Wright 2015 Australia Pictures
We visited
Australia in November 2015, spending a week on Kangaroo Island and several days
visiting our friends Jane and Malcolm Calder, who live in the Yarra Valley outside of Melbourne.
Kangaroo Island was
delightful. We particularly enjoyed staying at The Fig Tree in Baudin Beach. For the most part, we avoided the other
tourists and hiked by ourselves. One highlight was a private botanical garden
near Stokes Bay where we were practically the only visitors.
Jane and Malcolm
were among the survivors of the terrible 2009 bush fire in Steels Creek, and we were
particularly interested in learning how the people and the landscape had been
able to recover from the catastrophe. Although we had read books and seen a
video on the subject, actually being there brought it home to us in a new way. While
we were there, we took the opportunity to visit the extraordinary botanical
garden in Cranbourne, a suburb of Melbourne.
We took lots of
pictures. Here are a few of them,
leaving out a host of pictures of plants, both on the
island and on the mainland. You can see the pix and navigate around fairly
easily. To see all the pictures in a batch, click on its link to open a sort of
slide show. Click on any small picture to see it blown up. ÒPrevious,Ó ÒUpÓ and
ÒNextÓ will then let you navigate through the whole set or take you back to the
full thumbnail collection. To get back to this
page from thumbnails, click the "back to main directory" link.
Kangaroo Island (Note that there are two pages
of thumbnails here.)
Here are also some
short videos.
For pictures from
other adventures, simply go up a directory and scroll down to find links.
Charley and Leslie