Australia - October 2003

In, Around and Above Sydney
Off to Ayers Rock
Lizard Island
Cairns, and Daintree Rain Forest
Back to Sydney

In, Around and Above Sydney

In and around Sydney

Our hotel, and the bridge

View from our room

Site where MI2 was filmed

Prehistoric site

Cockatiel - from our hotel room window

Clouds moving in

Three of the Seven Sisters

Posing

Helicopter Tour...

Kathy, David and Marie in front of the Helicopter

Sydney Habour, Bridge, and Opera House

Aussie Stadium and Sydney Cricket Ground

Back to the heliport

 

Off to Ayers Rock

Views from Longitude 131

Interior of one of our "tents"

Kathy, David and Marie enjoying some post-orientation cocktails

View from our tents

Ayers Rock from Longitude 131

Day trip to Ayers Rock

Ayers Rock up close

Ayers Rock near sunset

View from Ayers Rock looking towards Longitude 131

Day Trip to Aboriginal site

Pitstop about half way along the two-hour drive

View of the other Rock

Endless dirt roads in the Outback

A lizard pretending to be flattened

Initial meeting spot at the Aboriginal site

 

Lizard Island

Around the resort

Around the resort

Another view of the grounds

One of the lizard that give the island its name

The activities hut

The plane that took us to and from the island

A view of the resort's beach

Another of the many beaches on the island

The resort's dining room

Sunset of tropical paradise (required picture)

 

Dive Day...

Suiting up

The dive boat

Parrot Fish on the reef

A Potato Cod

Through the tunnel

White-Tipped Reef Shark

Floating like an amateur

Posing with my dive instructor

 

Cairns, and Daintree Rain Forest

Views of the Daintree Rainforest...

The Daintree River

A freshwater crocodile

 

Back to Sydney

A view of Manly Beach

Gulls at Manly

Mine-mine, mine

View from our hotel the last couple of nights in Sydney