My Australian holiday - you asked for it !

[MrWiggly]

Bored ??? Certainly not matey !!

 

Every morning the wife insists on seeing "Snatchers latest".

 

Keep them coming Snatcher .. The more the merrier !!

Edited November 29, 2008 by MrWiggly

[Janet]

Great reading and some fabulous pictures!

 

Looking forward to the next instalment.

 

Janet

[Bobj]

Excellent, mate!!

[Hellbelly]

Bring em on mate. Some good pics here and its good to see what you were getting up to too.

 

Mick.

[Snatcher]

Oh well as promised then here is Sydney Aquarium.Like most of the major attractions it is central to the city and in fact lies on Darling Harbour front.Apart from looking forward to seeing all the fish I was also looking forward to the photographic challenge!!!

 

First up was this nasty looking moray eel,it really does look evil!!

 

 

It was onto the seal pool next,this chap really knew how to please

 

 

 

It was on to see the crocs next,little was I to know about the encounters I would have with them later on in the wild

 

 

Next up was the big oceanic tank and tunnel,it really was impressive

 

 

 

The wife sneakily got a shot of me in action!!

 

 

Some of the fish really were enormous

 

[Snatcher]

This shot really shows the scale of the thing

 

 

The glass floor really threw me as I was not expecting it!!

 

 

When I found this spot I really was spellbound and spent quite a while just sitting here and watching the fish

 

 

Da da Da da Da da Da da !!!!!

 

 

I just had to finish off with a shot of "nemo"

 

 

Next installment - Sydney Zoo

Edited December 1, 2008 by MrWiggly

[MrWiggly]

And the journey continues ...

 

Great stuff Snatcher.

 

Looking forward to the next installment !!

[Snatcher]

Tarongo Zoo lies on the north side of Sydney harbour and the best way to get there is to take a ferry from Circular Quay.Circular Quay is the main ferry terminal in Sydney harbour and lies adjacent to the Opera House.You can just make it out in this first photograph.

 

 

On arrival at the zoo you have the option of taking the bus or cable car to the main entrance,we elected for the cable car.

 

 

The day had started off very overcast and rain threatened,to make matters worse we had forgotten it was a school holiday and I think every child in Sydney was at the zoo thay day!! As you know with zoo visits it can be really hard to find an animal visible/awake in many of the enclosures but we found this Komodo Dragon proudly strutting his stuff

 

 

Next up for us was a bird display,not a bad backdrop for it

 

 

This eagle was most impressive and actually used a stone to break open an ostrich egg to get to the yolk

 

 

This "bird" certainly caught my eye !!!

 

 

Last on was a colourful little parrot

 

[Snatcher]

It was onto the elephant enclosure next,just as the sun started to appear.Check out this guy chucking muck around

 

 

The sealion had quite a large pool to swim about in and he really was pleasing the crowd

 

 

We went on to the chimpanzees next but they were all out of sight apart from this mother nursing her baby AHHH did I here you say?

 

 

I asked these two giraffes to "pose" for the camera and they duly obliged

 

 

We did find one meerkat wide awake,the rest were dozing

 

 

At the end of the visit it really did please me to find another NUFC supporter with his top on

 

 

It had been a most enjoyable trip around the zoo and we finally headed back to the ferry via the cable car again

 

 

Next installment - the Walk from Bondi to Coogee

[Snatcher]

Bondi and Coogee beaches are a popular weekend escape for Sydneysiders with their nice clean beaches and close proximity to the city. Amanda had said that the walk between the two was really nice and not too strenuous!!!!!! She was waving a carrot at the end of it though.We had been invited to her mates place in Coogee for a barbie.Well I had heard that much about their barbies I just had to go.

 

We got the train from the city into Bondi Junction and walked down to the beach and very nice it was too

 

 

There were loads of surfers out as well just waiting for that big one!

 

 

Just around the first corner we came across the "hermits hut".It seems that this guy has been living here for years and is world famous .Amanda said that the council were going to evict him a while ago but the public backlash was so intense they backed off.He is also a keen fisherman,just wish I had met him.

 

 

 

The wife and I did stop and pose for this shot

 

 

Now the ozzies are really obsessed with fitness and the amount of runners and speed walkers doing the same "walk" as us was amazing!!! Around the next corner we came on this crowd cooling off in the waves

 

 

Now there are two small beaches between Bondi and Coogee but I cannot recall their names,they were very pretty though.