Katoomba in the Blue Mountains

Blue Mountains – View from Carrington Park

This particular lookout is awe-inspiring in that no matter what the weather or time of day, it still draws poetry to mind.

In November 2000, the Greater Blue Mountains (including the Blue Mountains National Park) was listed as a World Heritage Area. It covers over one million hectares.

Bob-tailed Blue tongue lizard

The Blue Mountains – View from Bridal Veil Lookout

The Blue Mountains - View from Copelands Lookout

Copper coloured lizard

Young - Old Man Banksia Banksia serrata

Our feast on Christmas Day !

The Blue Mountains - ‘The Three Sisters’ view from Echo Point

The Blue Mountains - View looking west from Echo Point

Unanderra near Wollongong New South Wales 18-12-10

Exotic or Native?

Pink Bottlebrush

Storm approaching!

White-faced Heron

Kosciuszko National Park New South Wales 16-12-10

Mountain Lupine

Tooma Dam

Snow gum - Eucalyptus pauciflora! Strange because from October to January a profuse amount of lovely white flowers appear! It has beautiful twisted branches and only grows to about 30 metres tall. So it’s a small to medium spreading tree. It usually has a somewhat crooked trunk and many branches with distinctive beautiful smooth green, grey and cream bark.

Still recovering from huge bushfires in 2003

Slow recovery from the 2003 bushfires

Our Bedouin style tarp cover at Three-mile Dam

Silken surface that seems only to appear during early morning or late afternoon sunlight. Angle of sun’s rays as they touch still waters - perhaps

A pale green butterfly/moth? almost unseen midst the grasses

Will have to identify this extraordinary flower taken at Three-mile Dam

At sunset looking east across Three-mile Dam

Some of the Aboriginal peoples art encountered during our trip around Australia

Ngarinyin Wandjina 2003 – Ngarinyin Artist: Deanne Bidd

This work is based on the Wandjina and Gyorn Gyorn figures that are found as cave paintings in the north-west Kimberley.

Ngarinyin people are all represented by the Wandjina, named Wanalirra who is the supreme spirit for Ngarinyin. In the artist’s words ‘We are one body for the painting that is Ngarinyin’

Untitled (Body painting) 1991 - Artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye

This painting is a woman’s body painting design. Emily Kame Kngwarreye did not begin painting until she was in her seventies and was awarded an Australian Artists Creative Fellowship in 1992.

Ngatilli, black cockatoo 1992 – Artist: David Malangi

This painting shows the black cockatoos sitting in a tree looking at the Dhamala waterholes, close to the mouth of the Glyde River. This river is near the Arafura swamp in Malangi’s country.

Male and Female Goanna – Artist: R. Saunders

Tobwarra Art tells the story of the Worimi people whose country is the Great Lakes region of New South Wales

Bendigo to Wangaratta Victoria 14-12-10

Bendigo Fire Station

Sculpture by Yvonne George

Celebrating Women in the development of Bendigo

Royal Grevillea near Wangaretta

Tallangatta to Kosciusko National Park Victoria 15-12-10

Trestle Bridge National Park

Trestle Bridge over old railway line

Long disused railway line

And down by Kosciusko, where the pine-clad ridges raise
Their torn and rugged battlements on high,
Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze
At midnight in the cold and frosty sky,
And where around the Overflow the reedbeds sweep and sway
To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide,
The man from Snowy River is a household word to-day,
And the stockmen tell the story of his ride.