Australia

Australia

Oceania » Australia
September 1st 2007

Published: October 31st 2007

Day 197 - Day 253 (11.07.07 - 09.09.07) Australia's biggest attraction is its natural beauty. The landscape varies from endless sunbaked horizons to dense tropical rainforest to chilly southern beaches. Scattered along the coasts, its cities blend a European enthusiasm for art and food with a laid-back love of sport and the outdoors. VICTORIA Melbourne - briefly Our first stop in Australia... Read Full Entry

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We found Nemo!

And with his family!! Daddy Nemo was chasing nemo and his brother/sister back into their home, but the kids were curious and kept coming out to look at us, mum was sitting worrying inside!! They really were just like in the film, bet they were wondering why everyone is suddenly looking at them though! To capture the true colours we needed a red flitered camera which unfortuantely we didn't have.

Turtle encounter

busy munching away on coral early in the morning, these turtles were not shy or bothered at all by us divers and allowed us to take a photo from 10 cm away!

The Joker!

underwater pose, that only Christian could pull off

Giant Clam!

One of many, these cool shell had attitude, get too close and it would have you or your fin!

Sweet Lip fish, GBR

out of all the millions of incredible fish we saw, this is one of the better photos!

Aussie monster!

croc's like this rule in the northern parts of Australia

Who ate all the pies - Fat Albert!

Cape Tribulation, where rainforest meets beach!

a tropical coastline, trees literally emersed in sea!

Tree climbing, Cape Trib

giant strangler fig tree, Cape Trib

these stranglers take hold of a tree and literally squeeze the life out of it until the original tree become a hollow

Warning on the Daintree river, Cape Trib

we had to cross this river (despite the warning) to get to where we were trekking to - the danger is serious though as we saw earlier, at another point on the same river

Vine swinging, a natural swing, Cape Trib

The Red Centre, The Olgas

the start of a 7.4 km trek in the desert heat, we were dwarfed by these red rocks, although not as famous as Ayers rock, these rocks are meant to have more spiritual presence, we only felt the heat though!

The Olgas at sunset

we waited for more than 2 hours to watch the sun go down over these rocks, and sure enough they did go very very red!

Ayers Rock, before sunrise

at the crack of dawn, its freezing cold out here in the red centre, until the sun comes up!

River Gorge on the way to Monkey Mia

we stopped off on our west australia road trip briefly to admire this river gorge, it was soo hot - 40degrees maybe and we so wanted a swim, but with a chance of crocs haunting these waters we didn't dare!

Shell Beach, WA

Helen sunbathing/shell searching on this heritage site beach, it was made up only of white shells, that grinded down over time has become sand, below the thousands of layers of shells

Some of Australias regular birds!!

Little Lagoon, worth a stop!

driving up from Denham to Monkey mia, WA we just had to stop for a quick dip in this stunning little lake, it had crystal clear waters but was a bit chilly in the early morning sun!

Walking with dolphins, Monkey Mia

rumour had it that dolphins swim right up to you here, and it was true! every 20 mins or so, the dolphins would swim up and down in the shallows, it was an incredibly beautiful place

Dolphin feeding

this early morning feed was a bit touristy, loads of people hoping to get to feed the dolphins, but they are wild, the females just sometimes come in for a feed, and then they are off again!

31st October 2007

Linda Cederlund
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Cooool
Hey cool pics as ever, i know i already seen these when we met in Thailand, but never tire looking at them. Miss you lots, and i miss Thailand lots too!!! XXXXXXXXXXXXX

31st October 2007

mark
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awesome
christian this looks amazing...ive always wanted to go round australia and to see how you guys have been round it, it looks great. hope your both well at the moment.

1st November 2007

murielle
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Hey, Helen must be happy to be with you in australia ! There are very nice photos with sun !! here it's grey, and raining time !!. I want to be in your place. Big kisses for you.

3rd November 2007

Foltas
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Nicenice...
Looks really nice... very nice pictures looks like postcards. Best regards Foltas and Somphit

6th November 2007

Márcia
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Uau!!
Nice to see you again, boys. What about surfing? Kate, I think you were born to surf. You look great. Sorry my poor english Many kisses to you and Christian. Family waiting for you here again!!

13th November 2007

Sarah and Kev
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Dudes!
Hey guys, just checking out your blog for S America inspiration! Love your Oz blog, brought back lots of happy East Coast memories! xxx

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