Australia

Toby, Shoko and Leo tour Australia in February and March 2002.

South from Sydney

Shoko and Leo in Sydney

Toby climbing in the Blue Mountains (The route is 'These People are Sandwiches', 22 at Lower Shipley photos by Donald Gibson)

our Winnebago and driver

sunrise at Green Patch beach, Jervis Bay

family portrait, Green Patch beach

First Kangaroo or is it a wallaby?, Green Patch campsite

in Canberra

Puffing Billy is a steam train ride in the surprisingly wild Dandenong hills just beyond the Melbourne suburbs

Leo in Melbourne on the Yarra riverbank

Mt Arapiles and the Grampians

Arapiles from the plains

bouldering at Arapiles (The problem is 'Caving', V2?)

and again .... (on the classic 'Golden Streak', V3?)

escaping the heat in the Wimmera river

Don't touch the wildlife (Leo had a Jurassic Park moment when this 25cm stickleback 'stumpy' lizard tried to bite off one of his fingers)

Shoko and Leo completing the Pinnacle trail in the Grampians

climbing the classic Kachoong, 21 (The photographer failed to capture Toby's carefully posed one arm hang at the lip)

off Kachoong (Seattle climber Kelly in flight)

North to the Outback

clifftop sunset near Maclaren Vale, south of Adelaide

Shoko with Koala at the Gorge Wildlife Park, Adelaide Hills

walking on Lake Hart , close to the Stuart Highway between Adelaide and Alice Springs

dirt road into the Painted Desert , east of the Stuart Highway

breakfast 100km from anywhere in the Painted Desert

big red rock

don't do this, don't do that, take your photos here, walk exactly there

the steep chain and summit of Uluru

Around Cairns

eco-tourism

rope swing, Emmagen Creek, Daintree rainforest

LEO's beach, Cape Tribulation coast

the nightmare world of strangler figs, Daintree and Tableland rainforests

First Crocodile, Cooper Creek, Daintree rainforest