Australian Pictures
My pictures from Australia are now sorted and online. Enjoy a bunch of new photo galleries: Brisbane, Frasier Island, People, Sydney, the Outback and the coastline, the Whitsunday islands, a wildlife reserve.
Here are some of my favorite pictures from this batch:
October 7th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Whoa! So dingoes do eat people’s babies. The CDC has a record of a domestic dog killing a baby in the crib, so it’s not unrealistic.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
is that a dingo? I thought it was a wart hog.
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October 7th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
The statute is not of a dingo. Dingos look exactly like dogs, and they were all over the beach of Frasier Island, though I didn’t take any pictures. Just imagine a dog.
She’s probably referring to these:
http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/09/02/australia-frasier-island-2008/dsc09532-2/
http://www.rumorsdaily.com/2008/09/02/australia-frasier-island-2008/dsc09534-2/
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October 7th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
you held a koala!!? don’t cute things disintegrate when you come into contact with them?
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October 7th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
No, they just become much, much less cute.
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October 8th, 2008 at 10:40 am
I was referring to the signs. Which are funny. My friend who also went to Australia said the dingoes were scary.
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October 8th, 2008 at 10:41 am
We stayed out of their way, they stayed out of our way. I didn’t have any interactions with them.
Cassowaries, though, are terrifying.
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October 8th, 2008 at 11:47 am
I think I took that same exact photo of the Three Sisters.
As for koalas, one thing I learned in Australia is that the locals really consider them to be filthy animals. We had a trivia question a few months ago that asked what to animals were on the Australian seal. A lot of people put koalas, but I remembered their status. We won with the Kangaroo and Emu.
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October 8th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Koalas can be vicious even if “tamed.” These pictures are very nostalgia provoking. The shipwreck on Frasier island…. Our bus had a flat on the highway… the beach is a designated national highway… and we all worked as fast as we could to fix that flat before the tide came in. First and only time I think that I can say that.
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October 8th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
That koala just wanted to fall asleep. He was not particularly vicious. His name was Teddy.
I drove a four wheel drive jeep across Frasier Island; driving on the beach is a lot of fun.
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