Dead Turtle

A turtle shell that was near the Macquarie marshes in NSW.

Tiny Dragon

Lots of little dragons were seen on a recent walk to the royal.

Critters of the Outback

Some of the interesting animals that were seen on a trip to the outback some months ago.


A lovely and fairly tame Echidna.


Tame Emu


The giant pig Patrick that lives at Willies Retreat.


Grey Kangaroo


Ducks and black swans.

Whites Skink

Whites Skink (Egernia whitii)
I fairly sure that this little blighter is Whites Skink.
It was seen in the royal national park.

Outback road

Very nice country side and simple driving.

Sundew

There are quite a few of these around at the moment this specimen was seen in the royal national park.

Super 14

The super 14 is about to start and yet again the Chiefs will undoubtedly dominate just to have the final trophy stolen from them due to poor refereeing and too many players being arrested for unfortunate misunderstandings over urinal location.

Olympic Park

Went cycling at Sydney Olympic Park on saturday.
The highlight was being lucky enough to stumble across an eastern blue tounge lizard (Tiliqua scincoides).


Not my picture as I had forgotten my camera.

Hard to believe

A suprisingly good result for NZ on the environmental standings.

Go the chiefs.

Nearly time for the super 14 to start again and undoubtedly the chiefs will once again be the dominant force.
Still it would help if team members refrained from getting arrested so often.
The most recent of the incidents involved Sione Lauaki coming out of the casino where he had squandered his earnings confident in the knowledge that if he gets an injury he will end up poor and on the dole. Still at least he didn't piss on the dance floor in a pub like another chiefs player.

Moving house

Who would have thought it was possible to accumulate so much stuff in so little time.
Still after a couple of awfull days it is all over now minus the destruction of the cat sized cockroaches that are plagueing my room.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

I was dragged to see the new Harry Potter movie dispite my efforts to suggest that King Kong would be a better choice. Strangely though it was better than I had imagined and in places aspired to being tolerable.

Oahu

Still more photos this time from Oahu.


Hoards of tourists heading up diamond head.


Wakiki beach from diamond head.




We went to a luau.


Also had a hawaiian party in a friends hotel room.


Hanuma bay, had to wait for an hour to get in but it was worth it.


Hideous


Sunset over the north shore.

More Maui

More photos from Maui, they were all taken during a walk to see a water fall.

Maui random pics.

All sorts of photos from our time on Maui.


A yellow finch type bird.


An absolutely colossal banyan tree.


A buddist temple.


A jesus sign with a pentagram on top.


Fish tacos a lot tastier than they sound.

Beaches of Maui

Visited so many beaches for the week that we were on Maui that I can't remember them all, here is a small selection though.






This beach was known as turtle town by the locals. No one saw any turtles but I did see a moray eel which was nice.


A rock on makena beach, a very interesting place particularly the smaller bit behind the cliff.
















Red sand beach.


Red sand beach sunset.

Spencer beach

Visited the lovely spencer beach towards the north of the big island, experienced some slight navigational difficulty on the way home.
The beach was lovely and and crowd free unfortunately I forgot to bring any snorkel gear.




There were some ruins to the north of the beach.






Sunset over spenser beach.

To the volcanos

This turned out to be a lot longer drive than I had imagined it to be but was a nice days outing none the less.


Looking down on some old crater thing?


Grasshopper also having a look.


More crater action.


Can't get enough of this crater.


Sulferous scunge.


Pretty lava.






Lava Plover


There she blows


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