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Arthur and Persephone Suits Explore Australia
February 2010
Arthur gave seminars and visited
labs in Canberra and Sydney which
left some time to explore the continent
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Glowing in the Dark
These are "glowworms" in the cave |
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Arthur & Perko pet a Wombat |
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Perko completes the sculpture |
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Sydney Opera House
The world famous architectural masterpiece
by Danish architect Jorn Utzon
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Telescope-Mirror-Grinder-in-Chief Arthur Suits |
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Arthur's Telescope
The stars were great, I saw, among other things, the Large Magellanic Cloud (a nearby satellite galaxy of ours visible to the naked eye), the Tarantula nebula, Omega Centauri (a huge globular cluster), and the remarkable Eta Carina nebula. And even Persephone noticed that Orion was "upside down".
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Wallaby
The name normally used for any Macropod
smaller than a Kangaroo
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Our Cabin
We stayed in this cabin,
a beautiful place in the
Blue Mountains west of Sydney
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Perko has lunch
She is eating beets, a popular food in Australia (every hamburger is served with beets on it). |
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Boat Ride
In Sydney Harbor. The Opera House is on
Bennelong Point |
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 Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo
We visited this zoo outside of
Brisbane. It is a remarkable place,
very interactive. Steve is like a god to them.
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Smiling Lady
The blond lady is our former au pair, Kylie
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Perko with Kylie's two kids |
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