Australia Continued ... Too Many Stories to Tell!

Wow we’ve been back for over a week now and I still have so many pics to show you. I think I started getting some carpel tunnel on my snapping finger (sorry to be such a winjer). I noticed I have less and less pics as the trip wore on. Rest assured, however, that Alyson is sitting on a motherload of something like 1000 pictures. I’m sure they’re all coarkers.

For now, we have some lovely pics of our visit to Phillip Island with A’s aunt Honor and Harold. We rented a car for the drive which gave me a chance to reacquaint myself with the left side of the road. Only got honked at once, I’m proud to say. Honor and Harold introduced us to their friend Patricia who’s been living on the island for ~50years! She ended up giving us a nice tour of the place. There was a bit of excitement in the Koala park. Two of the Koala’s got in a scrap while we were there. It was a bit freaky as they kept swiping at each other without falling off. Much to the horror of the other patrons, good ol’ Patricia walked right up to the base of the tree and started whacking it with a stick to make them stop. When the other folks started admonishing her, she basically told ‘em off. She’s been on the island so long it almost feels like it’s her island. She can remember doing that when the Koalas would go at it in her own back yard!

There’s too many stories to tell about our trip to Australia. Maybe Alyson can talk about the Penguins and our fun trip to see the home of CJ Dennis up near Toolangi. Of course there was more visiting friends and family. Walking around Melbourne was a trip due to the Commonwealth Games. They had a very cool installation of floating fish on the Yarra. We managed at one point to get up to a nature reserve up north to see all the freaky native animals. For now here’s the rest of my pics. When A finishes her thesis we can go through hers to post here as well. Thanks to all of the clan for a fun 2 weeks (even if it was a bit Melbourne centric ;->).


Day 6 Pics (Wandering around Melbourne, Hanging with Emma and Jol)
Day 7 Pics (Visiting Phillip Island with Honor, Harold and of course Patricia!)
Day 8 Pics (Singing Gardens, Rainforest Walk)
Day 9-10 Pics (Last days, Healesville Sanctuary)

That'll be all for a while, but there will be more I'm sure. If you want to see the earlier pics, scrole down to the earlier posts.

-E