Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania - Part 2
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Albany	Bagpiper at Albany There was also a big stack of wood chips on the dock.  The next morning, I was on the deck of the ship and commented to the Australian standing beside me that the "piper was interesting".  He proceeded to tell me that "Piper is made from the wood chips they have stacked there..."	Torndirrup National Park	Torndirrup National Park
Torndirrup National Park	Torndirrup National Park	Torndirrup National Park	Whale World
Whale World	Whale World Tasmanian Devil - Looks like a small puppy dog...	Whale World Tasmanian Devil	Whale World Plant
Whale World Plant	Whale World	"Dog Rock" in Albany	Main street in Albany
Sunrise in Adelaide	Adelaide	Sculpture in Rundle Mall in Adelaide	Glenelg
Glenelg	Glenelg	Glenelg	Totally unmarked plane that made two passes over our ship while it was out to sea.  Creepy... (Probably a pirate reconnaissance plane?  :-)  )
Jellyfish in Melborne harbor	Burnie Tasmania port	Burnie Tasmania port	Wild Cockatoo inTasmania
Tasmania	Tasmania	Wing's Wildlife Park	Wing's Wildlife Park Tasmanian Devil - really cute.
Wing's Wildlife Park Tasmania Devil - really ferocious!	Wing's Wildlife Park Bone-crunching meal for Tasmanian Devils	Wing's Wildlife Park Eagle	Wing's Wildlife Park Eagle
Wing's Wildlife Park Ferret (Imported animal)	Wing's Wildlife Park Koala	Wing's Wildlife Park Friendly goat - begging...	Wing's Wildlife Park Black Swan
Wing's Wildlife Park Well fed Tasmanian Devils	Wing's Wildlife Park Kangaroo	Wing's Wildlife Park Tasmanian Devil skulls.  Note teeth...	War memorial
Penguin, Tasmania	Hobart, Tasmania	Hobart, Tasmania	Hobart, Tasmania
Hobart, Tasmania	Hobart, Tasmania The "Steve Irwin".  Tries to prevent whaling...	Hobart, Tasmania	Hobart, Tasmania
Hobart, Tasmania The "Steve Irwin".	Hobart, Tasmania Sand bars	Tasmanian Devil crossing...	Outside of Hobart Tasmania, Getting ready for 4-hour trip in a small boat.
Fur Seals from small boat	Fur Seals from small boat	Fur Seals from small boat	Fur Seals from small boat
Fur Seals from small boat	Fur Seals from small boat	Fur Seals from small boat	Fur Seals from small boat
View from small boat	Boat just like the one we were in.	View from small boat	View from small boat
View from small boat	View from small boat	View from small boat	View from small boat
View from small boat	Susan liked the small boat - especially the bone jarring crashes into the 8 foot troughs that were occurring before we entered calmer water.  Howard was not as thrilled...	Happy...	Company running the small boats.
