Category Archives: Australia

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL!

This page needs no comment,…. but I will do it anyway.  Now officially of the bucket list:  Sydney Bridge at midnight of the New Year!

The hours before (we reserved a nice dinner…)

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and at midnight:

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Visit to see Quokkas

Nanne’s Christmas gift:  idyllic Island, bikes and sunshine!

Did about 40KM, and had time to play on the beach

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Rottnest Island is off the coast of Perth.

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A great Christmas day

Christmas day, it is official, Leendert is taller than Mom! Christmas diner is a blast!

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Christmas beach swim in Perth

O how fun it is at Oom Nanne’s – In Perth people go with Christmas hats to the beach for a swim,.. and a splash

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Art Class – learning Aboriginal painting

A 2 hour aboriginal painting class arranged by Heidi. Great experience wonderful thing to do.  Afternoon was school work followed by the usual swim.

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the Bilboa pool…

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Painting

Today we got to go painting. Not just painting but painting like an aboriginal. We only had three colors. They each represented something. Yellow was sun, red was dirt and white was water.all turned out wonderfully beautiful and still look that way (even though dad had sprayed them to make them prettier and made them a foggy white), yes, the still look WONDERFUL.

Snapper Island – Sailing with (too much?) water…

We sailed to Snapper Island (beautiful) and no one but us.  We did the snorkelling, which had nice corals, but the water was a bit milky (we are soooo spoiled).

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The brochure showed a nice sunset return… but Alicia had more fun!

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where it happened?

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DILO (day in the life of …) in Port Douglas

A regular working day in pictures (Alicia Focussed). School in the apartment, short exit to the pool, visit to the local wildlife habitat, Alicia Skyping with AIS  Vienna. BBQ in the evening. Nice and easy.

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The rest of the family at the Habitat.

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Great Barrier Reef (part 1a)

This just the download of the distance and place travelled…

Garmin to Great Barrier Scuba

This to show what we did….: The boat, pre-scuba, Scuba, Snorkel and (of course) post water-sport!

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School morning and Wildlife afternoon

Good morning in the HWH  (Heidi Worldwide Highschool) followed by a visit to the wildlife Habitat in Port Douglas…. wonderful!

Feeding the Roos:  By Day and by Night!

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Touching the Croc

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