1. Flowers
(Phocagallery / Flowers)

The wildflowers are blooming from August to October in Western Australia (spring).  We timed it just right with our trip north to Kalbarri. Some photos in this site are also of some wildflowers grown ...

2. Holiday July 2008
(Phocagallery / Holiday July 2008)

Photos from our holiday in July 2008 to the Western Australian Outback including overnights at New Norcia and Wogarno sheep station.  ...

3. Indian Ocean Coast
(Phocagallery / Indian Ocean Coast)

Photos from various stops along the Indian Ocean coast between Cervantes and Kalbarri in Western Australia ...

4. Kalbarri Holiday Sept2009
(Phocagallery / Kalbarri Holiday Sept2009)

Photos from our 5-day holiday north to Kalbarri, Western Australia ...

5. Kalbarri National Park
(Phocagallery / Kalbarri National Park)

Kalbarri National Park is about a 9-hour drive north up the coast from Perth, Western Australia.  The main feature of the park is the Murchison River Gorge. ...

6. LWLC
(Phocagallery / LWLC)

Photos from around the campus at Living Waters Lutheran College in Rockingham, Western Australia. To choose any of these photos to print, click here. ...

7. Mom S in WA - Day 05
(Phocagallery / Mom S in WA - Day 05)

... lunch the rest of us headed into Fremantle.  We toured the Western Australian Museum of Shipwrecks. We met Lanette at Kaleeya Hospital and showed Carla and Ann around the hospital.  Then we went back ...

8. Southern Coast Summer Trip Jan2009
(Phocagallery / Southern Coast Summer Trip Jan2009)

Photos from our summer holiday to the southern coast of Western Australia with 7 nights of camping at Peaceful Bay and several day trips. See locations marked on a Google Map here.  ...

9. Southwest Holiday Oct2009
(Phocagallery / Southwest Holiday Oct2009)

A 2-night holiday with the Grubens to the southwest corner of Western Australia with stops in Bunbury, Busselton, Dunsborough, Margaret River and Augusta. ...

10. Wogarno Art
(Phocagallery / Wogarno Art)

The husband & wife owners of Wogarno sheep station are active in supporting the "arts".  They've hosted concerts on their station, including one with the Western Australia Symphony Orchestra playing ...

11. Flght to Perth Australia: Arrival in Perth - Read the Ad
(Phocagallery / Arrival in Perth - Read the Ad)

Arrival in Perth - Read the Ad: Arrival at Perth Airport in Western Australia. (Read the ad behind: "What are you bringing into Australia?")  ...

12. LWLC: technology
(Phocagallery / technology)

technology: One half or so of the Technology Building.  In Western Australia, the "Technology" curriculum area includes a large subset of areas including shop/woodworking, home ec and cooking, textiles ...

13. Driving Outback: Rabbit Proof Fence
(Phocagallery / Rabbit Proof Fence)

... of hordes of rabbits across the Outback to Western Australia.  Read more about these fences in Wikipedia.  ...

14. Perth Zoo 02Sept2008: DSC06749
(Phocagallery / DSC06749)

DSC06749: This area at the zoo was made to look like Western Australia's famous landmark "Wave Rock".  We were pretending to be surfing.  ...

15. Busselton day trip 07Oct2008: Dalyellup WA_2
(Phocagallery / Dalyellup WA_2)

Dalyellup WA_2: On the way to Busselton, we stopped off at Dalyellup Beach which is near to the only other Lutheran school in Western Australia.  We really liked this beach!  ...

16. Busselton day trip 07Oct2008: Busselton WA
(Phocagallery / Busselton WA)

Busselton WA: Busselton, Western Australia  ...

17. Albany: Albany - Amity ship 01
(Phocagallery / Albany - Amity ship 01)

Albany - Amity ship 01: Replica of the ship "Amity" in Albany harbour which brought Albany's first settlers here in 1826 as the first British settlement in Western Australia (3 years before Perth). ...

