"Spectral Ian In Front Of Lifeguard Stand"

"Money Can't Buy It"

Mom & Lil after a hard day of surfing

TRON said:

That is incredible. You are all having so much fun ~ you'll never want to leave
Thsoe trees are spectacular ~ them

TRON said:

Did you get lost in the forest?

All these pics are fantastic! They make me want to plan a trip. When that would happen, I have no idea.

this looks awesome! so jealous and excited at the same time. 3 weeks looks like it cant be long enough!
[Edited 4/19/09 8:58am]

im not sure who you are or what this is about
but welcome to Australia

funkii said:

used to be gangstafam if that helps things any. but somehow i doubt it.

TRON said:

TRON said:

This is awesome!

TRON said:

Love it.

Are you travelling or just staying in Queensland?

TyphoonTip said:

We're actually in Sydney, but we headed up to Queensland for a few days.

mzsadii said:

Just caught this.

MoonSongs said:

It's a strange feeling travelling this much. You want to go, go, go as much as you possibly can. But you also appreciate what you have at home more than ever. I'm eager to cram as much in and have the best possible time, but I'm eager to put it all back together once I get back.

sextonseven said:

We did, actually. It really wasn't that long of a stretch that we walked, but it felt endless. These are only a fraction of the pictures that we took, but they really capture what it was like there. You should see the trees in Hawaii. Totally alien.

Surfing montage - resized to protect the guilty - it wasn't pretty.

So the drive from Sydney to Gold Coast (just inside Queensland) is quite a jog. At least 10 hours I'd say. We were so busted from walking everywhere, fighting the waves, attempting to surf and the non-stop drive on the way there, that we decided to break it up a bit on the drive home. After our surfing lesson, we cleaned up a bit, helped Lillian to the bus station, had a quick dinner and got on the road. We had a hotel room booked for Port MacQuarie, which is a beautiful and quaint ocean town a little more than midway back to Sydney. I wish we would've had a little more time there cuz the scenery was breathtaking - lava rock everywhere, flowering plants I've never seen before, amazing gravity defying trees, stretches of beach as far as the eye could see. It makes for a nice day trip and I'd definitely go again in the future. I took a few fun pictures on our drive back. Here's the best of the lot.

Ian with our favorite trees along the coastline of Port MacQuarie...





Wombat Beach Resort. We have a thing for wombats.





Wash N Set mom having a smoke break.





Me driving on the other side of the road for the first time ever!! Well, legally anyway.







Aussies love to name things twice. I can't think of all the doubles we saw along the way, but our favorite was 'Mooney Mooney'.





And this one's for Nikki. It makes me think of you. Again, geeking out on the trees. There was a little stretch of what looked like birch trees, except they were really narrow and straight and dense and over 100 feet tall. I captured them clearly in the background, but it's a cool effect cuz there were these purplish flowering bushes in the foreground that are all blurry. A bit impressionistic, but very sweet. I love it.

TRON said:

are you sure this isn't on her deck at home? deja vous!

she's going to kill you for that.

UBER JEALOUS!!!!

MoonSongs said:

Is that the one that practically raped me in Mrs. Renner's living room?

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TRON said:

Awesome.

So many great pics you posted, but I singled out this one.

sextonseven said:

My mom has the same curler set

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Don't be hatin' on me and my boo

Imago said:

There's only room for hatred of one My warheads are on alert in case you make another move

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Imago said:

Get is straight USSR

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

I think my mom did too 30 years ago.