Apr '11 - Australia Photo Gallery by Jim & Cynthia at pbase.com

Apr '11 - Australia

We had a marvelous family vacation, visiting Jessica and Adam in Australia!

Ready for the trip	Our "usual" elevator door photo at SFO	Steph and Mark settle in for the 14 hour flight	Jim and Cyn have our comfy seats too
Sunrise in Australia!	Coming in to land at Sydney	Mom embarrases Jess!	On the escarpment overlook
The handsome Jim	Jess and Adam in their apartment	Time for opening gifts	Made by Mark and Steph!
Jess loves the gifties	Mark and Steph also made a "mom" glass	And they made a "dad" glass!	Cyn gave a handmade baby blanket
Jess is showing upcoming baby!!	Shopping in Thirroul	Playing "Ticket to Ride"	Evening card games
The usual breakfast scene	Sulphur-crested cockatoo	Sulphur-crested cockatoos interacting	Cockatoos feeding each other (?!)
Jess and Adam's kitchen	The guest bedroom	Steph and Mark's bed in the living room	Friederike's bed
Mom with her two kids!	Mother, daughter, daughter-in-law	The girls frolick	Mark joins the gang in the surf
Mark (and girls in reflection)	Steph with a silver gull	Tatoos all around!	Steph loves Mark!
Masked lapwings	Lunch when Friederike joins us	Jess is knitting baby items for friends	Cyn is working on vacation!
Out for dinner at Samuel's in Thirroul	Making sandwiches for our hike	Arriving at the Blue Mountains	Jim with the "Three Sisters"
Photos from the canyon overlook	Cool rock cliffs	The gang discusses the hiking plans	Lunch in an old cable car (hiding from the rain)
Out IN the rain!	Not exactly sure of the proper trail ...	Jess and Friederike	Tall ferns along the trail
Jess and Adam, the happy couple!	Steph and Mark, the happy couple!	Cyn and Friederike (the happy couple!)	Steep cliff drop off
Brave Jess	Gum tree	Jess and her sweetie	Signs of the squiggle worms
The gang before the 1,000 step hike down	And we're off!	Another scary overlook	One of the "Three Sisters"
The 1,000 steps are STEEP!	The steps	Some of the steps are really spooky	Lush forest along the steps
The intrepid hikers on the 1,000 steps	Finally reaching the bottom!	View along the trail at the bottom of the 1,000 steps	Half-way to the tram station
Jessica demonstrates how to collect leeches (by STOPPING!)	Mom and daughter	Very wet rainforest	The gang along the rainforest trail
A pretty waterfall along the way	One of the leeches from Jess's pants!	Jess strips to look for more leeches	Getting ready for a drive with Jess
On the drive north to Stanwell Tops	At Stanwell Tops	Posing while hiking	The escarpment cliff at Stanwell Tops
Trying to find our way	Protection from spiders!!	Interesting foliage	Pretty gum trees
Wandering along the road	The road saves us from spiders	Overlooking the ocean	Enjoying the Scarborough Hotel
Happy laughs!	The girls pose before circus class	Jess on the "tissue"	Cyn hanging out
Steph masters the tissue	Jess on the trapeze	Peter pan?	Steph looks like a pro
Mom and Jess	Jess and mom!	Steph looks so relaxed	Jess with a circus colleague
Back home, the boys cook dinner	Another game of "Ticket to Ride"	Mark and Jim and the train station	The girls at the train station
Lunch in Berry	Downtown Berry	Cute building in Berry	Shopping in Berry
Berry signposts	Funky bottle shop in Berry	Funky hotel in Berry	Beers in Berry
Berry train station	Jim at the Berry train station	Jim and Cyn on the way to Cairns	"The kids" on the way to Cairns
Stop for lunch and beer near Cairns	Ferry across the Daintree River	At the Wallu-wurrigga overlook	Welcome to our bungalows
Our Daintree bungalows!	Outside our bungalow	Hanging out in the Daintree bungalow	Jim in our Daintree bungalow
Our special toothbrushes came along	Daintree bungalow	Our breakfast and dinner spot in the Daintree	Meals being cooked, yum!
We took a river cruise ("Solar Whisperer") along the Daintree River	Crocodile along the Daintree River	Wind in the palms	Adam and Jess on the river cruise
Adam and Jess enjoying the river	Snake in the trees along the Daintree	Cyn on the river cruise	The Daintree River
Mark on the river cruise	Jim along the Daintree	Mangroves along the Daintree	A frog on the gangplank!
Boardwalk in the Daintree forest	Waterfall along the boardwalk	Jim enjoying the boardwalk	Jess and mom looking for birds
Cyn and Jess may see a life bird?	Ice cream shop in the Daintree forest	Butterfly at the ice cream shop	Butterfly at the ice cream shp
Flower and bee at the ice cream shop	Lync-Haven restaurant mascot	Jim with the cockatoo at Lync-Haven	Rainbow lorikeet
Strangler fig and Mark along a boardwalk	Looking up through the strangler fig	Round palm trees along the boardwalk	Cyn and Jess enjoying the boardwalk
