July and August 2006 Australia and New Zealand photos by Jim and Rose

Jim.Cahalan@iup.edu http://www.english.iup.edu/jcahalan

These photos are in chronological order (Australia 7-18 to 8-1, New Zealand 8-3 to 8-5). Click on these links right here to Australia and New Zealand to see maps of exactly where we were in each country. Then click on each dated caption below for a bigger, far better view of each photo, fuller captions, and some occasional brief quoted excerpts from Jim’s journal.

7-18 Arriving at Sydney

7-18 Coogee Bay beach

7-18 Coogee bird

7-19 Sydney Aquarium fish

7-19 Penguin at Aquarium

7-19 Shark at Aquarium

7-19 Shark stares down Jim

7-19 Rose in shark tunnel

7-19 in downtown Sydney

7-19 Rose and good Coogee dog

7-20 Sydney Bridge Climb wait

7-20 Bridge over Opera House

7-20 down Bridge to downtown

7-20 Sydney skyline

7-20 Peacock at Sydney Zoo

7-20 echidna at zoo

7-20 Zoo  leopard seal

7-20 Zoo view panoramic

7-20 Zoo view with Jim

7-20 Zoo view with Rose

7-20 Zoo wallaby

7-20 Zoo wallaby

7-20 Zoo with Jim and Rose

7-20 Wombat at zoo

7-21 At Wattamolla, Royal National Park

7-21 Royal National Park

7-21 Camera photographing...

7-21 ... a Kookaburra !

7-21 Royal Kookaburra close up

7-21 Jim, Royal National Park

7-21 Rose on high at Royal

7-31 On her Royal throne

7-21 Wattamolla cove, Royal

7-21 Wattamolla pounding surf

7-21 Wattamolla Rose Rock

7-21 Wattamolla Royal beach

7-21 Face and rock, Wattamolla

7-21 Little rock holds up big ones

7-21 Wattamolla Lagoon

7-21 Wattamolla cube rocks

7-21 Wattamolla Lagoon beach

7-21 Wattamolla Lagoon

7-22 Arienne Cahalan & Co.

7-23 Blue Mts. panorama

7-23 Blue Mts. clouds below

7-23 Blue Mts. clouds above

7-23 From The Three Sisters

7-23 Atop The Three Sisters

7-23 Blue Mountains tree

7-23 Blue Mts. waterfall

7-23 "Lea" again beside our hotel

7-24 Spinning above Outback

7-25 Katherine River cruise

7-25 Beautiful Katherine Gorge

7-25 Our cruise guide

7-25 Top of first Gorge

7-25 Rugged Gorge walls

7-25 Inner Katherine Gorge

7-25 Jim swims Katherine River

7-25 Sheer canyon wall

7-25 Freshwater Croc by shore

7-25 Gorge looking south

7-25 Gorge looking north

7-25 Nitmiluk National Park

7-25 Nitmiluk near Katherine

7-25 Nitmiluk above the Gorge

7-25 Jim on loop hike

7-25 Nitmiluk tree bark

7-25 Nitmiluk wallaby

7-25 near Nit. campground

7-25 Wallaby at dusk

7-26 Kakadu National Park

7-26 Kakadu flowers

7-26 Our rental car

7-26 A word to the stupid

7-26 Kakadu termite mounds

7-26 Kakadu jabaru

7-26 Yellow Waters cruise

7-26 Snakeneck darter fish

7-26 Yellow Waters cruise croc

7-26 Kakadu Yellow Waters cruise

7-27 Another sign for the stupid

7-27 View toward Arnheim Plateau

7-27 Kakadu termit mounds

7-27 Jabara Darwin band

7-27 Aboriginal musicians

7-27 Thursday Darwin markets

7-27 17-feet-long "Sweetheart"

7-27 At Darwin Botanical Gardens

7-27 Rose photographing...

7-27 ...and this was that photo

7-27 Darwin flower 2

7-27 Darwin flower 3

7-27 Darwin flower 4

7-27 Darwin sunset

7-28 Palm Cove, Scout's Cap 1

7-28 Palm Cove, Scout's Cap 2

7-29 Reef trip from Cairns

7-29 Outward bound to reef

7-29 Our Great Barrier Reef boat

7-29 Michaelmas Cay panoramic

7-29 Approaching Michaelmas beach

7-29 Jim snorkeling Cay

7-29 Underwater reef fish

7-29 Michaelmas reef underwater

7-29 Underwater reef fish

7-29 Great Barrier Reef

7-29 Underwater reef close up

7-29 Semi-sub reef boat

7-29 Reef from semi-sub

7-29 Michaelmas reef from boat

7-29 Heading back to Cairns

7-29 Admiring mountains and sea

7-29 Approaching Cairns harbor

7-29 End of great reef trip

7-30 Double Island, Palm Cove

7-31 Barron Falls from Skyrail

7-31 At Kuranda Wildlife

7-31 Birds in Kuranda Wildlife

7-31 Will you be my valentine?

7-31 A visitor becomes perch

7-31 A beauty from above

7-31 And the same from below

7-31 A beauty perched on high

7-31 Kuranda butterfly

7-31 Don't touch the koala...

7-31 ...So Rose did just that !

7-31 Kuranda freshwater crocs

7-31 Kuranda tandem swans

Same--but really 8-3, Rotorua, NZ!

7-31 Tamed Kuranda wallaby

7-31 ...tamed by feeders like me !,

7-31 Kuranda kangaroos

7-31 Skyrail back to Cairns

7-31 Mountains from Skyrail

7-31 Skyrail zooms back down

8-1 Palm Cove, north of Cairns