They have photons in Australia!

Purty Fraserness

Bow-thingy from the wreck of the Maheno. I could have photographed it for hours.

The wreck that is, not the bow-thingy.

And I kind of did find time to fit in a picture or two

Or four.

Fine, five.

Shiny beach

The beach was graded so slowly going out it pretty much left a mirror. At night I could make out the reflection of the southern cross, which was pretty damn amazing.

yeesh, alright, six Maheno shots. I swear it's the last one

Sunnyness just up the steps from the Champange Pools. Saw a humpback from up here

Indian Head, still on Fraser. Saw dolphins from up here

It was the weekend of a huge fishing competition, and the sand in the Indian Head bypass got churned into powder by the boat trailer traffic. Boats get stuck, spectactors/traffic victims pull up a chair and bust out the esky, and hilarity ensues. Adam, Brandon, and Jo(h?)n model the aussie classic look: VB in hand.

The parking lot on the southern side of the bypass.

Truck towing a truck towing a truck towing a boat. Bogen (Aussie for redneck) leading the charge, and yelling at ranger, off-frame, to get out of way. Ranger doesn't. Crowd chants 'Ranger's a wanker'. Also note rainbow.

Big dipper! Silly thing doesn't know its the southern hemisphere!

Post-sunrise at Fraser. Nowhere near as cool as the previous days, but someone was slow with the showering.

Lake McKenzie. Totally freshwater, crystal clear, colder'n hell. One of the most tranquil spots I've been.

Lake McKenzie plus Ben.

A pair of the glasshouse mountains. I'm too lazy to grab my map, but I think that's Beerwah on the left, and.. not Beerwah on the right. Best name was 'Tibrogargan', which we hiked the next day.

Lorikeet lookin' scruffy at the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Did that koala... wink at me?

Koala with indigestion

Wombat!

Wombutt!

Finally checked 'mom and baby koala' off the aussie to-do list.

Ben with sheep, sheepdogs, sheepman.

Bris-vegas, baby

Yo.

Sunset from the lighthouse at Byron Bay. Easternmost point of Aussie mainland. Pointy bit in the mountain range is Mount Warning, the first place in Oz light hits. Was all set to hike it (leave at 3am), but found some bedbugs that night. kind of killed the four hours I had to sleep and i nixed the hike.

Arguably the even more easternmost point of Australia. gotta check the google maps.