An Extremely Weird Slug

An Australian Tradition

Every two years the Brisbane city council arranges to collect large items such as used appliances from people's homes. So everyone puts out an astonishing variety of miscellaneous and improbable items over the two week period. Then they go around picking up items from other people's piles and bring them home. Very interesting. Above is our pile and a shot of the desk chair after someone added it to their pickup truck pile.

Many Moths, Butterflies and Caterpillars Around the House

Raven Loves to Sit in Shoes

Backyard Birds - LOTS of Color!

Large Spider Guards Our Front Door

Zamboni Keeps an Eye on Things

Birding Lockyear Valley After Rains

It has been raining a lot so we went birding today in the Lockyear Valley to see if we could find any good birds. It was wonderful to see so much water and see everything so green. Saw lots of birds and even found a wild koala! The small birds on the ground above are cockatiels, which you often see in pet shops.

Sophie the Snake Leaves her Calling Card

Today we found this shed snakes skin in the rafters of our porch. We thnk Sophie has left her calling card!

Visit to Barossa Valley, South Australia

We decided to take a trip to the Barossa Valley while in Adelaide as we'd never been there. We took the fantastic "taste the Barossa" tour which we would highly recommend!





Each vineyard was very unique, and the wines were all amazing!





Midway through the day we had a lovely lunch at the Peter Lehmann vineyard, which had my favorite wines of the day (although we tasted an excellent port at Langmeil vineyards, as in the photo below).

Trip to Adelaide

Tim had a conference in Adelaide, so I flew down to join him. We stayed in an amazing hotel in Glenelg, with spectacular views (see above). We did lots of cool things, including a visit to the Barossa, but in Adelaide the best thing we did was visit the natural history museum and see the great exhibit of Australian Wildlife (see below). A really well-thought out exhibit.

I LOVE OUR NEW CAMERA!

Visit to Fleays Wldlife Park for Nancy's birthday

Had a great time at Fleay's Wildlife Park for my birthday. Images are of (from top): dingo, night heron, Perentie (type of monitor lizard), 2 rock wallabies, brolga with 2 chicks, croc in the water, 2 small dragons

New Vase Safely Home!

We've managed to get the beautiful Chinese vase we bought in Canberra safely home. It looks great!

Visit to Reptile Park in Canberra