Grey's ANZ Adventure Photos!

  1. We arrive in Aus, and here's the Harbour Bridge
  2. The Harbour Bridge 2
  3. The Harbour Bridge 3
  4. Sydney
  5. The Opera House!
  6. Closeup
  7. Closeup
  8. Darling Harbour
  9. Overlooking the Sydney Aquarium
  10. Platypus!
  11. Sucker sharks + me. hey...
  12. Me again and... Yikes!
  13. Quick hop to NZ and here's out first hotel on the outskirts of Auckland
  14. Driving on the wrong^Hother side of the road
  15. Skytower!
  16. Up we go, and here I am!
  17. Auckland from the air
  18. More
  19. Feels like we're playing SimCity...
  20. Auckland is the largest city in NZ.
  21. A third of all NZ's three million residents live here.
  22. Woo! 10x zoom baby! (compare with #21)
  23. Pedestrian crossing mayhem
  24. A surprisingly good shot of Auckland Town Hall
  25. My Dad enjoying the air
  26. Hello Lord Auckland!
  27. Now leaving Auckland.
  28. Entering LOTR territory.
  29. More nice shots
  30. All of these available in large size should you want desktops ;)
  31. Ah! The Beach! The water was a little cold :/
  32. But we can pretend!
  33. Look! Tropical!
  34. And native NZ wildlife!
  35. Volcanic rock.
  36. Whale Island, offshore near Whakatane
  37. The forbidding slopes of White Island, NZ's only active offshore volcano
  38. Oooooooh forbidding!
  39. The crater
  40. Sulphur vents
  41. Avast! Enemy spotted in the distance cap'n!
  42. Like real construction workers, people come to this island every day but no work ever seems to get done...
  43. Peering over the edge. This volcanic water is ~60C and pH 1.
  44. Care for a dip? hey...
  45. Nice scenery shots
  46. The island is very desolate
  47. Virtually nothing grows within the crater walls
  48. A river of volcanic water laden with iron, pH 2
  49. It was a great day
  50. Maybe a little windy
  51. Which might explain why all these shots are empty?
  52. Abandoned sulphur processing factory
  53. One of my brothers commented that the place looks like something out of Myst
  54. Looks like metal... it's actually been fossilized and is slowly flaking away
  55. Cool shot
  56. Back on shore, this waterfall was near an alley behind our hotel
  57. Mountains in NZ just seem to appear out of nowhere after kilometers of relatively flat land
  58. Overlooking Rotorua
  59. Mmmmm. Beer and a great view. What more could you ask for?
  60. Huka Falls. More of a channel where the water level drops 10m. My brother considered asking if we could raft it
  61. I had different plans
  62. Out of all four of us, I think I was the only one who'd ever seen a snowcapped mountain
  63. So when we saw this one, the northern-most of the three big ones which include Mt. Ruapehu...
  64. We all had to get out and take lots of pictures
  65. Like lots...
  66. You should see all the ones I didn't post!
  67. Our little rental Lancer wanted us to take a picture of it too
  68. Crazy thing? There are scattered palm trees in the brush in front of us!
  69. Doo dee doo
  70. ... I guess I was thinking: "at least one of these has to turn out
  71. Can we leave now?
  72. Okay! Up the mountain road to Ruapehu's peak
  73. The snowline, with the two other peaks in the distance
  74. If you zoom in any more, you'll see the slopes covered in skiers
  75. mmmmm Mountains!
  76. Back around the loop and we managed to catch sunset over lake Taupo
  77. Heading south from Taupo... nice mountain range
  78. Wellington, from the top of the cable car line
  79. Me taking a break. The white fence in the back is where the cable car goes up the hill
  80. After taking an English course in university studying the works of Katherine Mansfield, I finally make it to her place :)
  81. Nice shot from in the house
  82. On the wharf in Wellington, the aged timbers of the Inconstant have been dug up and were in the process of being preserved. The ship had been built in Canada and was a nice reminder for us of our dear homeland :)
  83. Wellington harbour on our last day in NZ :(
  84. Back in Sydney, and Darling Harbour
  85. Sydney Tower. Alas, we never got up this one
  86. This bird was an expert at raiding trash cans... as you might be able to surmise on your own ;)
  87. Darling Harbour at night 1
  88. Darling Harbour at night 2
  89. Darling Harbour at night 3
  90. The next day we took a boat into the national park just outside Sydney
  91. Most of Australia is desert and parkland
  92. Because of this, good housing is at a premium, almost triple the price of a similar sized city in North America
  93. Kookaburra!
  94. Inching closer
  95. Oh! Distracted... by nice... desktop image... Must... take... picture!
  96. Brother Jack teasing a magpie
  97. Here we start a whirlwind tour at Olympic Stadium
  98. Next stop, Featherdale nature park. Koala!
  99. A tame kook
  100. A tribunal of frogmouths
  101. Really cool looking bird
  102. What visit to an Australian zoo would be complete without...
  103. Just making sure
  104. My sister and friend feeding the animals. Note sneaky pigeon in the process of knocking over a feed cup
  105. Echidna
  106. Tazmanian Devil! No, he didn't scream and spin around.
  107. Now out west to the Blue Mountains
  108. Where we saw the Three Sisters
  109. I took lots of pictures here but the sun was at the wrong angle and most didn't turn out well
  110. This one was okay
  111. These views taken from Echo point
  112. Taking a ferry back to Circular Quay
  113. The Opera House, hiding under the Harbour Bridge
  114. Sydney!
  115. Nice closeup of the Opera house
  116. What vacation to anywhere would be complete without... souvenir shopping!
  117. Sister and friend at the First Fleet Monument in Botany Bay
  118. One of my brothers lives in Australia and got married on the last day of our vacation. This is his cat
  119. Dressed up in the bridesmaid colours
  120. Jack, pondering married life along with cat
  121. Alas, I was in the wedding party so no wedding pics. Instead, we stopped in Venice Beach, Los Angeles USA on the way home. The water was great, the wind didn't like my hair :)

Finis!