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Outside Queen Victoria Building Sydney |
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Inside Queen Victoria Building Sydney |
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Outside of Sydney Tower |
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View from Sydney Tower |
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Kari and John @ Sydney Tower |
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View from Sydney Tower |
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View from Sydney Tower |
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John @ Sydney Tower |
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View from Sydney Tower |
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View from Sydney Tower |
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View from Sydney Tower |
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Platypus @ Sydney Aquarium |
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Crocodile @ Sydney Aquarium |
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Green Tree Frog @ Sydney Aquarium |
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Crazy looking giant lobsters @ Sydney Aquarium |
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Crazy looking giant lobsters @ Sydney Aquarium |
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Jellyfish |
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Jellyfish |
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Jellyfish |
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Seahorse |
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Nurse Shark |
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Sea Turtle |
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Nurse Shark |
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Sting Ray |
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A giant aquarium full of various seal life |
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A giant aquarium full of various seal life |
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The whole group enjoying a frosty pint @ the bar in the harbor |
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A wombat |
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They are cool they are 70 pound giant rodents |
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There posterior is made mostly of bone and cartilage and they poop square turds |
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John with a snake @ Featherdale Zoo |
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Kangaroo |
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Kangaroo with a baby in its pouch |
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Kangaroo with a baby in its pouch |
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Kangaroos chilling in there hut |
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Kangaroo eating an ice cream cone |
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Kangaroo pondering the space time continuum |
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Evil criminal Kangaroos with laser beam eyes |
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A giant freaky looking bird. Gross! |
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Patsy and Gary with a Koala |
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Emily with a Koala |
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Patsy and Gary with a Koala |
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John and Kari with a Koala |
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John and Kari with a Koala he just sneezed |
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Koala wishing he could climb higher |
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Brent with a Koala |
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John with a Koala |
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Koala in a tree |
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Koalas in a tree they make this crazy whooping sound |
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Kangaroo face closeup |
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Kangaroos |
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John petting a Kangaroo |
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Kari about to feed a Kangaroo |
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John and Brent with a Kangaroo |
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Kangaroo close up |
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Tasmanian Devil they are nasty looking up close |
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They don't like to breed in captivity and 60% of population has died of face cancer |
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Penguins |
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Giant Bats. They were labeled as Flying Foxes but I know a giant vampire bat when I see one |
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Dingo hunting for babies |
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Sleepy Dingo. Dingo's don't bark |
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Albino Kangaroos |
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Albino Peacock |
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Crichy its a Croc! |
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Echidna's kinda look like Porcupine |
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They are the only other member of monotreme family (other is platypus) mammals that lay eggs |
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View from a scenic overlook @ the Blue Mountains |
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View from a scenic overlook @ the Blue Mountains |
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Kari and John @ Blue Mountains |
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Gary and Patsty @ Blue Mountains |
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Cable Car across the valley @ Blue Mountains. The bottom of car was glass |
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Cable Car across the valley @ Blue Mountains |
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Cable Car across the valley @ Blue Mountains |
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Cable Car ride back up from Rain Forest |
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Cable Car ride back up from Rain Forest |
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Cable Car ride back up from Rain Forest |
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Another Scenic overlook |
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Olymipic Stadium Sydney Summer Games 2000 |
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There were 60000 volunteers for the Sydney Games this was a monument to them |
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Brent and John looking awesome |
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Wait I thought they looked awesome in the last picture. This one is even better |
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Our relative Mick Dulle helped out |
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Boat ride back back to Sydney this is the Sydney Harbor Bridge |
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Sydney Oprah house by water |
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Sydney skyline by water |
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Funny sign #1. I asked a dude he said there was an old people home in the area |
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Funny sign #2. We did not hang out here long |
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View of Oprah House from footpath on Harbor Bridge |
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Looking up at the bridge |
