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“Living in Brisbane for a year on a Work and Holiday Visa”
From Australia (2011-2012), posted by Arlo Midgett on 3/28/2012 (200 items)
- Our neighborhood’s cats are so friendly!
- Even if they don’t quite know what to think of Oksana.
- Bush turkeys acting like they own the place
- Spiderweb
- This picture is actually right-side up
- 10 KILOGRAMS?
- I think Alaska’s got ’em beat on totem poles
- Turtle
- Vying for the sunny spot
- Turtle replaced by bird
- Bush turkey
- Reflections in the pond
- Time out in the shade
- Bonsai tree
- Puffy and white
- Fly-by
- Fern
- The swirl in the lower left reminds me a of galaxy
- Inside the tropical dome
- Tropical jungle in the middle of the botanic gardens
- Closeup on a leaf
- Cactus
- Oksana opening up her birthday present
- First boot
- A visit from Andrey
- Brisbane (city) botanical gardens
- Some sort of dragon…
- Blue fruit-seed thing
- Bronies down under!
- What are the legalities of THAT?
- They got bike stations like this all over the city. Just hop on and drop it off at a…
- Cool idea, very supportive of bikes in Brisbane
- Anzac Square
- Waiting out the rain
- Waiting out the rain, deciding if it’s worth paying for tickets to the Lonely Pine Ko…
- Bats!
- Another dragon
- Can’t tell if tired… …or under-caffeinated.
- Does this tail make me look fat?
- Koala-back ride
- Awake!
- giddyup!
- Koalas
- Don’t let go
- There is no collective noun for koalas. We should make one up.
- Call him "Radar."
- Drop bear about to pounce…
- Andrey
- What?
- Whaaat?
- Oksana with a bundle of koalas
- Claws!
- Closeup
- Head on
- Profile
- Om nom nom
- A little derpy
- Hung over
- Silhouette
- Among the food
- I like dragons
- Monitor (big)
- Monitor (small and fast)
- Cassowary
- Croc
- The petting pen
- ‘Roo
- "Hey, listen up!"
- "Stop touching me!"
- Emu closeup
- Emu
- Lazy kangaroo
- Chillin’
- Sup, roo
- Kangaroo collision
- The kangaroo resting pen
- On the move
- Such an interesting animal!
- In the resting area — off limits
- Chillin’
- Among the trees
- Liar! You don’t have any food for me!
- Personal encounter
- This is what they’re after
- Not shy
- Scratchies!
- The Sylvester Stallone of kangaroos!
- Just finished my workout
- At their level
- Claws
- Comparison
- tickle, tickle
- That doesn’t look comfortable
- The hot dogs don’t compare well to Chile’s.
- Hung over
- Nap time
- Snuggle
- Bonk
- I think I’ll just shimmy up this here tree
- All the way up to the top!
- Turtle
- Another hung over koala
- Dingo!
- Kookaburra
- Sheep dog
- Sheep
- Lorikeets
- Lorikeet
- Filling the trees
- Waiting…
- Here comes the food!
- Invasion of the lorikeets
- They waited in line to get to hold the food trays and, for their efforts, got pooped …
- Gravity works
- Smacked with the psychedelic color stick
- On top of a feeder
- Posing for a picture
- New Year’s Eve, 2011, Brisbane
- You can tell the Ferris wheel is in motion
- The view from our balcony in St. Lucia
- Not much to see at the moment, but there was a laser-light show projected on the oran…
- multi-color
- Finale
- Seems a bit…low
- Smoke in the air
- Is that another fireworks show behind that building?
- Got a group photo just before the show ended
- Aftermath
- Broad Beach on the Gold Coast
- Testing the water
- Kite surfers
- Heading back in
- Sunset in Brisbane, from St. Lucia
- Yeah, the bats don’t come out early enough for good photos…
- Full moon
- At the Eagle Farms Market
- 100% pure orange juice… yum!
- Thunderstorm passing over Brisbane
- That isn’t a hat. That’s what we pulled out of our dryer’s lint trap after we moved i…
- Lunch with Dirk and Paulien in Southbank a couple weeks ago. (Met them in Laos/Vietna…
- Monday night bowling. It’s a thing now.
- Our balls
- Most likely my best game of bowling ever
- It’s probably a good thing that alcohol is too expensive here. This stuff is GOOD.
- What is that, Venus and Jupiter? It was March 28th and I remember a lot of people tw…
- Aussie advertising probably wouldn’t fly in the U.S.
- Double rainbow you-know-the-rest
- Insert Memory Card
- The doctors are so far away…
- One of the reasons Oksana lugged the DSLR down to the market was because she wanted a…
- squeet, squeet, squeet
- Iron Woman
- Multiple irons in the fire
- Is that the right plural for passion fruit?
- This is my reading spot while Oksana does the shopping
- One week’s $17 haul
- Neighborhood flowers
- Things are blooming year-round here in Brisbane
- Tallebudgera Creek emptying into the Pacific at Burleigh Head
- ‘yakers at Burleigh Head
- Hanging with Helen on the Gold Coast
- Jim is kind of boring.
- Oksana just wouldn’t give up on her travel pajamas. Believe it or not, she wore thes…
- I’ve had this shirt for a year. Had I noticed the tag before?
- Maybe I’m just homesick, but playing online games with your friends on a Google+ Hang…
- The morning of Venus’ Transit couldn’t have been better
- Brisbane Planetarium
- At the Brisbane Planetarium
- Setting up the shot
- We arrived literally within one minute of the transit’s beginning
- Everyone was on their phone at the beginning. "Can you see it yet?" "…
- Easy viewing
- Lots of people were doing this; not many people had steady enough hands (or the patie…
- This guy was very friendly and generous with his telescope.
- 62.5x magnification. You can see the sunspots on the right.
- (2x200mm ) Borrowed a guy’s flat filter and Oksana held it over my lens. Best I coul…
- This guy came all the way from the UK
- This guy flew up from Sydney the night before because the forecast there was for clou…
- I guess you don’t need a really expensive filter for your camera…
- My favorite shot of the day. The owner of the scope was suitably impressed. "V…
- This guy had the biggest telescope (if not necessarily the equipment for solar viewin…
- There’s a chance we were in the background on the evening news, but we didn’t have a …
- Packing up my camera gear
- One last chance to check out the sky…
- The "Atlanta Pork" McRib
- Foot fashion in Australia
- Oksana in our 10-year anniversary weekend getaway room
- Room service, you say? (The on-site restaurant was great, but strangely the room serv…
- You can just barely catch a glimpse of the Glasshouse Mountains from our balcony — w…
- This. Ice cream. Is. AMAZING! Burnt fig, honeycomb, and Caramel!
- Moffat Beach
- Wait, this lamb burger has HOW many calories?? (800!)
- I want to know the story behind this bumper sticker! The design looks as old as the …
- Glasshouse Mountains from the scenic overlook
- Oksana at the Glasshouse Mountains
- Glasshouse Mountains
- Mount Coonowrin (I think?)
- Along the 800m loop
- Cool bark, bro
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