Australia Photoshow!

[bikerchick68]

In September I visited Australia for 2 weeks... I put together a Photoshow recently and thought maybe some of you would enjoy seeing it... most of the plant pics are from a 10 hour hike of the Blue Mountains... amazing trip. And Tim Tams rock... as does that super thick soft black licorice Australia has... YUM! :D

It takes 30 seconds to a minute to load... hope you enjoy...

http://beta.photoshow.com/watch/xy8AD5Ck

[caligurl]

WOW! absolutely GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!!!!! (love the koala and kangaroo pics!!! too too cute!)

[Haudlady]

This is amazing! Thanks for sharing, Bikerchick!

The slugs in my yard don't look like that... and that koala has long claws! Are they very sharp? It looks like it had quite the grip on you.

Oh dear... another place to add to my "someday I want to visit" list.

[Offthegrid]

Great photos, but you shoulda warned me there'd be a giant spider!!!

I didn't know they let tourists hold koalas -- awesome!

[crazycanuck]

Koalas are not as cute as you think....their claws are so sharp!!!! I'd rather look at a roo...

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[light_sabe_r]

Where my parents live, (where I grew up) there were koalas in the backyard.

What people who don't work or live with Koalas don't know is that their mating call is HORRIBLE!!!!


Think of a pig... and a screaming child...

And you get a male and female koala mating at 1am in the morning every day for one week in august.

Ahhh... The good old days.



I love the butterfly laying eggs on you! That's cool! Did you give them to the keeper?

Anyway fantastic photos bikerchick, I gotta make one correction to the subtitles though...

"wattle, national flower" Ummm... That's a WARRATAH, The state flower of new south wales, Wattle is yellow and looks like a a bunch of pompoms (or long pointy fluffy yellow things depending on the species). Chock full of pollen and is the main cause of allergies in hayfever sufferers in september

http://www.australiagift.com/boomerang/wattle-2.jpg

[Thistle]

Great photos bikerchick :D

Just have to tell you that we had a games night last night and two of the friends who came brought a joey cos they are wildlife carers and they are looking after her. Even to an aussie, they are so soft and so cute :)

[Trekhawk]

Love the Pics but they make me a little homesick. Well not the croc or spider or snake ones.:D

[crazycanuck]

I loved the photoshow...May I just ask you how close you were to that snake??? :eek: Oh yeah...while i'm here..is that a huntsman spider??? :eek: If so, they can stay on the east coast!!!!

When are you coming out west???

From what i understand, the koalas that you saw were bred to be held by humans. I spoke to one of the staff as the wildlife park here about people handling Koalas(Caversham has a wombat you can hold but not a koala) and she stated Koalas die much faster if they're held as it saps thier energy. Koalas sleep most of the day...as you would if it was over 35c where you lived.

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[jobob]

neat-o ! :cool:

[salsabike]

Great pics! Thanks.

[margo49]

Wow!
That made me almost-home - sick (note punctuation)
[transl. to Ozzie English: nearly-home - seek]
[transl. to Godzone English: nearly-home - suck]

[crazycanuck]

Thread hijack...

Aust english-Seeedney (sydney)
Godzone english-Sudney..(too funny when i went back to nz for christmas & this is exactly how one of our dear friends, originally from Invercargill, spoke.)

heeee heeee

c

[Bad JuJu]

Excellent slideshow--nice distribution of all the things you want to see from a trip: characteristic tourist sights, activity pix, and all those wonderful wildlife shots! TFS!

[bikerchick68]

Glad you all enjoyed the trip with me! :D

cali... thanks... I was SO excited to get pics with them...:D

Haudlady... yes, the Koala claws were sharp, but I think they filed them... my friend I traveled with works for the zoological society here... and her boyfriend is the Zoo nutritionist... so believe me, I was standing there holding her and had it in my head that no matter how cute, this IS a wild animal...

off the grid... I didn't either! I was floored... here they wouldn't even consider it... but it sure was neat...

light... I'm cracking up about the Koala mating noises... sounds worse than the alley cat that goes in heat in my neighborhood. :rolleyes: :p And THANK YOU for the name Warratah! I had Wattle on a pic like you posted... but that was as close as I could remember... I changed it in my pics... you should have seen me on this hike, trying to climb, take pics and take notes so I would get it all right... this guide was LOL at me... said I took more pics than any person he'd ever guided before. :D I filled a 1 gig memory card on the hike ;)

theav... the joey was so sweet... her mother was hit by a car and someone rescued the joey and took her in to the sanctuary..

trekhawk... LOL! :D

crazy.... I was not super close to the snake... I have a good zoom :D I was pretty close to the spider... I have NO CLUE what kind he is... was hoping he was 1) not poisonous and 2) not a jumper :eek: Thought it was worth the shot tho... next trip I want to do a birding excursion of the outback... I LOVED Australia and all the people we met were wonderful! Friendly and warm...

jobob and salsa.. thanks!:)

margo.. :D glad you enjoyed it...

badjuju... thank you!!! I appreciate that feedback... I know how it is when someone comes home from a trip and wants to show you hundreds of pics (I think I took around 500) I tried to be selective and show things people would recognize or find interesting AND that were respresentative of Australia as I saw it...

[Bikingmomof3]

I thought I typed this earlier, but guess not. My mind is going. :rolleyes:
Great pics! Thank you for sharing them. :)