Travel-World Photography
This Part 2 contain a trip along Great Ocean Road (including The Twelve Apostles, a nature walk, kenguroos, koala, roadside art), street life, aboriginal art, Immigration Museum, and Melbourne sweets!
Melbourne Pt2
Map of The Great Ocean Road. Note location of Cape Otway relative to Melbourne, about 225 km.
On the trip we met an Asian lady, who asked if we knew Forname Lastname in Norway. Yes indeed, next door neighbour and good friend!
Kenguroos in the wild
On the back (only usable) feet
Jumping along
Koala sleeping during daytime
Roadside art, made out of trees with a chainsaw
Fantasy figure I
Fantasy figure II
Elvis ?
Roadside view
Rainforest walk I
Rainforest walk II
Rainforest walk III
Rainforest walk IV
Dense undergrowth
Big ferns I
Big ferns II
Big ferns III
Rich flowers
The terrain further down the coast
The famed "Twelve Apostles" sea stacks (that only counts to 8!)
Our Aussie guide
Four of the Apostles
Looking South-West
Looking North-East
Another view North-East
Melbourne Pt2-31
The ocean is digging tunnels
Here is the "bridge" after the fall down, stranding two anonymous lowers
The clipper Lord Ard had been underway 3 months fra Europe towards Melbourne, just 200 km away
During heavy fog the captain managed to sail through this "gate" between the cliffs and saved everybody!
Nice beach, but cold water in the Southern Ocean!
In finance, a black swan is an unpredictable, very rare event with potentially catastrophic consequences. Here is the real bird
Street view
ShoppIng street
Street market
Another street market
Hardwood pieces
Artist drawings
The artist at work
In Australia, opal mines are a big industry
Opal display
Sonja makes a selection
The seller is happy for the money
Museum of aboriginal art
Aboriginal pattern I
Aboriginal pattern II
Aboriginal pattern III
Aboriginal pattern IV
Aboriginal wooden figures I
Aboriginal wooden figures II
Entrance to the Immigaration Museum. The early immigrants were convict shipped from England
Letter home to mother in 1902
Coach loaded for travel to the interior
An aboriginal with four white men
After dinner with "fish and reef", window shopping for sweets
Window shopping for sweets II
Window shopping for sweets III
Window shopping for sweets IV
And at last, the conference dinner venue
Petter and Sonja at the conference in System Engineering
At the airport with friends
