1. ACLE3 Conference at MCG
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Photos from the Australian Conference on Lutheran Education at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds (MCG)  ...

2. Adelaide Day 1-May2009
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Lanette and Tim escaped to Adelaide and South Australia's Barossa Valley for a few nights to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversay (25 March 1989).  We flew from Perth to Adelaide, landing at about 3pm.  ...

3. Adelaide Day 2-May2009
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Lanette and Tim escaped to Adelaide and South Australia's Barossa Valley for a few nights to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversay (25 March 1989). The first night was at an original 1850s German settler's ...

4. Adelaide Day 3-May2009
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Lanette and Tim escaped to Adelaide and South Australia's Barossa Valley for a few nights to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversay (25 March 1989).  Day 3 was spent walking the streets and parks of the ...

5. Australia Day 26Jan2009
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We headed to the South Perth foreshore of the Swan River for the 25th annual "Skyworks" fireworks display.

6. Australia Day Fireworks 2010
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26 January 2010 photos of the Perth SkyWorks fireworks show over the Swan River viewed from Kings Park.  Fireworks are programmed to music for nearly 30 minutes and shot up from several barges in the river ...

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8. Christmas Day 2008
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Photos from our first Christmas in Australia including: 1) opening presents, 2) taking family photos outside, and 3) gathering with several families at our pastor's house. ...

9. Dane's 9th Birthday
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Dane's birthday is on the 26th of April.  Due to our going on holiday, we did the cake and presents a couple of days early.  Dane requested a chocolate cake with the map of Australia on it (Tim added the ...

10. Flght to Perth Australia
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Just the highlights of the trip. To choose any of these photos to print, click here.

11. Flowers
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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 ...

12. Hockeyroos 14Feb2010
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Photos from an international test match played in Rockingham on 14 February 2010 between the national teams of Australia (Hockeyroos) and New Zealand (All Blacks). ...

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

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

15. Kalbarri Holiday Sept2009
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Photos from our 5-day holiday north to Kalbarri, Western Australia ...

16. Kalbarri National Park
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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. ...

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

18. Melbourne Oct2008
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Photos from Tim's week at the Australian Conference on Lutheran Education in Melbourne, Australia, 30 Sept to 4 Oct 2008.  ...

19. Mom S in WA - Day 05
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... 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 ...

20. Pedal Prix Sept2009
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Tim traveled east to Murray Bridge, South Australia, with 50+ students who were racing in a 24-hour international human-powered-vehicle race.  The college sent 4 teams/vehicles.  This is the 10th year ...

21. Perth Heat Baseball 07Feb2009
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The boys and I went to the biggest domestic baseball competition in Australia - Game 2 of the 3-game Grand Final of the Claxton Shield.  Perth Heat beat New South Wales Patriots to tie the series.  Dane ...

22. Southern Coast Summer Trip Jan2009
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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.  ...

23. Southwest Coast
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On day 1 of our summer holiday, we made a day of seeing the sites between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin and the Margaret River region in the very southwest corner of Australia. See locations marked ...

24. Southwest Holiday Oct2009
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A 2-night holiday with the Grubens to the southwest corner of Western Australia with stops in Bunbury, Busselton, Dunsborough, Margaret River and Augusta. ...

25. Surfers at Prevelly 25Apr2009
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We saw some big-time surfing at the mouth of the Margaret River near Prevelly.  These beaches are known as possibly the best surf beaches in Australia. ...

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27. S_Australia_May09_Day2
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28. S_Australia_May09_Day3
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29. Wogarno Art
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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 ...

30. Flght to Perth Australia: Dane journaling
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Dane journaling: Dane did a lot of journaling during the flights to Australia. Watch his blog for a series of entries we'll be adding.  ...

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

32. LWLC: MS_SS
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MS_SS: The Middle School (Yrs 6-9) is the larger building at center. This is where Peter has most classes. The Senior School is hidden mostly behind the Middle School building. Can you see the 4 Australian ...

33. LWLC: technology
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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 ...

34. Driving Outback: Rabbit Proof Fence
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... of hordes of rabbits across the Outback to Western Australia.  Read more about these fences in Wikipedia.  ...

35. Driving Outback: Great Northern Highway
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Great Northern Highway: All the way from Perth through New Norcia to Mt. Magnet, we followed the Great Northern Highway.  This is the road to the north of Australia to remote places like Broome and ...

36. Wogarno Art: Tin Man at Wogarno Station
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Tin Man at Wogarno Station: Tim found the final resting place of the Tin Man.  After all, he was from Oz, and Australia is also known as Oz (as in the way Australians say "Aussie" more like "Ozzie"). ...

37. Karl's 11th B-day: IMG_1690
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IMG_1690: Reading from his new book - "Amazing Facts About Australian Mammals".  ...

38. Perth Zoo 02Sept2008: DSC06749
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DSC06749: This area at the zoo was made to look like Western Australia's famous landmark "Wave Rock".  We were pretending to be surfing.  ...

39. Perth Royal Show 27Sept2008: Photo0024
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Photo0024: They had some Australian Army trucks and this Howitzer artillery gun exhibited.  We remembered living near Rock Island, Illinois, where Howitzer's have always been made on Arsenal Island ...

40. Perth Royal Show 27Sept2008: Photo0026
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Photo0026: Posing with our new hats bought at the Royal Show.  Lanette's is a sun hat that will prove useful this summer.  Tim bought an authentic, leather, Australian bush hat (from Lanette ...

41. ACLE3 Conference at MCG: Melbourne Cricket Ground
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Melbourne Cricket Ground: The Melbourne Cricket Ground (the "MCG" or "The G") is the holiest secular site in all of Australia.  It's role in Aussie sports history would be comparable to Yankees ...

42. Melbourne City Oct2008: Aussie Open Tennis arenas
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Aussie Open Tennis arenas: Australian Open Tennis Championships are held in January at this complex that includes 2 large arenas with retractable roofs and many other smaller tennis venues.  ...

43. Busselton day trip 07Oct2008: Dalyellup WA_2
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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!  ...

44. Busselton day trip 07Oct2008: Busselton WA
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Busselton WA: Busselton, Western Australia  ...

45. Pemberton's Karri Forests: Bicentennial Tree Climb 04
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Bicentennial Tree Climb 04: Tree climbs were created for the purpose of watching for forest fires, but this one is a tourist attraction created for the Australian bicentennial celebration in 1988.  A 75 ...

46. Albany: Albany Whaling World 06
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Albany Whaling World 06: The last of the whale chaser ships at Albany.  We had great access to roam this ship which was retired with the end of Australian whaling in 1978. ...

47. Albany: Albany Whaling World 11
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Albany Whaling World 11: Karl at the stern of the whaling ship under the Australian Red Ensign - the proper "colours" for an Australian registered ship. ...

48. Albany: Albany - Amity ship 01
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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). ...

49. Australia Day 26Jan2009: Australia Day 2009 -04
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Australia Day 2009 -04 ...

50. Australia Day 26Jan2009: Australia Day 2009 -05
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Australia Day 2009 -05 ...