Tasman Bridge.  Some years ago, a ship hit the bridge and dropped a span.  People were killed.  The captain made himself rather unpopular when he said "I've hit bridges before and none of them fell down!"	Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World
Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World
Sydney Wildlife World Parrots	Sydney Wildlife World Cormorant	Sydney Wildlife World Parrots and big pigeon	Sydney Wildlife World
Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World
Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World Warning to aborigines.  They apparently have a problem when confronted with recordings of people who are dead.  (Probably makes it difficult to teach them history?  I wonder if they are willing to view a recording of Winston Churchill for example?)  I am always puzzled by such things...	Sydney Wildlife World Really green frogs!	Sydney Wildlife World Cassowary
Sydney Wildlife World Cassowary	Sydney Wildlife World Cassowarys are dangerous!	Sydney Wildlife World	Sydney Wildlife World
Sydney Wildlife World Kookaburra	Sydney Wildlife World Koalas	Airport at Ayres Rock	Ayres Rock
Near Ayres Rock	Ayres Rock Hotel Registration	Kata Tjuta	Kata Tjuta
Kata Tjuta	Ayres Rock.  Fly protection.  Lots of little flys wanting moisture supposedly.	Early Morning at Ayres Rock	Ayres Rock
People climbing Ayres Rock.  Reflections from bus window.  Bus did not stop there...	Ayres Rock	Kata Tjuta	Kata Tjuta Valley of the Winds Walk
Kata Tjuta Valley of the Winds Walk	Kata Tjuta Valley of the Winds Walk	Kata Tjuta Valley of the Winds Walk	Kata Tjuta Valley of the Winds Walk
Kata Tjuta	Near Kata Tjuta	Ayres Rock	Desert plants
Wild Birds	Weird plant near hotel	Weird plant near hotel	Weird plant near hotel
Weird plant near hotel	Desert plants	Ayres rock	Kata Tjuta
Kata Tjuta Hike	On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail
On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail
On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail Can you see the flies on me? Took netting off for photo...	On Kata Tjuta trail
On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail	On Kata Tjuta trail Place that was steep and rather dangerous in my opinion...	Wild camel
Wild camel	Wild camel	Kata Tjuta	Sunset in the Outback
On the road to Kings Canyon	On the road to Kings Canyon	On the road to Kings Canyon	On the road to Kings Canyon
On the road to Kings Canyon Bus transfer facility (Kings Canyon versus Alice Springs.)  You're looking at the entire facility...  :-)	On the road to Kings Canyon	On the road to Kings Canyon	On the road to Kings Canyon I wondered if a "floodway" was the road you were supposed to take during a flood?  Finally figured out that it marks where the water crosses the road.  (Here in Arizona, we say "Dip - Do not cross when flooded")
On the road to Kings Canyon	On the road to Kings Canyon	Kings Canyon Area	Kings Canyon Area
Kings Canyon Area They say these plants were accidentally imported with the camels.  They say the fruit tastes like gasoline.	Kings Canyon Area	Kings Canyon Area Back porch of our roon	Kings Canyon Area near sunset
Kings Canyon Area Moon	Kings Canyon Area Sunset	Kings Canyon Area Southern Cross and Alpha Centauri. The nearest star to the sun - 4.4 light-years away - That's just 5.8 trillion miles away...   (bright star near bottom of sky.) Actually, Alpha Centauri and Proxima Centauri are a double-star system.  So Proxima is a tiny bit closer but not by much.  Proxima is much dimmer than Alpha.	Kings Canyon Area
Kings Canyon Area	Kings Canyon Area	Kings Canyon Area	Kings Canyon Area
Kings Canyon Area	Kings Canyon Area	In Kings Canyon	In Kings Canyon
In Kings Canyon	In Kings Canyon	In Kings Canyon	Kings Canyon Area Red-Tailed Cockatoos
Kings Canyon Area Red-Tailed Cockatoos	Kings Canyon Area
Its not a pine cone but it is something like one.	The road to Alice Springs	The road to Alice Springs	The road to Alice Springs
The road to Alice Springs A "Road Train".  We have truckers songs in the US about "18 wheelers", trucks with 18 wheels.  To paraphrase Crocodile Dundee "Tha's not a truck, THIS is a truck."  This one only has 62 wheels!  Count-em!  Some have more!	The road to Alice Springs	The road to Alice Springs	The road to Alice Springs
In Alice Springs Looks like a Manzanita tree but totally unrelated	In Alice Springs	In Alice Springs	In Alice Springs
In Alice Springs	In Alice Springs Main shopping area	In Alice Springs All internet and phone service went down!  They said it happened a year or two ago too...	In Alice Springs All internet and phone service went down!  They said it happened a year or two ago too...
In Alice Springs Main shopping area - looking the other way...	In Alice Springs Like Arizona, they have lots of bridges over dry river beds...	The Todd River Bridge in Alice Springs - Rush Hour...