More of us....am I self absorbed or what!?!?

Lake Mountain (with no lake!!?) It does snow in Victoria!

Sian and me being cold in Marysville!

June 07 - Us in Marysville

16/6/2007 Our cottage in Marysville

8/4/2007 Sian's birthday was spent by St Andrews beach

3/4/2007 Melbourne's Eureka tower at sunset

18/3/2007 At the GP in Albert Park

Sharlene, Sian, Steve, Paul and Pat

Akaka falls

What you cant see are the giant mosquitos!

Looking down at the beach.......

.....gonna be a tough hike down.......

.....view from the bottom.......

.......we've gotta walk up again!!!!

Sunset from 9200ft on Mauna Kea

Mauna Kea,we're at 9200ft (out of 14000), slightly out of breath

View across to Hawaii's second highest peak, Mauna Loa.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii's highest peak, well above the clouds

Kilauea Caldera again, but very close this time, choking sulpher

Lave tube, cool.

Formed by a simple process where some lava cools quicker than others.

gotta love rainforests!

fair enough

Shall we stop the car? Dont see this everyday

In the distance, lava is hitting the sea

Kilauea Caldera-The most active volcanoe on earth

Rainbow falls-The Big Island

and yes, I was scarred leaning over the edge, no barriers.....

Waikiki again

Sunset on Waikiki beach, our last night on O'ahu

A damm big ship, the USS Missourri

Self explanatory

USS Arizona.

You're looking at part of the hull of the battleship, which still contains the bodies of about 1100 men, who remain where they fell. It also contains approx 500,000 gallons of oil, that still oozes out today, since 1941.

Pearl Harbor-looking towards Ford Island

USS Arizona memorial ahead, eerie place

Diamond Head crater, a safe place to build on!

Waikiki and Honolulu from Diamond Head crater

Morman kidnapping!

The mormans kidnapped us and brought us here, they even threatened to "come see us in Australia"

Morman kidnapping

Our escape route......

Some people from Tonga, I think.

Polynesian thing at the cultural centre

A Sian on a hill

Looking out over eastern O'ahu

Honolulu at dusk

Honolulu downtown

If anyone knows a big town WITHOUT an Irish pub let me know.

Our 'ride'. It was pretty crap.

31/1/2007 Some stuff on O'ahu.

30/1/2007-Us, Sunset beach, North Shore

30/1/2007

Some small waves somewhere on O'ahu's famous North shore. Too messy to surf though.

29/1/2007

The weather did clear and presented us with Waikiki beach, which we spent all of about 1 hour on, the whole week we were there.....

29/1/2007

The weather sent a welcome to Hawaii party!

Ballarat

Tom's attempts to re-fill the lake were futile.

Hollie, a damm cute pup belonging to Emma and Franc.

An old piece of litter from the lake bed

Sarah and Jess in Ballarat

27/12/06 Ballarat

Another one of Lake Wendouree

27/12/06 Ballarat-100k's from Melbourne

The drought is so bad here that this lake used for the 1956 Olympics is completely dry. Ever walked across a lake?

25/12/06

Kevin and Amanda's view of Melby, or part of it anyway

Chirstmas Day! A new outfit

3/3/07

Tom's Santa beard tried to divert attention from his bad hair day.

A rainy night.......

11/12/06 Hot Hot Hot

Melbourne managed to equal a record set in December 1953 yesterday, the mercury hit 42.1 degrees C, and bushfires are destroying large areas of Victoria, about 200,000 hectares so far. So not good.

Whilst the sensible thing would be to go to the beach we found ourselves sweating (along with the Aussies I might add) trying to have a picnic as BBQs are banned, fire risk, we also shared our food with about 500 flies, nice. After two hours we headed back to the air-conditioned heaven of our apartment. They forcast a cool change and it arrived at about 6pm taking it down from 42 to 22 degrees in 40 minutes, if you think the weather in England is odd.........

December 9th 2006

Bushfires raging across Voctoria have meant Melbourne's CBD looks like this, smells like a bonfire and best to stay indoors......compare to the picture below.