AUSTRALIA

Kakadu National Park

In Kakadu, there are two major seasons = the wet and the dry. In the dry season, large part of the park is under the water. Vegetation is adopted to survive such conditions.

 This is a paperbark tree.

Huge termite houses are nothing unusual in the Northern Territory. This type is called the Cathedral.

Nourlangie Rock. Apart from wetlands, red rocks and eucalyptus trees are the second most typical scenery of the Kakadu N.P.

Nourlangie Rock is one of the sacred aboriginal places. Many aboriginal rock paintings are preserved here. They display figures from the aboriginal mythology, humans and animals.

The grass in eucalyptus forests sometimes grows up to three meters high.

Territory Wildlife Park

Australian emu is the second largest bird in the world, right after the African ostrich.

This crocodile is 7m long.

The Great Barrier Reef

A view of part of the Great Barrier Reef from an airplane.
(postcard)

Marek in his snorkeling outfit.

Under the water, we saw corals of many different shapes and colors.
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Fish were quite colorful as well. This is rainbow fish (or we also heard it to be called parrot fish) - large and colorful.

Who did not take enough Dramamine ended like this (or worse) during our seriously bumpy ride on the stormy sea.

Sydney

The Opera dominates the Sydney harbor.

Another landmark is the Harbor Bridge. Entrepreneurial Australians turned it into a great tourist attraction. Dressed up in the same gray outfits and hooked to a safety line, group after group of tourists are walking up the arch of the bridge. This became so popular that despite the serious price, reservations need to be made several months ahead (so we hear, anyway).