August 2004 Photos

Felix reaching quarter of a million kilometres

Liam can be so embarassing sometimes

Sunsetting at Cape range park - Exmouth

This shot doesn't convey the freezing temperature

Sandy bay - Cape range park

Boat at Coral Bay

Once again we crossed the tropic

Stromatolites, the organisms that allowed humans to evolve

Very boring to watch

Shell beach - Shark Bay

4 metres deep

One of the famous dolphins at Monkey Mia

Ahh

The pelicans felt a little left out

Four on Tour + the Prince of Hutt River Province

His head

An odd place

A few pinnacles

There are thousands of them

Four on Tour + a pinnacle

HMAS Sydney memorial - Geraldton

Our hostel in Perth - Underground

The Swan Bells - Perth

Liam hard at work in Perth

Liam trying out one of the machines at the Maritime museum - Freemantle

The Maritime museum - Freemantle

Phil freezing on Rottnest Island

One of the many lakes on Rottnest

A curious Quokka - Rat like marsupial

They were pretty tame

Matt, Fran Rich, Kirsten & Phil downing Sambucca at the Deen - Perth

Fran and Kirsten feeling the power of Sambucca

Cottesloe beach - Perth

The super Pit - Kalgoorlie

The trucks are immense

The largest gold mine in Australia

They use some serious machinery

It was all too much for Rich

Self explanatory

Ridiculously boring

Ooops, thats the trouble with driving in Australia

It could have been a lot worse

Now they tell us!

Four on Tour at the SA border

The sign post at the South Australian border

Another danger - Emus

The Sturt pea a common sight in the centre of Australia

You get some impressive views at dusk

Not so dangerous

Unsealed roads create a lot of dust as you can see

Evidence of Opal mines around Coober Pedy

Inside Crocodile Harry's home

Four on Tour + Claire & Michelle in the 'Princess Room'

Four on Tour with Harry himself

View of Coober Pedy

Matt failed to make his millions in the Opal business

There are some weird things lying about the place

The Dog fence - the longest fence in the world (longer the the Great Wall)

The Breakaways, the place Mad Max was filmed

Sunset at the Breakaways

Four on Tour at the NT border

The famous monolith Uluru at sunset

Four on Tour & Uluru

Another shot of the rock

Kata Tjuta at sunrise

Matt, Rich & Phil walking the 'Valley of Winds'

Kata Tjuta (the Olgas)

One of the main viewpoints at Kata Tjuta

Water erosion on Uluru

A piece coming off the great rock

There are loads of little caves about

And water holes

The path used to climb the rock

More water erosion

Watarrka (Kings Canyon)

The cliffs are pretty scary

Phil on a little ledge

Rich checking out the drop

Phil didn't realise how precarious it was until after

Four on Tour on the edge

Matt should have pointed this out to Phil

The Garden of Eden

Another view of the canyon

Four on Tour at the SA border (again)

The memorial in Alice Springs

The Gap in Alice