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Day 1: Colombo and a Slow Drive

2023: Dubbo Short Stay (78)
2019: Kangaroo Island, Nullarbor & Western Australia (225)
2019: Port Stephens Whale-watching (25)
2019: Lord Howe Island (50)
2019: Drive to Tasmania for a wedding (0)

2018: Sydney - Lake Mungo - Arkaroola - Bangalow (226)
2018: Darwin Kakadu Broome (159)
2015, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2023: Bangalow Music Festivals (71)
2016: Canberra & Beechworth (32)
2014: Cowra & Bathurst (36)
2013: Slow Trip to Tasmania (12 galleries) (0)

Narooma and Lake Wagonga (30)
Walhalla (43)
Deloraine - Liffey Falls - Pine Lake (34)
Hobart (76)
South West Tasmania – "A Day in the Wilderness" (84)
Bruny Island (58)
Tahune Air Walk (18)
Hartz Mountains National Park (16)
Salmon Ponds at Plenty (10)
Mount Field National Park (19)
Oatlands and Ross (8)
Launceston to Devonport (last day in Tas) (12)

Crossing Bass Strait (8)
Three days on the Northwest Coast (46)
Ellendale Gardens (21)
Wild West of Tasmania (32)
Wilderness Railway (22)
Strahan and Macquarie Harbour (28)
Hobart — Battery Point and the Waterfront (15)
Huon Valley and Mount Wellington (13)
Devil Day: Tasman Peninsula (16)
Port Arthur (36)
Old Tasmanian Towns (36)
Last day: Launceston and west of (12)

1: Old buildings in Mudgee (9)
2: Wellington: Caves and an Arboretum (16)
3: The Old Dubbo Gaol (7)
4: Mount Grenfell Historic Site (12)
5: Wilcannia, not quite a ghost town (8)
6: On the road to Wilpena (7)
7: Flight over Flinders Ranges to Lake Eyre (30)
8: Blinman and the Gorges (9)
9: Old Wilpena Homestead with Trees (12)
10: The Kanyaka Ruins (17)
11: Melrose: a museum and a pub (11)
12: Sevenhill Cellars: A Jesuit Winery (14)
13: Oxley Farm: B&B with animals (12)
14: Angaston, Luther Land, and Maggie Beer's (22)
15: Padthaway Wine Tasting (5)
16: Naracoorte Caves and Fossils (10)
17: Portland: The Sea, and Wind Farms (7)
18: The Great Ocean Road (26)
19: Queenscliff to Sorrento Ferry (8)
20: Mornington Peninsula (16)

Plane and Bus to the Yarra Valley 2010 (8)
2006 Solo Trip (12 galleries) (0)

Album 1: Across New South Wales (26)
Album 2: Hattah-Kulkayne NP & Red Cliffs (10)
Album 3: Burra and North (57)
Album 4: Wilpena Pound and Flinders Ranges 2006 (55)

Jessie Hill's Story (11)

Album 5: Wilkawillina and Chambers Gorges (12)
Album 6: Arkaroola - especially the Ridgetop Tour (36)
Album 7: Marree and the Oodnadatta Track (39)
Album 8: A bit of the Stuart Highway (15)
Album 9: Around Alice Springs (27)
Album 10: Around Port Augusta (36)
Album 11: Morgan and the Murray River (19)
Album 12: Abandoned places in South Australia (28)

2005 Outback Trip (9 galleries) (3)

Album 1: Almost the Pacific Highway (19)
Album 2: Cania Gorge (16)
Album 3: Carnarvon Gorge (51)
Album 4: Country Queensland (33)
Album 5: Cooper Creek (14)
Album 6: Silver City Highway (8)
Album 7: Western Plains Zoo again (16)
Album 8: Parkes Radio Telescope (9)
Album 9: Japanese Garden Revisited (19)

Queensland 2004-2006 (12 galleries) (0)

Album 1: Cairns Wedding (9)
Album 2: To Kuranda by Skyrail (36)
Album 3: Cairns and Green Island (24)
Album 4: North from Cairns (9)
Album 5: Lakes and Forests, Atherton Tablelands (12)
Album 6: Malanda, Milk and Millaa Millaa (16)
Album 7: Paronella Park (15)
Album 8: Ballooning at Mareeba (20)
Album 9: Mareeba Wetlands (8)
Album 10: To Sandgate, to Sandgate (14)
Album 11: Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary (19)
Album 12: Springbrook: Lookouts and a Natural Arch (20)

2004 Outback Trip (11 galleries) (0)

Album: Old and Sentimental (6)

Bangalow 2023 (30)

