We’re almost done gearing up in Auckland for our one-month car tour around New Zealand’s North Island. See a reminder of the kind of beauty we’ve already seen so far at https://hopperguy.com/PhotosandFilms/?p=159. Hover your cursor over a photo to get a description: date, place, and subject. Click on one...
Uluru (Ayer’s Rock)
Animal Friends We Met So Far
We’re back in Auckland, a town we visited before, so we may not post a lot of sightseeing photos. But no worries! Look back with us at the wildlife we saw in the first part of our journey. (You have to open the post first by clicking “Continue Reading.”)...
Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas)
We toured Uluru at sunset and Kata Tjuta at sunrise. Pictures are at the bottom of this post. We learned a lot by stopping first at the culture center for the Aṉangu (Anna-NU), the traditional “owners” (inhabitants). They looked after the land. They had practiced patch burning for years,...
The Red Centre
We’re at Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock). I’m posting now because we have an afternoon trip of Uluru today and a morning trip of nearby Kata Tjuta tomorrow. Australians call Uluru “The Red Centre” because the soil here is red and it’s in the middle of the country (sort of)....
Greetings from the future . . . and the past.
Well, it’s tomorrow here to my American friends. The U.S. is so yesterday on this side of the International Date Line. We had a fabulous day in Sydney yesterday, largely courtesy of Kevin ‘s college chum Dana and her husband Keith. We saw the Sydney Opera House Saw...
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