18. Fishing at Blue Hole: Sunrise-Blue Hole WA 30_2
(Phocagallery / Sunrise-Blue Hole WA 30_2)

Sunrise-Blue Hole WA 30_2: Dividing up the group's catch (all filleted) of about 160 fish including silver bream, herring, tailor, flathead, whiting, and "salmon trout".  We also had one stingray.

19. Melbourne - July 2009: Healesville Sanctuary - Victoria_3
(Phocagallery / Healesville Sanctuary - Victoria_3)

Healesville Sanctuary - Victoria_3: Feeding a western grey kangaroo (typically much tamer than the red kangaroos). ...

20. Melbourne - July 2009: Etihad Stadium - Melbourne
(Phocagallery / Etihad Stadium - Melbourne)

Etihad Stadium - Melbourne: Etihad Stadium is a retractable-roof stadium of 50,000+ seats in Melbourne.  We saw an Aussie Rules Football match between the Western Bulldogs and Collingwood Magpies. ...

21. Melbourne - July 2009: Etihad Stadium - Melbourne_3
(Phocagallery / Etihad Stadium - Melbourne_3)

Etihad Stadium - Melbourne_3: The primary way of scoring in footy... The Western Bulldogs player in the circle is attempting to kick the ball from over 50 meters (54 yards) through the middle goal posts ...

22. Day 3: Grubens discover Browne's iced coffee Chill
(Phocagallery / Grubens discover Browne's iced coffee Chill)

Grubens discover Browne's iced coffee Chill: Iced Coffee is hugely popularly in Western Australia and the Grubens have caught on to it. ...

23. Kings Park - Perth Oct2009: Roe Gardens
(Phocagallery / Roe Gardens)

Roe Gardens: These gardens exhibit wildflowers from all over Western Australia - many of which we've seen on our recent holidays. ...

24. Perth CBD at Night panorama
(Panoramic Photos/Panoramic Photos)

Perth, Western Australia, from Kings Park on Australia Day, 26 January 2010 Scroll down to bottom to see a full-length view. Click and drag left-right-up-down on the photo to move around in it.  ...

25. Perth's Australia Day fireworks 2010 panorama
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Australia Day Fireworks - Perth, Western Australia, from Kings Park, 26 January 2010 Scroll down to bottom to see a full-length view. Click and drag left-right-up-down on the photo to move around in ...

26. Boranup Forest - Margaret River panorama
(Panoramic Photos/Panoramic Photos)

Karri Trees in Boranup Forest near Margaret River, WA, 8 April 2010 This is one of our favourite spots in WA - a certain curve in the highway with a place to pull off - but it's really hard to capture ...

27. Red Bull Air Race panorama
(Panoramic Photos/Panoramic Photos)

Red Bull Air Race over Swan River - Perth, Western Australia, 17 April 2010 I took this series of photos as one plane entered the race course starting gate on the left.  You can see the same plane at ...

28. Hockey... Aussie style
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... hockey", although it's just "hockey" here.  By some accounts, hockey is one of the top 5 sports in Australia.  It's popularly played by both men and women, boys and girls - and in fact, in Western Australia, ...

29. A visit from the cousins
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... Western Australia and South Australia. It was a near sellout crowd that saw some rather exciting cricket even though our side fell short. We pretty much kept to the Perth region hitting many of our favourite ...

30. The Pinnacles Panorama 02
(Panoramic Photos/Panoramic Photos)

The Pinnacles National Park, Western Australia, 3 October 2009 Scroll down to bottom to see a full-length view. Click and drag left-right-up-down on the photo to move around in it.    ...

31. Pinnacles National Park Panorama 01
(Panoramic Photos/Panoramic Photos)

The Pinnacles National Park, Western Australia, 3 October 2009 Scroll down to bottom to see a full-length view. Click and drag left-right-up-down on the photo to move around in it.    ...

32. Murchison River Gorge - Kalbarri Panorama 02
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Murchison River Gorge - Kalbarri National Park, Western Australia, 30 September 2009 Scroll down to bottom to see a full-length view. Click and drag left-right-up-down on the photo to move around in ...

