Alitia & Quentins Australian Tour

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To All Our Family and Friends

Quentin and I finally left 102 Canning Hwy, South Perth, Western Australia on the 10th of February, 2010! We left with a plethora of mixed emotions; excitement, sadness, happiness, elation, exhilaration, grief etc etc. Its probably one of the hardest things we have done, leaving our families especially our daughters as we are very close to them. On the other side, what a fantastic country we reside in as we are just starting to find out.

Hope you enjoy our blog and we will make sure all of our pics are interesting and not too boring.

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Photos

Leaving 102 Canning Hwy, Perth
OMG we are finally leaving??

Leaving 102
OMG we have packed everything except the kitchen sink :-)

Ceduna
Quentin setting up the Roof Top Tent.
My gorgeous friend Tina made us the best Italian Meat Balls (made with love), we just added pasta. I had the biggest praying mantis on my leg......I think that is supposed to be good luck.........mmmmm

Ceduna
What a fantastic view.......just awesome.

Holbrook (just North of Albury)
Here tis.....................the Chariot and the Caravan. The caravan is exactly what we expected and guess what Quentin is officially related to Bill McRae (the guy we purchased it off). How bizarre

Ettamogoh Pub just out of Albury
The Ettamogah Pub was the inspiration of Maynard's cartoons and a flash of genius by Lindsay Cooper that saw the creation of Australia's most famous pub. Does anybody remember the Ettamogah Cartoon? There are others in Sydney and the Sunshine Coast in QLD.

Miss Piggy
No Fred, not me...miss piggy is on the my right hand side. Isn't she beauuuuuutifulllll. This was taken in a little shop in Beechworth (Ned Kelly high country in Victoria)

Glen Wheatley Holiday Retreat
There is where Glen Wheatley had a little holiday. located in Beechworth

Beechworth Courthouse
This is where Ned Kelly was trialled for murder. They could not get a proper jury of 12 so they sent him off to Melbourne to be sentenced.

Beechworth Jail
Ned Kelly spent quite a few weeks here waiting for the magistrate to arrive, this could take a few months. There were normally 20-30 men in the jail cell which was approx. 3x4 mtrs. The men were on the left and the women on the right hand side. Neds Mum and sister Kate (just a baby)were locked up for a few weeks. The mortar between the granite building blocks was extremely thin, this was to stop prisoners from digging out the mortar ,pulling the large blocks out and escaping.

Butterfly in Chiltern Victoria
I love this pic

Ye Old Post Box in Chiltern Victoria
Check this out folks

Glenrowan
This is where the Ned Kelly shoot out happened

The Glenrowan Inn owned by Ann Jones
This is where the Inn stood and a shoot out took place between here and the railway station.

Interesting Piano
Check out this piano.....20c is inserted to play 6 songs and when the songs play, the leadlight lights up........................I thought it was pretty cool.

The Gang Gang Cockatoo
Jacqui this pic is for you. We stayed at the Glenrowan Tourist Park and the owner stated this was a very rare bird and is a threatened species. There is a family of 6 here and there have been visitors from the Melbourne University to study and take pictures.

Comments

[Fred]

It works
Well there ya go. Working just fine now so start bloggin. :)

[Alitia]

Thanks Freddie :-)

[Alitia]

More wildlife to come
Hi Jac Great to hear from you and thanks for taking the time to look at our blog. Just going to load up some more pics and of course I have more wildlife photos for you. How was Bali, Deb said you stayed at the Niksoma and really enjoyed it. Its a lovely hotel. We are still in Tasmania and have another 3 weeks to go, its an amazing place geographically, great wildlife and of course food and wine heaven. Q and I have been cycling, walking climbing mountains, running along beaches most days, we are feeling so fantastic, its the best thing we have ever done and I cannot recommend it enough. Take care bird woman and hope you are getting a few laughs at work. How is Sharon working out?? Do I need to come back HAHA