Here are some photographs of my family and I in Australia in 2004.  We first went to Kangaroo Island off the South Central coast, then to Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef, and finally to Sydney.  Enjoy!

 

Sunset over the Southern Sea north of Kangaroo Island

Little (or fairy) penguins come up onto Kangaroo Island at night into burrows (they do cross the street!)

A rare albino kangaroo at a nature park

Here I am feeding a kangaroo.

One of the many types of lorikeets in Australia

A wombat - it's a big as a small pig

One of many sea lions at a sea lion rookery on Kangaroo Island

More of the sea lions. Family groups were all over this beach.

A nighttime picture of a little penguin in its burrow.

Kind of a neat cave

Me, sticking my head out of the "remarkable rocks"

The Kangaroo Island coastline

A New Zealand fur seal

Another New Zealand fur seal

Yet another seal - this was quite a rookery.

The seals were playing in the water, jumping through the surf, and lounging on the rocks.

A waterfall

Sunrise over the Coral Sea by the Great Barrier Reef

This is one of approximately 1500 Cassowarys in the wild. This chick wandered up to us during a bush walk; its Dad was calling for it from the bush.

One of the great deserted Australian beaches

The rivers and estuaries are loaded with salt water crocodiles - we saw a few during the trip.

82 degrees, bright sunshine, and no one on this beach!

A colony of flying foxes

Rachel and Peter in front of the great Sydney landmarks

Barry and Laura in front of the same

Rachel patting an 11 month old koala at the Featherdale Wildlife Park. They smell like cough drops!

An immature pied cormorant (I love this picture!)

The family with the koala

Rachel feeding yet another kangaroo

The feared Tasmanian Devil

Rachel in front of the 'three sisters'

A cockatoo in the wild (these birds are all over Sydney!)

Kangaroos

A closer up of a kangaroo

The laughing kookaburra

A nice picture of Sydney from the harbor ferry

The family in front of the opera house

A great view of the opera house from the harbor ferry

A darter (type of cormorant)

An Australian heron (friendly bloke!)

A beach in Manly, complete with shark netting!