Archive for December 19, 2009
AYRES ROCK (ULURU) Leave a comment
THE NORTHERN TERRITORY – BORDER REGION Leave a comment
My vehicle is a Toyota 4Runner that has now done over 500,000km by me
SOUTH AUSTRALIA – FLINDERS RANGERS Leave a comment
Salt lake of South Australia In Melbourne we dined on fresh abalone, had dinner with a former Lord Mayor of Melbourne and his wife (diving friends of mine), then in Adelaide Christina met a celebrity shark attack victim – a long term friend who never speaks of his accident with a Great White shark – [...]
HORSE RIDING IN MELBOURNE Leave a comment
Riding near Melbourne; Christina (right) Arriving in Victoria we camped for three days at my friend Ariarne’s house, one of the outer suburbs of Melbourne where her young daughter runs a horse-riding school on the family property. Such is life in Australia where space seems unlimited as compared with Taiwan. This may seem ideal but [...]
SYDNEY Leave a comment
The ‘Coathanger’ is a local term for Sydney Harbour Bridge The Sydney Opera House gets all the publicity but I have always admired The Harbour Bridge. It’s a magnificent structure and quite beautiful. Australia could easily have ended up with an ugly and simple design. It was opened about 1935 and built with money borrowed [...]
MID NORTH COAST, NEW SOUTH WALES Leave a comment
Free entertainment at Sandon River. The most isolated community on the NSW north coast. Wild and quite tame kangaroos were all around us the tiny town.
GREAT BARRIER REEF to FRASER ISLAND Leave a comment
Clump of live oysters. Low Isles off Port Douglas, Great Barrier Reef. We were not tourists but guests aboard my friends’ luxury dive boat, Freedom III Low Isles is an historic part of the Great Barrier Reef. It was the site of a British Museum expedition in 1926 – the first to survey coral reefs [...]
TAIWANESE IN AUSTRALIA (2001) Leave a comment
Christina, baby Jeanda (born in Australia) and Theresa, my Taiwanese friends T.St (right) married a famous Australian entertainer. They met while he was touring Taiwan under amazing and tragic circumstances. I introduced myself to them at one of his stage performances and we talked of aspects of film production and especially distribution of film which [...]
