Category Archives: Australia

Sydney, Australia

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After three weeks of traveling down the coast of Australia, we made it to Sydney.  It felt a bit surreal, standing under the shadows of the iconic Sydney Opera House.  For so many years I have seen photos of this architectural masterpiece but never imagined I would be there in person.  The sun just barely below the arched roof shells gave it a cathedral type appearance.

The harbor bridge to Sydney.

The opera house.

Harbor bridge from behind the Opera House.

The water front.

Reflections looking up at the back of the Opera House.  Can you find Willie, Wylie and Aimee?

The Botanical Gardens just outside of the Opera House.

View from the Botanical Gardens.

The Art Museum.

Sydney at night.

 

More Billagong Koala Park, Australia

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Wylie and spent a long  time feeding our corn to the wallabies.

I kissed one while it was eating. I bet the wallabies get kissed very often.

This wallaby had a very funny looking joey in its pouch, it wasn’t very fluffy but still very cute.

Dad filling up the wallabies hungry bellies.

Giving the last of our food away. It was hard saying goodbye to them. I think we will see them again though, hopefully in our house 🙂 – Aimee

Billagong Koala Park, Australia

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On May 13th we decieded to go stop by the Billabong Koala Park hoping to see all the animals on our check list for Australia and pet some koalas. Little did we know we would get to feed wallabies, wallaroos, and kangaroos and  also pet dingos. – Aimee

 

Me petting a super fluffy koala. This was was one of the only ones that was lazy enough to let the zoo keeper pull him off his tree.

 

We love the koalas…

And the dingos

We even got to pet them.

Aimee’s Birthday, Crescent Head, Australia

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Excerpt from my journal, May 12th

 

We celebrated Aimee’s Birthday in today in Crescent Head, Australia. My “baby” turned 13 years old.  Over the past week I have not been able to take my eyes off of her.  I just stare in awe at her beauty and maturity.  She has grown into an amazing young lady.  I feel spoiled to have had her all to myself these past months.   Her social intelligence far exceeds her years. She sees the world through creative eyes and has brought more color into my world than I could have ever imagined.  She makes me laugh with her insight and one-liners.  She lightens the serious side of me. She is adventurous and easy going.  She is beauty. 

Crescent Head is a pretty sleepy town with not much to do.  We did our best at making the day special.  Aimee woke to a birthday donut.

We had a picnic on the beach.

She got the fluffy mutton that she fell in love with in New Zealand.

We played pin the nose on the koala,

and limbo.

We shared a yummy chocolate birthday cake.  This time I had matches to light the candles!

Willie’s Birthday!

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On May 4th we celebrated Willie’s Birthday in Noosaville, Australia.  Surfing, presents, cake, Thai food, and a movie.

Aimee and I decorated the apartment.

We couldn’t light the candles on the birthday cake because our matches were confiscated at the airport in Fiji.

A new t-shirt and visor.