Sydney Wildlife World

 

This afternoon, we used up some extra tickets we had for Sydney Wildlife World, which is just a five minute walk from our apartment. Here are a few pictures.

Nelson Bay

 

After the Whiteheads left us, Tanya and I spent the weekend in Nelson Bay shacked up and diving with the Saint George Scuba Club. Despite a leaking drysuit and injured knee, we managed to get a couple of nice dives in, one at the sewage pipe and one at Fly Point.

Here are a few pictures from our dive at the sewage pipe.

Goodbye Dave and Agnes

For the Whitehead's last weekend in Australia, we flew to Broken Hill. From there we rented a car (Mitsubishi Lancer) and drove, rally style, through the outback. We saw Broken Hill (lead and zinc mining town), Silverton (silver mining town and the filming location for Mad Max II), Mutawintji National Park, and White Cliffs (opal mining town, with an underground hotel).

Here are the outback pictures.

The Whiteheads leave for Canada tomorrow. For their last night we went to a great production of Buddy! (The Buddy Holly Story). It was a real toe-tapper.

Valentine's Day Massacre

Kangaroo Boxing from Pat Morin on Vimeo.

Here's a video of some frisky kangaroos Tanya recorded on Valentine's Day during our one day whirlwind tour of Brisbane.

The Whiteheads are here

Dave and Agnes Whitehead showed up at our door last Friday, after a 4 leg, 24+ hour, flight from Sault-Ste-Marie, Ontario, looking surprisingly spry. We let them rest for a day and then took them on a road trip to Jervis Bay, before putting them back on a plane to Darwin. Tanya will meet up with them this weekend in Cairns.

Here are the roadtrip pictures.

Walkabout Park

Last weekend we went to the Australia Wildlife Walkabout Park. We parked, then we walked about. It was wild, but it was also 40C so we gave up and went to the beach instead. Most of the wildlife seemed to consist of spiders anyway.

Here are a few pictures.

Devil's playground

Tasmania from Pat Morin on Vimeo.

Last weekend Tanya and I spent a few days in Tasmania, where we saw seals, penguins, Tasmanian devils, kangaroos, wallabies, potaroos, ostriches, emus, big-belly seahorses, bandicoots, kelp forests, old prisons, and lots of spectacular scenery.

Here are some of the photos.