This area of the University of Adelaide campus almost makes me want to sign up for grad school. How does anyone get any work done in such a beautiful place?
Okay, is this the scariest entrance ever?!?!?! This psychotic grinning clown is the entrance to Luna Park, an amusement park just across the Harbor Bridge from Sydney.Gives me nightmares!!!
Could this BE any more beautiful? A schooner tips in homage to the majestic Sydney Opera House.
An emu emphatically ignores the sign's instructions at the Habitat Rainforest Preserve in Port Douglas. And yes, I was that close to this very LARGE bird!
Koalas are every bit as cuddly as they seem. This cute little guy was introduced to me at the Habitat Rainforest Preserve by a fella who makes Crocodile Dundee sound like a New Yorker!
So beautiful, I had to take another picture. Sue me. Guess it was too beautiful a day to pass up an opportunity to go sailing, whatever the boat.
Aussies are great people for making any open area a fun place to be. These schoolkids are playing rugby during recess in a park created under the Sydney Harbor Bridge (on the Kirribilli side). Too cool!
Believe it or not, boys and girls, this was taken at a vineyard! In my five previous trips Down Under, I'd toured the Hunter and Yarra valleys, the Margaret River valley and now, the Barossa Valley. Yep, I'm officially a wino!
The mile-long walk from Bondi Beach to Bronte featured art installations of all kinds and this one seemed just too appropriate for a top-optional beach (like all of them in Australia). I would've seen more art, but about 5,000 other people had the same idea.
I can't help but take a picture every time I sit down for breakfast at the Soul N' Pepper in Port Douglas. It just too beautiful a view. I don't know if you can tell, but just in front of my plate, the table features a huge gap where the sun and sea have eroded the tree-sourced tabletop. 
Down here, if you get a group of boys together and hand them a bunch of long sticks, they don't play hockey, they row (or crew, as I believe the sport is called). Pretty neat team event, huh?
Back at the Habitat Rainforest Preserve, the mornings feature a program called "Breakfast with the Birds." And they aren't kidding. While the parakeets were colorful (if not also noisy and a bit too aggressive for my liking), there were some stork-looking birds that (at almost 3 feet tall) were a bit too big to be jumping on my table and reaching for my muffin!