33. Murchison River Gorge - Kalbarri Panorama 01
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Murchison River Gorge - Kalbarri National Park, Western Australia, 30 September 2009 Scroll down to bottom to see a full-length view. Click and drag left-right-up-down on the photo to move around in ...

34. Southwest WA tourism rates high in world ranking
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

  The southwest corner of Western Australia has become a very much favoured destination for our family.  And, according to one source, it's not just our opinion.  The Lonely Planet travel ...

35. More on the Aussie language
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... (Western Australians insist that Queenslanders do talk with a different, slower accent).  But, as with anywhere else, there are words and phrases unique to regions. The other site I found very interesting ...

36. First Hot Day of Summer
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... 6 more inches on Saturday. I miss the deep, cold winter of Minnesota, but I can definitely handle the consistently dry, blue sky summer days of Western Australia.  We should be getting our next significant ...

37. Gruben Visit Wrap-up
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... Yet, on a map of our state of Western Australia, the area we saw looks so incredibly small. Our photos show the diversity of spring-time wildflowers we saw over the past two weeks.  And we were able ...

38. Holiday in Southwest WA
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

Last week we did one more getaway with the Grubens as we headed south to the Margaret River region of Western Australia.  This region is known for its top surfing beaches, wineries, caves, galleries and ...

39. Kalbarri Holiday
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

We've returned from our 5-day holiday to Kalbarri, Western Australia, with Lanette's Mom and Dad. It was a great experience to see the incredible natural landscapes of the Indian Ocean coast and, particularly, ...

40. Photo Puzzle - Animal Crossing
(Photo Puzzle/Photo Puzzle)

Nullarbor Road Crossing Sign from Tim's Pedal Prix trip in September 2009...   This is a photo of an animal crossing road sign on the Eyre Highway on the Nullarbor Plain at the border between Western ...

41. The giant footy ovals
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

Last month while in Melbourne with our students, we were thrilled to attend an AFL footy game (Australian Rules Football). And it was a definitely a huge thrill. The match was between the Western Bulldogs ...

42. Eastern States Update
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... above.  Kids took lessons in the mornings of the first two days.  All of them were newbies as Western Australians have no chance of seeing snow unless they come over here. We're in Melbourne for the ...

43. Story of 2 WA Lutheran Schools
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

On Friday, I attended the first-ever Western Australia Conference on Lutheran Education (WACLE - or "wackle") near Bunbury WA. When we were living in Colorado and in Minnesota, I was used to attending ...

44. Snakes in Australia
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... on an elevated walkway when he and others spotted a coastal carpet python (or sometimes also called a southwestern carpet python) just about 8 feet below the walkway crawling on the rocks. At 4-5 feet ...

45. End of WA Mining Boom
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

There was a story on the BBC News web site today about the end of the 17 consecutive years of economic growth in Australia, largely fueled by the mining industry of Western Australia.  Read the story here. ...

46. Back At Blogging - Finally!
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... economic downturn is trickling into Australia with much less impact it seems than in the States, although unemployment has "jumped" to 4.2% in Western Australia. One response by the Aussie government ...

47. Claxton Shield - Game 2
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... in the WBC since they've got 7 Twins prospects on the provisional 45-man roster. Not sure if the well of talent is soon to run dry here in Western Australia.  26 major or minor league players have come ...

48. Karl Gets a Twin's Autograph
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... Luke is a Perth native who attended the Western Australia Institute of Sports which has produced 26 major and minor league baseball players in the last 10 years. (Unfortunately, WAIS is dropping its support ...

49. First Day of 2009 School Year Down Under
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... In Western Australia, the "Technology" learning area includes home ec, wood/metal shop, and computers.  Most of our HOLAs are responsible for a learning area within just one of our subschools (eg, Middle ...

50. Hot Down Here; Cold Up There
(Blogs/Tim's Blog)

... went to a big cricket match at the WACA in Perth... Western Australia v. Queensland in a short "20Twenty" one day match (lasts less than 3 hours).  At the 6:15 pm game time it was still over 100°F and ...