22 Overseas Trips (1)

Vietnam 2007 (0)

1: Hanoi (58)
2: Around Sa Pa (65)
3: Bac Ha Market (32)
4: Halong Bay (32)
5: On the way to somewhere else (21)
6: Villages for Ceramics, Silk or Furniture (29)
8: Tam Coc: A rowboat through caves (19)
7: Phat Diem, a very Vietnamese Cathedral (16)
9: Hué – Kings, Wars and Recovery (75)
10: South from Hué (18)
11: Bach Ma National Park (21)
12: Hoi An (65)
13: Nha Trang (58)
14: Buon Ma Thuot, an elephant, and a waterfall (41)
15: Saigon (43)
16: The Cao Dai Great Temple (31)
17: The Mekong Delta (48)
18: Saigon Water Gardens (36)

North Island of NZ 2009 (0)

Fiji 2009 (72)
Argentina & Chile 2011-2012 (0)

Buenos Aires – our first look (0)

Our first look – Buildings Great and Small (10)
Buenos Aires Cathedral (8)
Museo Casa Rosada (8)
Buenos Aires Zoo (9)
A Walk to La Boca (11)
Puerto Madero (7)
Plaza Dorrego Market (10)
Contrasts in Shopping and Malls (7)

Antarctica 2012 (0)

South Georgia 2012 (0)

First murky glimpses, and Drygalski Fjord (24)
Cooper Bay: Mostly macaronis (23)
Gold Harbour (20)
Ocean Harbour (6)
Prion Island (20)
Grytviken (46)
Salisbury Plain (23)
Fortuna Bay (31)
Stromness (20)
Hercules Bay (28)
Right Whale Bay (24)
And finally, Stanley (24)

1: Sydney to Dublin (12)
2: Dublin (47)
3: Glendalough (36)
4: Athgreany: The Piper's Stones (8)
5: Baltinglass Abbey (11)
6: The Haroldstown Dolmen (4)
7: Altamont Gardens (28)
8: Kilkenny (12)
9: Cashel (36)
10: Clonmel (15)
11: Mountmelleray (12)
12: Dungarvan and Helvick (6)
13: Lismore (5)
14: Blarney Castle (38)
15: Inchigeelagh Church (6)
16: Gougane Barra (4)
17: Glengarriff and Garinish Island (36)
18: Beara Peninsula (20)
19: Kenmare and the Black Valley Road (28)
20: Dingle Peninsula (52)
21: Moher Cliffs (10)
22: A day with friends (23)
23: Clonmacnoise (23)
24: Birr Castle, Telescope & Gardens (24)

Scotland 2014 (0)

Glasgow Botanical Gardens (24)
Glasgow buildings (28)
Riverside Museum, Glasgow (11)
Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow (27)
Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, Glasgow (16)
Glasgow University (10)
Oban (14)
Bus trip to Seil Island (26)
Leaving Oban and through the Sound of Mull (20)
Iona (33)
Staffa: Fingal's Cave (28)
Isle of Skye: Loch Coruisk (35)
Isle of Skye: Rubh'an Dunain (19)
Calanais Standing Stones (16)
Bostadh on Great Bernera (16)
Hirta: The abandoned St Kilda settlement (33)
Cruise through the St Kilda Archipelago (36)
The Flannan Isles and Sulasgeir (9)
North Rona (31)
Papa Stour (24)
Solstice Party (40)
Mousa (15)
Jarlshof (29)
Orkney: Kirkwall and Skara Brae (40)
Aberdeen (48)
Foula (38)
Hermaness: A long walk (18)
Fair Isle: Puffins (25)

France 2014 (1)

Paris (46)
Giverny: Monet's garden in the rain (18)
Versailles (20)
Blois (27)
Cheverny (30)
Cormeray, Chitenay & Cellettes (10)
Chambord (10)
Chenonceau (13)
Château du Clos Lucé, Leonardo Da Vinci's last home (19)
Chaumont Gardens (11)
Valençay (22)
Mupop: the music museum at Montluçon (19)
The Cevenol: Scenes from a train window (11)
Nimes (40)
Lyon (23)

Africa 2015 (0)

Johannesburg (21)
Flight SA307 (16)
Cape Town (32)
Table Mountain (16)
Wine Tour (27)
Victoria Falls (41)
Chobe River (103)
Just Elephants (28)
Hwange National Park (70)
Chobe National Park: From Safari vehicle (87)
Ijambwe, a Namibian village (22)
Through the Hotel Window (8)
Some Botswana Birds (26)

Sri Lanka 2015 (0)

Kerala 2015 (0)

