1. 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.  ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. Day 1
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A 3-hour drive south down the coast with a late afternoon stop to climb the Canal Rocks and then our first night at the rented house in Dunsborough. ...

5. Fishing at Blue Hole
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Tim went on a 4-wheel-drive overnight fishing excursion on the beach at Blue Hole. See locations marked on a Google Map here.  ...

6. Holiday in Margaret River Apr2009
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... lighthouse), staying two nights in a rustic cottage outside the town of Margaret River. ...

7. 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.  ...

8. Just Another Sunset-01Nov2008
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With the sunset moving later into the evening after changing to Daylight Savings Time, we're enjoying walks to the beach after supper.  Here's photos from a Saturday night sunset at Warnbro Beach. ...

9. Kalbarri to Perth
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A variety of photos from the 2-day drive back from Kalbarri with an overnight stay at the old Priory Hotel in Dongara. ...

10. Karl Goes to Camp 03Mar2009
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Karl went with his Year 6 class to a camp on a beach near Busselton for 3 days and 2 nights.  Other than coming back with a large gash on his toe and not getting any good sleep because of others' raucous ...

11. Mom S in WA - Day 09
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Not much to report as we've been taking it pretty easy the last few days.  Ann has returned to the States and we've slowed our pace a bit to catch up on sleep and housekeeping and card playing. Tonight ...

12. Moon Smiles 01Dec2008
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Photos from our Warnbro Beach of a rare occurrence in the night sky at dusk of a "smiling face" formed by the crescent moon and Venus (left) and Jupiter (right) as the eyes.  Read more about it in Tim's ...

13. Peaceful Bay fishing
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As the surf was too big for the kids to fish while at Conspicuous Cliffs, we went to a slightly less wild beach nearer to our campsite for one night of fishing. See locations marked on a Google Map here. ...

14. Pemberton's Karri Forests
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We stayed one night in Pemberton and then explored the forests with a scenic drive and Lanette's courageous attempt to climb a 75 metre (246 ft) giant karri tree. See locations marked on a Google Map ...

15. Perth 07July2008
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... flowers are in bloom.  After a great supper at Sizzler, we went to take night-time photos of the Perth CBD from across the Swan River. (Peter wasn't with us as he's at a Lutheran youth camp for 4 ...

16. Pt. Peron 16Aug2008 (Peter)
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... full moon rose.  Later that night we had a lunar eclipse.  ...

17. 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.  ...

18. 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. ...

19. Wogarno Homestead
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We stayed two nights on this working sheep station in the Outback about 8 hours from our house and about 40 km from the goldfields at Mt. Magnet.  ...

20. 1st Day of School: IMG_0553
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IMG_0553: Boys doing their first night of homework (i.e., vacation's over!).  ...

21. Perth 07July2008: IMG_0914
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IMG_0914: Perth at night from across the Swan River.  ...

22. Perth 07July2008: Perth_Panorama2
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Perth_Panorama2: Perth at night from across the Swan River.  ...

23. Wogarno Homestead: Wogarno Station_4
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... open, it got down to 5°C (low 40s F) the first night, but was a comfortable 15° the next night.  ...

24. New House 06Sept2008: dining
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dining: Larger dining room than we need.  Wood-burning stove for freezing winter nights.  Hallway leads left to 2 bedrooms, laundry, and toilet/bathroom (separate rooms).  Hall leads right ...

25. Melbourne City Oct2008: Royal Exhibition Building - night
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Royal Exhibition Building - night: This was the view from my Melbourne CBD apartment looking toward the Royal Exhibition Building.  ...

26. Melbourne City Oct2008: FlindersStation_night
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FlindersStation_night ...

27. Moon Smiles 01Dec2008: moon_smile_night2
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moon_smile_night2: Moon with Venus (left) and Jupiter (right)  ...

28. Moon Smiles 01Dec2008: pt_kennedy_night
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pt_kennedy_night: Whilst taking photos at dusk of the smiling moon, I shot this looking south down the beach toward Port Kennedy.  ...

29. Karl's Graduation 15Dec2008: class
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class: The Junior School Choir. (Karl's not in this photo).  The banner shows the night's theme of "Crossing Bridges".  ...

30. Consipicuous Cliffs fishing: Conspicuous Cliffs WA 33
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Conspicuous Cliffs WA 33: We did a sausage sizzle on the second night at Conspicuous Cliffs (a cool night!). (Mark, Narelle, Lanette, Karl, and Dane) ...