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Bridge footing tower |
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View of Oprah House from footpath on Harbor Bridge |
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Hilarious sign #3. Made me giggle and think of Randy Ferry |
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Sydney Oprah House |
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Sydney Bay Bridge (Oprah House is behind me) |
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Ferrari dealership we decided not to purchase shipping costs are horrible. |
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Sydney Bay Bridge there are tours you take and you walk over the top of the bridge. |
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Sydney Tower |
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Sydney Oprah House |
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Sydney Bay Bridge and Gary |
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Ben, Danielle, Patsy, Brent, Kari, Emily, Ellen, Evan |
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Kari in front of Sydney Opera House |
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This was considered art it was in the center of a round-about |
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Funny sign #3. I guess the art work confuses drivers |
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Sydney Opera House I was on a bike tour |
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Sydney Bay Bridge |
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The second story window was where a scene from Finding Nemo was filmed |
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A fossilized Pliosaur made partially from Opals |
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Plaque under the Plisosaur |
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Funny sign #4. I don't know what it means |
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A cool park we walked through |
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Me in the park |
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We are a long way from home. Thats 9958 miles to New York |
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Shortcut through an apartment area with a decent view |
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Guess this gives you an idea of what kind of neighborhood it was |
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Harry's Pies sells meat pies (delicious). This was the location where the first cart opened in 1940s. Lots of famous people have been there |
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Funny sign #4. Spiked drinks its a problem |
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Funny sign #5. Not sure what it meant the street was not called New Zebra |
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An aboriginal gentlemen playing the Didgeridoo for Kari |
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This is one of the oldest bars in Sydney. It has a secret tunnel in the basement to the harbor |
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This guy was cool. His name is James he was from Ireland oringally but has lived in Australia for years |
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This was our place in Surfers Paradise |
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Walking the beach skyline of SP in view |
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Pacific Ocean |
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Pacific Ocean at night |
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Walkway to thje ocean from our place (it was right on the beach) |
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Palm trees |
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View from our balcony |
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View from our balcony |
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SP skyline |
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SP skyline with middle aged woman |
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This building is called the Q1. It is the tallest residential sky scrapper in the world |
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We moved to Coolangatta this is the view from our balcony |
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View from our balcony |
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Me on the balcony |
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Kari @ the beach |
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Funny sign #6. Australians need reminders not to drink too much |
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Beach in Coolangatta the skyline in the distance is Surfers Paradise |
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Kari, Evan and Brent at the Coolangata Hotel |
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Rocky beach |
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Rocky beach |
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Winery trip day this is the first winery we stopped at |
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Sheep @ the winery |
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Grap vines @ Mt Nathan these ones are just for show. The actual vineyard is much larger |
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Aussie vineyard. They had the coolest looking tasting room |
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Lounge area @ the Aussie vineyard |
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View of the ocean on the New South Wales side of Coolangata |
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Kari and I were on a bike ride |
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Funny Sign #7. In Queensland they net the beaches for sharks. In NSW they do not this was a sign warning you will probably die at this beach. |
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Shows the minimum size for various fish. Notice it says Great White Sharks are endangered and if you catch one you have to release |
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Pelicans |
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Dolphin Adventure ship out in Moreton Bay |
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Me and Kari looking good |
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Too bad there was water on the lense really great picture otherwise |
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Aha we are at sea and I am a god at sea |
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View of the shipwrecks off of Moreton Island |
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These ships were towed and sunk here intentionally to create and artificial reef |
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This island was all sand. This sand dune is actually 10 stories high. Gary and I climbed it |
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Most of these ships have been there since the 1960s |
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Patsy on a good hair day. The guy with the mike was one of the tour guides named James. Really cool guy |
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Wrecks |
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More wrecks there are 15 in total |
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They called this boomnetting. They drag a rope net behind the boat and you go for a ride |
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Gary and I hanging on for dear life while James shows off |
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Patsy and me snorkeling around the wrecks |
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Emily, Patsy, Kari and I |
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Just getting done snorkeling the water was super clear and nice |