Cochi (7)
A Kathakali Performance (40)
A quick stop for a waterfall, and monkeys (11)
Windermere Estate, near Munnar (8)
Eravikulam National Park (18)
Marian Pilgrim Shrine, Pattumala (10)
Tea Road Munnar to Thekaddy (11)
Kottayam (4)
Lake Vembanad and "Whispering Palms" (14)
Alleppey Houseboat (17)
Kumarakom: Bird sanctuary and boat trip (11)
Periyar: Boat trip on a reservoir (15)
On the way by road (9)
Neyyar River Boat Trip to the Sea (14)
Padmanabhapuram Palace (8)

Mainland Ecuador 2016 (0)

By Air to Ecuador (14)
Quito (9 sub-galleries) (0)

Two Quito Hotels (8)
San Francisco Church and Convent (18)
The Golden Church (5)
Quito Market (10)
Casa del Alabado Museo de Arte Precolombino (23)
Traditional Crafts (17)
Personal Services (5)
q_views (7)
Quito Streets and Buildings (13)

Guayasamin Museum and Capilla del Hombre (13)
Otavalo and Peguche (46)
Napo River (34)
Sasha Lodge (67)
Tulipe Archaeological Site (9)
Mashpi Lodge (31)
Humming birds and friends (37)
Cotopaxi National Park (12)
Chimborazo (25)
600-year-old Hacienda (13)
Rose Factory (16)
Devil's Nose Train (21)
Ingapirca: Incas and Others (24)
Cuenca: a walking tour (40)
Cuenca: the panama hat orgy (19)
Guayaquil (14)

Galapagos Islands 2016 (0)

Cuba 2016 (0)

Sydney and Suburbs (0)

Sydney Harbour - Twelve sub-galleries (0)

Sydney Harbour from 1902 tug (20)
Hermitage Foreshore Walk (17)
Middle Harbour, Sydney (44)
North Harbour, Sydney Heads, Georges Head (42)
Parramatta River and Cockatoo Island (32)
Sydney Harbour - the busy bit (71)
Berry Island and Ball's Head (16)
Clifton Gardens (15)
Cremorne Point Walk (16)
2013 International Fleet Review (14)
A Visit to Goat Island (9)
Barangaroo to Circular Quay (12)
Jacaranda Cruise on Sydney Harbour (24)

Sydney Opera House - inside and around (28)
Bush and bushwalks in suburban Sydney (3)

Two hours in Oatley (16)
Irrawong and Warriewood (7)
Lane Cove River (6)
Manly Dam Reserve (3)
Walks around Middle Harbour (16)
Walks around Sydney Harbour (3)
Two short walks: Stony Ridge and Ferndale (4)
The Benowie Track (8)
Hawkesbury Walks (19)
The Great North Walk (19)
Lake Parramatta (16)
Ku-ring-gai Chase and St Ives Garden (18)
Walks in The Hills area (13)
La Perouse to Henry Head (12)

Sydney City Buildings (78)
Parramatta (48)
Stephen Walker: Sculpture at Circular Quay (12)
Opera Singer in Martin Place (6)
Kamay Botany Bay National Park 2009 (19)
Windsurfers at La Perouse (9)
Vaucluse House (24)
Wildlife in Suburban Sydney (70)
Cabramatta, Sydney's most Asian suburb (16)
Sydney Market (8)
Rookwood Cemetery Open Day (32)

Birds I have met – one picture of each (131)
Sydney Royal Easter Show 2004 to 2019 (0)

Canberra (0)

Canberra 1995 (19)
Australian War Memorial (15)
Floriade 2004 (52)
Lanyon and Cuppacumbalong (28)
Canberra revisited 2006 (52)
Telstra Tower (6)
Around Canberra 2007 (16)
Canberra 2012 (14)
Canberra 2014: Floriade, Museums and Food. (68)
Canberra 2015: Mainly Floriade (19)
From the top of a bus 2018 (8)
Canberra 2017: Sculpture Garden (28)
Canberra Floriade 2018 (46)
Canberra 2016 (8)
Canberra 2024 (5)

Beaches, Coasts and Rocks (194)
Lakes, rivers, birds and quiet places (173)

Australian zoos, parks and gardens (0)