31. Holiday in Margaret River Apr2009: Margaret River Holiday Village_2
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Margaret River Holiday Village_2: Our rustic cottage for two nights ...

32. Adelaide Day 2-May2009: Norma's Place - Tanunda_6
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Norma's Place - Tanunda_6: Hanging over the fireplace at Norma's Place in German: "Guardian angel faithfully holds watch in this house day and night." ...

33. Canberra - July 2009: Civic - Canberra at night from Telstra Tower
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Civic - Canberra at night from Telstra Tower ...

34. Kalbarri to Perth: Priory Hotel - Dongara
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Priory Hotel - Dongara: A hotel first used in 1881 which has been expanded over the years as it served as a Catholic priory and later a girls school.  Now it's been restored and we enjoyed a night the ...

35. Perth CBD at Night panorama
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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.  ...

36. First-time Surfers
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... required). My Shed Men mates have a tradition of an annual surfing competition but the weather didn't cooperate last year. I'd better pause and explain "Shed Men"... Every fortnight about 8-10 blokes ...

37. Peter's 16th B-day and Formal
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It's Peter's 16th birthday this morning!  He celebrated it at midnight as he and I were driving home from the school's Year 11 & 12 "Formal" (think "prom").  We bought Peter a new suit so he could ...

38. Hockey... Aussie style
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Tonight we went to a hockey game.  Australia vs. New Zealand in an international test match played right here in Rockingham.  Not the "ice" version like we'd prefer back in Minnesota.  This was "field ...

39. Peaceful Bay Camping
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... to explain the rules.)  We also played several rounds of the card game "Wizard". The overnight 4WD beach fishing adventure was "on" again as it was last year.  We jump in about 6 four-wheel drive trucks ...

40. A visit from the cousins
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... for enjoying touring activities and hitting our beach. Straight away the first night, the blokes all headed to the WACA cricket grounds for a Twenty20 match (short, one night version of cricket) between ...

41. Our Christmas
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... put it together in the shed late at night. Along with the dart board from Uncle Kurt and family, the shed which we never park in has become a bit of a game room now. Boxing Day follows right after Christmas ...

42. Merry Christmas!
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... Eve service tonight (playing Isaiah and a shepherd). We all went to the "Carols by Candlelight" event held outdoors at our church's other campus a couple of Sunday evenings ago.  Peter played trumpet ...

43. Pedal Prix 2009 Video
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... went along.  We had our Pedal Prix Celebration night tonight with awards, thank you's, slideshows and this video...   <script type="text/javascript" src="http://wanimoto.clearspring.com/o/46928cc51133af17/4b152031d23fa317/46928cc51133af17/1a50df65/-cpid/85ac6590851b9263/-EMH/360/-EMW/648/widget.js"></script> ...

44. Peter receives big honour
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... The presentation was made at the Year 12 valedictory (graduation) ceremony last night at the Mandurah Performing Arts Centre (about 25 minutes south of here).  All of the Year 10s and 11s are required ...

45. First Hot Day of Summer
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... wake up at 3:30am tonight to catch the Minnesota Gophers football game at Penn State (if I can find it broadcast somewhere on the Internet).  Apparently they had 6 inches of snow on Friday and were expecting ...

46. Holiday in Southwest WA
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... shops, lighthouses and karri forests.  We had a wonderful 2-night stay in a rented house in Dunsborough from which we ventured out each day. See the placemarks on the map below which will give you the ...

47. Heading East for Pedal Prix
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... take us across the barren Nullarbor Plain on one of the longest straight sections of road in the world. The race is from Saturday noon to Sunday noon. I'll fly back home Sunday night. You can catch ...

48. Peter's Braces
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... tonight. While we're on the topic of the boys, here's a picture of the 3 of them in their Aussie cricket shirts.  (The biggest series of cricket matches of the year - "The Ashes" - are being played right ...

49. Eastern States Update
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I'm on Day 7 of our ten day trip to the the eastern Australian states.  We're in Melbourne tonight staying at a youth hostel and it's the first chance I've had to get Internet access ($1 for 15 minutes) ...

50. Surprise Canberra Ski Trip Upcoming for Tim
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... I've been asked to fill in on short notice.  I had one night to consider whether to go or not. How do you say no to an opportunity like this? This is an every other year trip east taken by Year 11 and ...