to upload the promised pictures. We are now at our second home at River Heads and Ann and Bernie have left for Gove. We will spend a couple of days getting the red dust out of the boat and would like to do some fishing around Fraser. On the way home from Weipa we stopped at a caravan park in Mareeba and hosed off the truck, camper and boat but when we arrived here and took the cover off the boat there was red dust everywhere. Most of the photos are from the Atherton [View Full Entry]

Formo - John and Maree Forman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 2nd 2009 | 13 Views | [diary=414586]

Crater Creek
Curlew
Flower

Meet "Bells"
Meet "Bells"
Bells is one of the neighbourhood cats we like to play with. He's a friendly one.
We know we’ve been a bit slack with the blogging but it turns out it makes a difference when you don’t have easy internet access. Sorry about that. We write our blogs most of the time in Word and then publish them online when we can. We don’t have too much of an excuse for last week: we were pretty blog-lazy. I have to say thanks to all of you commenting on our blogs, we love it! It was a beautiful week in Sydney last week and spent our time golfing (well, if you call 3 holes in 1 hour golfing), [View Full Entry]

SKMantle - Shane & Kim Mantle | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 6th 2009 | 29 Views | [diary=415556]

Meet "Smudge"
Meet "C.C."
Nice view on our usual walk to Manly

Departing
Departing
This is the convoy ready to leave from Apple Tree Creek (just north of Childers)
Hi all, Sorry for the length of time it has taken to get something on the blog but we have not had the coverage unitl now. I have included some pictures that probably tell their own story. We had 5 weeks at Weipa and left with a freezer full of fish. We caught a variety of fish including cod, bream, Queenfish, Jewfish, Grunter, Salmon, Tuskfish, Stripeys and Mother in Laws but no Barramundi. It was certainly a learning experience and we have thoroughly enjoyed it. The weather was certainly tropical with not much difference between day and night temperatures and the [View Full Entry]

Formo - John and Maree Forman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 21st 2009 | 29 Views | [diary=410628]

Middle of Nowhere
Are We There Yet?
The Perfect Circle

Otesha Rocks!
Otesha Rocks!
Our awesome host, Richard Kazlowski of Red Deer, did this in the snow for us one snowy morning!
Hi! Here are some kickass photos for you! Some of the photos were taken from a Viterra Grain Elevator, where we toured. Enough grain to fill 100 railcars (literally) comes through that facility every WEEK. Almost all of the products that come through this elevator go through a long, long journey, ending up in Asia. In Asia, its packaged and occasionally shipped back to us with the "Product of Canada" label stamped on it. Man, can you say, redundant travel? Malt Barley and Feed Barley are the only grains that came from that facility that are NOT shipped overseas. Othe cool [View Full Entry]

Squidsickle - Tyler Walker | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 4th 2009 | 34 Views | [diary=405347]

Tyler and the Horses
Home
Someone Else's Stuff

We picked up our camper van on a sunny Sydney Sunday morning. We got a new improved model, which had a kitchen inside so we could cook whilst still staying snug and cosy in the van. It is much bigger than the last couple of vans we had but didn't cost much more for reasons we aren't too sure about but who's complaining? :-) Our first destination was to be the nation's much derided capital, Canberra. Canberra is a planned town built following Australian federation in 1901, but it took them a lot longer than that to build it obviously! We [View Full Entry]

mrandmrsbb - Mr and Mrs BB | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: July 9th 2009 | 3 Views | [diary=414249]

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Kangaroo
Kangaroo
Chris was trying to feed one of the kangaroos grass... it didn't bite.
For our 5 year anniversary, Chris and I went to feed animals at the National Zoo & Aquarium using the Zooventure Tour gift certificates we got for Christmas. Great present! [View Full Entry]

Chariot - H. Leong | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 24th 2009 | 32 Views | [diary=401580]

Black Capped Capuchin
Us
Us

So we left Gotcha in Mackay after some interesting time at work and some more interesting people and times with the gang! We flew direct to Sydney and stayed the night in the maze backpackers in central sydney, arrived fairly late so didn't see much of the city but SCORE we got upgraded to a 2-person room instead of an 8 bed dorm- much better considering half to residents there were drunk and sick by the time we arrived! The following day we headed off to navigate our way to the novotel to collect our wheels for the next couple of [View Full Entry]

gemandmatt - Gemma and Matt round the world adventures! | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 14th 2009 | 23 Views | [diary=398651]

Matt, Alana, Kat and Jo outside Paliament house
The giant tapestry in the great hall
Parliament house garden

The Wall of Honour
The Wall of Honour
The National War Museum
Well we've really done some proper travelling since we last posted, all of 10 days ago! From Sydney to Newcastle to Hunter Valley to the Blue Mountains and finally to Canberra. All in our little camp camper van. We've also got another name for her but first things first.... Before hitting the road we spent the morning at the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) Remembrance Parade in central Sydney. This was a quite moving experience being up close to thousands of veterans, we've seen the British Remembrance Day Parades before on TV but the atmosphere when you're actually there [View Full Entry]

MajaSteve - Our Big Asia Walkabout! | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: May 5th 2009 | 57 Views | [diary=395798]

Newcastle Beach
Hunter Valley Vineyard
Steve feeling a bit thirsty....

Hi All, Just thought we would let you all know that we are on the road again travelling north. We have had two nights at Johns cousin's in Maitland and are now just outside of Ballina at a roadside stop. Tomorrow we will go to Gympie to Uncle Geoff's. He will update us as to when we leave for Weipa and what we neeed to have on board. I am just testing my mobile broadband and it seems to be working OK so take care all and we will start posting some photos when we have something interesting to capture. Love [View Full Entry]

Formo - John and Maree Forman | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: April 27th 2009 | 25 Views | [diary=394248]



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