Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
Oct 11th 2007, 2:37 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
The contrast of the red soil against the colour of the sea near Broome, WA. Magical.
Oct 11th 2007, 4:14 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
Coolest things I've seen :
the great barrier reef
stumbling across a wild cassowary in the forests in the atherton tablelands...very exciting and very pretty scary too !!
following a dingo for a few km's up a dry river bed, in the rainforest in SE Qld. (then having a beer or two back at the camp).
the great barrier reef
stumbling across a wild cassowary in the forests in the atherton tablelands...very exciting and very pretty scary too !!
following a dingo for a few km's up a dry river bed, in the rainforest in SE Qld. (then having a beer or two back at the camp).
Oct 11th 2007, 5:42 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
Taking the kids out fishing for the first time and seeing a sea turtle just 2 feet away. Then while watching for him to bob up again a pod of dolphins just swam by, litterally right under our eyes, 2 feet away and then lept out of the water. Got so excited neary screamed, can't describe the excitment. Magic.
Oct 11th 2007, 6:58 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
Certainly the COOLEST thing I've seen recently was 6 inches of hailstones on Tuesday afternoon but I think I much prefer kayaking with a dugong just off Moreton Island and the wallabies and koalas in my garden.
Oct 11th 2007, 7:08 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
close call -
either the kangaroo students at our uni...
or the helicopter water bombing the bushfire next to our houses...
either the kangaroo students at our uni...
or the helicopter water bombing the bushfire next to our houses...
Oct 11th 2007, 12:01 pm
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
the sunrise on mission beach overlooking Dunk island!
Oct 11th 2007, 12:13 pm
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you lucky, lucky b'stard!
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
o where to start?
- the smile on the kids faces when they started to suff
- the humpback whales off the oils at work
- the tiger sharks off the oil rigs at work
- turtle nests on the beech at work
- sea snakes
- little sharks meandering along the beech at work
- 2, yes, 2 (two) check out operators at Woolworths.....
- the smile on the kids faces when they started to suff
- the humpback whales off the oils at work
- the tiger sharks off the oil rigs at work
- turtle nests on the beech at work
- sea snakes
- little sharks meandering along the beech at work
- 2, yes, 2 (two) check out operators at Woolworths.....
Oct 11th 2007, 8:43 pm
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
the sun rising every morning..........
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Oct 12th 2007, 12:42 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
Here's my list so far:
1. My daughter's first time at the beach. She's only 3 so she thought she was moving to a "beach party", that's all she got out of our explanations.
2. A bird just walking around the indoor food cart at the Harbourside Mall in Sydney. This was during our first few days so we though it was pretty cool.
3. The underwater tunnel at the Sydney Aquarium.
4. The Taronga Zoo. The bird show was pretty cool. This was also the kids first trip to a zoo.
5. Going to an ice hockey game in Newcastle. Very different from the arenas in Canada!
6. The kids at Whitewater World. They thought it was the best place in the whole world. The thought that it was probably snowing in Canada made it even better
We're going to see the Great Barrier Reef in December, so I'm sure that'll be at the top of the list soon!
1. My daughter's first time at the beach. She's only 3 so she thought she was moving to a "beach party", that's all she got out of our explanations.
2. A bird just walking around the indoor food cart at the Harbourside Mall in Sydney. This was during our first few days so we though it was pretty cool.
3. The underwater tunnel at the Sydney Aquarium.
4. The Taronga Zoo. The bird show was pretty cool. This was also the kids first trip to a zoo.
5. Going to an ice hockey game in Newcastle. Very different from the arenas in Canada!
6. The kids at Whitewater World. They thought it was the best place in the whole world. The thought that it was probably snowing in Canada made it even better
We're going to see the Great Barrier Reef in December, so I'm sure that'll be at the top of the list soon!
Oct 12th 2007, 4:46 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
only been here 5 weeks so far but (and in no particular order)
1 - driving down to the gold coast 1 hour after landing and seeing a huge flock of birds flying alongside us and realising that they were cockatiels and not seagulls/starlings
2 - seeing loads of brightly coloured birds on a daily basis
3 - the bats
4 - wild dolphins swimming past my daughter and another expats daughter
5 - BBQs on the beach for breakfast
6 - the views from a recent walk up a mountain
7 - the drive to take the kids to school
and those are the ones that pop straight into my head and long may i have many more "coolest" things
1 - driving down to the gold coast 1 hour after landing and seeing a huge flock of birds flying alongside us and realising that they were cockatiels and not seagulls/starlings
2 - seeing loads of brightly coloured birds on a daily basis
3 - the bats
4 - wild dolphins swimming past my daughter and another expats daughter
5 - BBQs on the beach for breakfast
6 - the views from a recent walk up a mountain
7 - the drive to take the kids to school
and those are the ones that pop straight into my head and long may i have many more "coolest" things
Oct 12th 2007, 4:52 am
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
1) The view from the top of Uluru - magical!
2) Standing on the pitch at the MCG
3) Great Barrier Reef
2) Standing on the pitch at the MCG
3) Great Barrier Reef
Oct 12th 2007, 5:46 am
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Oct 21st 2007, 8:39 pm
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
A few.........
Walking over a sand dune at sunrise and seeing Uluru.
Climbing uluru.
Fruitbats in the trees.
Cape Tribulation Beach.
Sunset at the top of the Harbour Bridge.
View from our hotel bedroom opposite the Opera House.
Walking over a sand dune at sunrise and seeing Uluru.
Climbing uluru.
Fruitbats in the trees.
Cape Tribulation Beach.
Sunset at the top of the Harbour Bridge.
View from our hotel bedroom opposite the Opera House.
Oct 21st 2007, 8:47 pm
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Re: Coolest thing you have seen in Australia?
Im speaking for my husband here but he reckons the coolest thing he seen in oz was a boa constrictor in a hotel car park in the Whitsundays says it was huge but cool.
he also loved jack Daniels and coke in a can and the pies!!