Wildlife Photography

Yesterday we visited the Australia Museum to check out the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibit. There were so many amazing photos, it definitely motivated me to get out and shoot more things in my spare time - besides my own cat :)

Check out the online gallery here: Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year

More from Sydney

Thinking about putting this shot on the bio page of my web site - it screams "professional photographer," don't you think? :)

The other nite Jaime, Ben and I went out on the town in Sydney. At some point during the nite my high heel got stuck in a grate and came right off my foot (oops). Some random Aussie passerby made quite a big deal about it, declaring me "Cinderella!" Which I guess is better than my take on the situation - "Klutz!!"

Opera anyone?

Well, now I can say I've seen an opera at the Sydney opera house. And I can also say that I am 99% sure I won't seen an opera again! We all agreed our evening would have been better spent at a rugby match, it just wasn't our cup of tea, or scoop of vegemite, or whatever they say here :)

Here's a pic of Jaime, Katie, Sarah and myself in front of the Sydney opera house - before we were exchanging "what have we gotten ourselves into" glances, haha!

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Greetings from Oz!

Just a few snapshots from the trip so far, proof that I am indeed still alive! :) These take forever to load from the wifi at our hostel, but we head back to Sydney in the morning so I'll post some more up in the next few days...

We each got to hold a koala (Irwin, who I don't think was quite awake)

And feed wallabies! Check out the feet hanging out of this one's pouch, not sure how comfy that looks, but hey whatever works! And for the record, I'm not "hat person" since I think they make me look even more like I'm 12 years old, but you gotta do what you gotta do when it comes to sunburned noses :)

Yesterday we rafted on the Tully River, a full day of class 4 rapids. Guess who can't swim and was a bit panicked the majority of the trip?? I survived, and there are some hilarious photos of us on the rapids but I'll post more up later when I have a better a better internet connection!

We made it!

We made it to Sydney yesterday morning after close to 20 hours of travel... yikes. So far it's just like Oregon but warmer - it's been pouring since we got here! But in Oregon we don't have parrots in the backyard, so that's pretty cool...

I won the award for "lightest packer" - my checked bag was only 15 lbs - next was Ben at 35, Jaime's was in the 40s, and Katie and Sarah both broke the 70 lb mark. So I guess I have a lot of room to buy things :)

Tomorrow morning we fly to Cairns, where it's supposed to be sunny and 90 degrees. No pictures to post yet but hopefully I'll have some soon! Don't expect anything amazing, I only brought my point and shoot and a video camera so that I don't have to worry about much.

Hope you all enjoyed the Super Bowl - we watched it here but we didn't get to see any of the good commercials! Thank goodness for the internet :)