Lush ferns along the boardwalk	Jim along the boardwalk	Jim's tatoo fits in!	Crazy roots in the rainforest
Butterfly on the boardwalk	Tiny crab along the boardwalk	Cyn enjoys the rainforest	Pretty flora in the rainforest
The kids and spouses look for life birds	Rainforest vines	Australian spider!	Enjoying Myall Beach in the Daintree
Baby on board!!	Interesting notices about crocodiles ...	Mark tries to open a coconut on Myall Beach	The family watching Mark's coconut activities
Warning (and vinegar) for jellies on a Queensland beach	Cyn showing off the blue-colored vinegar provided for jelly stings	Dinner in the Daintree	Playing cards in the Daintree bungalow
Woodland on the road to Chillagoe	Cows along the road	Blue-winged kookaburra	Marble surrounding limestone quarries
A billabong along the road	Mark and Steph at a billabong	Adam and Jess at a billabong	Cow in the road
Warning about cows in the road	Stopping for beer in Almaden (barefoot bartender!)	Woodland and termite mound	Termite mound and whimsical rock graffito
The road to Chillagoe	Woodland along the road to Chillagoe	Butterfly in garden of Chillagoe cabins	Flowers at Chillagoe cabins
Whimsical collections at Chillagoe	Entrance to our cabin in Chillagoe	Relaxing on the porch of our cabin in Chillagoe	Our cabin in Chillagoe
Our cabin in Chillagoe	The pool at Chillagoe cabins	Adam enjoys the pool	Jim enjoys the pool too
Relaxing near the pool	Jess relaxes by the pool	The kitchen at Chillagoe	Local galahs in Chillagoe
Playing pool in the "top bar" in Chillagoe	Pool in the "top bar" in Chillagoe	The Post Office Hotel in Chillagoe displays cow brands	Breakfast by the pool
The road to the limestone caves in Chillagoe	One of the limestone caves in Chillagoe	Jim at the limestone cave entrance overlook	Jim descending into the cave
Steph's hat disappears into the cave	The gang descends into the cave	Jess in the Trezkinn cave	Jess and Cyn in the Trezkinn cave
Trezkinn cave formation	Trezkinn stalactite	Bat in the Trezkinn cave	Trezkinn cave formation
Trezkinn cave formation	Trezkinn cave stalactites	Trezkinn cave stalactites	Trezkinn cave stalactites
Trezkinn cave formation	Sparkly wall in Trezkinn cave	Trezkinn cave stalactites	Adam and Jim in Trezkinn cave
Ceiling of Trezkinn cave	Adam and Jess enjoy Trezkinn cave	Trezkinn cave formation	Trezkinn cave formation
Rocks in Chillagoe	Limestone cliffs in Chillagoe	Limestone cliff looks like a crocodile!	Aboriginal art (100 years old) in Chillagot
Steph and Mark at balanced rock	Jess and Adam at balanced rock	Cyn and Jim at balanced rock	"Curtain fig" in Atherton tablelands
Info on curtain fig tree	Incredible "curtain fig" tree in Atherton tablelands	On the way to our lodge in Yungaburra	Adam at the platypus blind, Yungaburra
Riverwalk in Yungaburra	Australian brush turkey!	Turtle in the river	Turtle face!
A spider along the trail	Muddy feet in Yungaburra	Cairns airport	The Great Barrier Reef
Flying into Sydney	Bringing home a new desk (found on the side of the road)	Useful train station info in Thirroul	Visiting Symbio, a local small zoo
Blue-winged kookaburra	Koala with keeper	Koala looking towards new leaves	Koala looking adorable
Koalas clambering over each other	Koala on top!	Meercat at attention	Meercat looking adorable
Kangaroo	Cyn with kangaroo	Cyn loves the kangas	Mark and Steph wiht kangaroos
Joey on board!	Joey seems to be upside-down	Little roo!	Jim with kangaroos
Handsome Jim	Cute kangaroo	Jim feeds kangaroo	Red panda
Red panda sharing lunch with lorikeets	Red panda	Sumatran tiger	Tasmanian devil
Southern cassowary	Cassowary looking serious	Cassowary looking mean	The cassowary does not like Jim
Stare-down between Jim and cassowary	The kids cooking dinner	Jim making spring rolls	Italian lunch in Sydney
Spider at botanical gardens	"Flying fox" bats in botanical gardens	Bats in botanical gardens	Adorable bat in botanical gardens
Succelents in botanical gardens	Beer break in botanical gardens	Cyn at the Opera House in Sydney	Jim and Adam with the Sydney skyline
Sydney skyline	Sunset over Harbor Bridge	Symphony hall at the Sydney Opera House	Ceiling in Sydney Opera House
Dinner in front of the Opera House	The gang at dinner	On the train on the way home from Sydney	Jess and Adam's apartment
Walking to the beach from Jess and Adam's apartment	Looking back at Jess and Adam's apartment from the beach	Jess and Adam in the waves!	Jess and Adam in a wave!
Jessica the surfer	Jess and her board	Adam and Jess walk home from their beach	Mark on Jess and Adam's porch
The girls come home from the hair salon	Card games!	Jess knitting	Thought we saw a spider

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