I had the fortune of spending 3 weeks in Australia and New Zealand
during February. Which in addition to being a great place to be on its
own, has the distinct advantage of being a lot warmer than Chicago.
Since a picture is worth a thousand words. And a video is about 30
frames per second, here's about 18 million words worth of vacation...
The journey begins. Wherein, Christine reveals her to run the 2010 Chicago marathon. Apparently, my insanity is contagious
Aussie Friends and a bit of Sea Cave exploring at low tide:
12 apostles. Not the biblical kind. The ... big random rock formation in the ocean kind. Actually, they were originally called the Sow and Piglets, but the tourism board didn't think that sounded as distinguished:
Walking around Melbourne with our dear friends Andy and Martine. Lamenting the obvious lack of Kangaroos:
Platypii aren't very rare, but they are rarely seen in captivity. Since they are nocturnal and a little shy, this was a real treat. This particular platypus was pretty fat. We dubbed him fatypus.
The Melbourne botanic gardens are really beautiful. They got some big frickn' trees there. Like LOTR Big Frickn' trees. The city isn't that old. Maybe 150 years of actually being a city, and this garden goes back right to the beginning of it. It's amazing that this city is so big and has such incredible infrastructure. Humans can do a lot in a 150 years.
We went to this really awesome open air nature reserve. We finally got up close and personal with some Joeys. Sadly there were no Chandler or Rosses, but ther were some other friends... wombats and emus
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