My fourth full day in Australia was a Sunday, and my godmother is a devout churchgoer. So I didn’t go on another full-day tour. Instead, I did my laundry and my postcard writing in the morning, and I got on an afternoon cruise down the river to the Fremantle Harbour and back. It seems pretty tame compared to the sandboarding of the day before, but it’s kind of hard to top a Desert Storm adventure when you’re touring unfamiliar country….
The Photo Friday topic is “smooth” so I thought I’d let this installment of my Australia posts do double duty. Dunes are generally pretty smooth looking mounds of sand, right? Well, this shot was taken at the dunes in Lancelin, where you can also see a white sand beach to the west if you’re standing high on a mound somewhere. Now, I know this particular dune doesn’t look perfectly smooth, but that’s because of what our group and others did…
On my third full day in Perth, I took a second full day tour. It stopped for a bit at Caversham Wildlife Park, so I have some photos of me feeding and petting a kangaroo, cradling a coarse-haired wombat in my lap, and petting a sleepy koala. Then it was a lot of driving, a lunch in Cervantes, and a lot more driving, until we came to Nambung National Park, home of the Pinnacles. It was hot there and bright,…
I thought I’d take a small break from posting my Australia photos to participate in Photo Friday this week, where the topic is Technology. This is an oil rig off the coast of Huntington Beach, during sunset—a very familiar view for me. Oil rigs are a commonplace sight here in H.B.—they are everywhere. They dot the parking lot of the courthouse, the neighborhood in empty lots next to expensive houses, the bare lands next to the ecological reserves, and every…
Ah, Albany. This is on the south coast of Western Australia, further east of the Valley of the Giants. It’s gorgeous there, with deep blue skies and white sand beaches. It’s cool and breezy, the winds blowing the clouds across the sky so quickly it’s like you’re sitting in H.G. Wells’ time machine as it moves toward the future. In this particular part of Albany, we visited the Gap and the Natural Bridge, and the tour guide told us that…