Back in Queensland!

 

Jonnie is out bushwaking? 

Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia

From the desert to the tropics!  It was very warm in Darwin, sun shining.  We stayed in a backpacker's hostel.  We found out that we are not the young hippies we used to be.  It was a clean, basic room  (that means just a bed,  no TV and a shared bath) and it was air conditioned for $80!  Prices at the end of the road are always more.

 

 

Going up the Stuart Highway to Darwin

We left Ayers Rock on June 12, 2013 and headed to Alice Springs (population 27,480). 

 

A view of Alice from the top of Anzac Memorial Hill

Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas)

 

Ayers Rock

New South Wales photos, a little out of sequence!

You just can not get away from McDonald's.  They are quite nice with coffee shops with lovely pastries, but they are still McD's! I believe this one is in Grafton

 

 

Headed back to the Outback

After spending two nights is Sydney we started our trek to the outback.  Sydney was a beautiful city but still a big city and we do prefer smaller towns and locations out in the wide open spaces.  So we are headed to the Outback.  

 

 

A tribute to to the dog from a 19th century bush ballad.  A tucker box is a bushman's lunch or grub box.  This dog is protecting his masters tucker box. 

 

Sydney Opera House

It is hard to believe that two Wyoming hicks would be attending a function at the famous Sydney Opera House!  Well, we did! 
We arrived in Sydney on Monday May 27, 2013.  It was a cool, cloudy ride from Bathurst.  We found a hotel on Hotwire about 2 KM's from the opera house so we figured out how to use the train to go down to the harbor and checked out the area.  Once we got off the train the skies opened up and poured rain on us.  "Should we buy an umbrella?" someone asked.  "No, we do not need one" someone else replied.  We both looked like drowned rats, then we bought an umbrella. 

Bridge from the harbor.