It was a great weekend ...me the kids and the Duck Dive!

1987 - Camping trip to Toodyay area (east of Perth) with Dutch friends (they still live there, Padbury(daughter), parents (Lower Chittering/Bullsbrook), son (was Broome, now Tasmania, studying Marine biology). Daughter and mother both now work at CG hospital as nurses, husband is a radiologist or something. They are doing very well!

and this what ...............he/she drove

June 1988 - Guilderton. Small holiday/fishing town north of Perth.
Where the Moore river comes into the ocean. A sandbank is formed, but breaks again.

This is at the end of our 4 month round Oz trip. I skipped those 400 photo's :p

What the...!!?? :D

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1988 - End of year School trip to Hillaries/Underwaterworld

1988 - Playground of Kalamunda Primary School (probably changed a bit, but this is the general idea of what my school playgrounds looked like in Oz, and always also with oval(s), basketball court(s)

(me in the middle, brother in front)

Boat named after my daughter !:D

Feb 1989 - BBQ'ing in Kings Park


So, you guys got your rose tinted specs on yet??

sorry cock-up ! willtry again.

easter 1989 - Wave Rock (near Hyden, couple of hours southeast of Perth)
Good for weekend, also 'Hippo's Yawn'

Nice pic of sydney habour bridge and opera house together.

Might have been on that one, on our way to Taronga.... :)
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winter 1989 - A small part of Lesmurdie NP/Falls (to the right of Kalamunda in the Hills), with the Zwolodic (or something) family from Poland, who later moved to Sydney.
he he, look at the thick jumpers!!

1989 - Serpentine Dam (just to the south of Perth) The parrots (28's I think) were really tame, and even sat on your head.
Anybody recognise this lady? Anne-marie from London UK. They only lived in Perth a year, couldn't find (good) job. Daughter Cara was in my class.

In the same weekend away with that family, we went to stay at Donnely River, a holiday village, that used to be woodchoppers town. This is in the southwest, in between Nannup, Bridgetown...
Great bushwalking, a lake for swimming, VERY tame kangaroos, and even saw an emu with chicks once!

April 1990 - holiday in Albany (south west coast)

Culture ;)

April 1990

A performance with song and dance by Aboriginals in Whiteman Park (north Perth)
There was also a bit when kids and adults could join in.
This is with kids, playing kangaroos.