Australia
After the .com boom and bust of early 2000, we spent almost a year in Australia - with stops in the Cook Islands and New Zealand on the way. It was a trip of a lifetime - we will keep going back to this incredible place, most recently Matt & Eloïse in 2022.
Arriving in Sydney
That magnificent Sydney Harbor Bridge
And other new friends..
Sydney Zoo
Bondi Beach
Floods, freezing weather and transportation strikes in Sydney .. but the beaches are beautiful.
Heading north to Port Douglas
A new wallaby friend in Karunda, Cairnes ..
Until there is the real thing, we have this one ..
The whole reason for the trip, right here. A lifetime obsession with koalas.
Not fake ..
Can't get enough! Karunda Koala Gardens
More beaches ...
Always cards ..
Karunda Railway
Rats and snakes with brekkie ...
Gondola to the rainforest
Not the Broadway play ...
Great Barrier Reef beauty
No platypus sightings, just these two in far north Queensland rainforest