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!
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Sunset over the Southern Sea north of Kangaroo Island
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Little (or fairy) penguins come up onto Kangaroo Island at night into burrows (they do cross the street!)
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A rare albino kangaroo at a nature park
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Here I am feeding a kangaroo.
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One of the many types of lorikeets in Australia
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A wombat - it's a big as a small pig
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One of many sea lions at a sea lion rookery on Kangaroo Island
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More of the sea lions. Family groups were all over this beach.
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A nighttime picture of a little penguin in its burrow.
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Kind of a neat cave
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Me, sticking my head out of the "remarkable rocks"
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The Kangaroo Island coastline
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A New Zealand fur seal
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Another New Zealand fur seal
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Yet another seal - this was quite a rookery.
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The seals were playing in the water, jumping through the surf, and lounging on the rocks.
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A waterfall
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Sunrise over the Coral Sea by the Great Barrier Reef
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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.
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One of the great deserted Australian beaches
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The rivers and estuaries are loaded with salt water crocodiles - we saw a few during the trip.
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82 degrees, bright sunshine, and no one on this beach!
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A colony of flying foxes
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Rachel and Peter in front of the great Sydney landmarks
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Barry and Laura in front of the same
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Rachel patting an 11 month old koala at the Featherdale Wildlife Park. They smell like cough drops!
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An immature pied cormorant (I love this picture!)
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The family with the koala
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Rachel feeding yet another kangaroo
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The feared Tasmanian Devil
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Rachel in front of the 'three sisters'
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A cockatoo in the wild (these birds are all over Sydney!)
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Kangaroos
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A closer up of a kangaroo
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The laughing kookaburra
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A nice picture of Sydney from the harbor ferry
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The family in front of the opera house
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A great view of the opera house from the harbor ferry
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A darter (type of cormorant)
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An Australian heron (friendly bloke!)
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A beach in Manly, complete with shark netting!
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