Shoyoen Japanese Garden, Dubbo (12)
Hunter Valley Zoo (36)
Fagan Park, Arcadia (12)
Australian National Botanic Garden, Canberra (27)
Sydney Zoo at Eastern Creek (54)
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney (59)
Mount Annan (36)
Western Plains Zoo, Dubbo (44)
Mogo Zoo (21)
Nurragingy, Western Sydney (12)
Chinese Garden, Darling Harbour (12)
Sydney Park, St Peters (22)
Japanese Garden, Auburn (20)
Taronga Park Zoo (53)
Cowra Japanese Garden (56)
Chinese Garden Revisited (12)
Featherdale Zoo, Blacktown (82)
Windyridge Garden at Mount Wilson (25)
National Zoo, Canberra (12)
Perth Botanical Gardens (18)
Cockington Green (35)
Altina Wildlife Park (23)
Galston Open Gardens (32)
Billabong Zoo, Port Macquarie (23)
Lisgar Gardens, Hornsby (15)
Ellendale Gardens, Tasmania (21)
Merrylands Central Gardens Nature Reserve (16)

Old mining towns of New South Wales (81)
Hawkesbury Albums (0)

Rouse Hill (Album) (25)
Ebenezer: Church, Wine and River (Album) (15)
The McDonald Valley (Album) (16)
Hawkesbury Showground Events (297 pictures in 13 galleries) (0)

Cattai National Park (Album) (31)
Hawkesbury Chook Portrait Gallery (12)
Colo River (Eight pictures) (8)
Nepean River at Yarramundi (15 pictures) (23)
Windsor and Richmond (29)
Odd bits of water (15)
Pitt Town (3)
Open Day at the Rocking Horse Stables (22)
Scheyville (9)
Secret Garden (16)
Further down the Hawkesbury (3)
Hawkesbury Riverboat Postman (23)
Sand Sculpture at Windsor (24)
Longneck Lagoon (11)
The Hawkesbury Gallery at Windsor (8)
Scale Aircraft Flying at Richmond (20)
Kangaroos and wood ducks (19)
Hawkesbury Agricultural Show 2018 (0)
A Magnificent Junk Yard (13)
Hawkesbury in flood at Richmond (9)

Other places near Sydney (0)

Retford House (35)
Ferry from Palm Beach to Ettalong (16)
Blue Mountains and beyond (21 sub-albums) (0)

Red Hands Cave (4)
Megalong Valley (3)
Woodford Academy Heritage Building (16)
Valley Heights Rail Museum (42)
Wentworth Falls and National Pass (60)
Glen Davis and the Capertee Valley (28)
Empire Pass (16)
Waterfalls near Hazelbrook (12)
The Carrington Hotel (8)
Nepean River and the Lower Blue Mountains (49)
Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah (140)
Mount Banks, Mount Wilson and the Grose Valley (49)
Katoomba - Leura - Mt Hay (47)
Newnes, Deep Pass, and the Glow Worm Tunnel (60)
The Everglades at Leura (28)
Towards the Colo / Bob Turner's Track (20)
The Gorge Track (6)
Walls Lookout Track (29)
Two secret waterholes (8)
Jenolan Caves (18)
Picnic at Cox's River Campground (8)

Lithgow Ironfest 2016 (68)
Lithgow Ironfest 2011 (30)
Bents Basin 2009 (13)
An early morning walk in Berrima 2006 (20)
The Old Great North Road - Devines Hill (20)
Boxvale Tramway Walking Track (6)
Norah Head Light (9)
Zig Zag Railway (16)
Warragamba Dam (12)
Rock Lily Walk (7)
Wollombi (19)
Morpeth and Further (20)
Upper Hunter Valley (18)
Bungonia (5)
Fitzroy Inn at Mittagong (14)
"Cooma Cottage" at Yass (15)
Nan Tiem Buddhist Centre at Wollongong (16)
Hill End: Trip by Polestar (45)

Australian Museums, Displays & Galleries (0)

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra (34)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (15)
Cate Dudley's Paintings (159)

Gallery: Some of Cate's drypoints (11)

"Art of the Brick" Lego Show (36)
The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney (85)

Gallery: Oopsatoreum (6)
Gallery: Strasburg Clock Model (9)

Egyptian Mummies at the Powerhouse Museum (26)
Canberra Sculpture Garden (16)
Brickman Awesome (20)
Hyper Real Exhibition (37)
Museum and Art Gallery Northern Territory (8)
Madame Tussaud in Sydney (18)
Captain Cook Exhibition (9)
Rome: City and Empire (20)
National Museum, Canberra (8)
MONA (Hobart) (16)

Australian Wildflowers (269)

A collection of waratah pictures (17)

Sculpture Exhibitions (0)

The Chronicle of Charlie - the First Eighteen Years (267)
Small Things (95)
Wallpaper, Colour and Pattern (192)
Signs and Wonders (61)
Pictures from 25 Rivers (25)
Anasaphilia – a love of ducks (60)
Photographers (41)
A Collection of Ceilings (50)
Ernst Boerschmann's Pictures of China (0)