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Photos of Perth Zoo

I’ve posted photos on my gallery of our two visits to Perth Zoo. Click Here, there are two pages to see! Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

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Kings Park Flower Festival Photos

Just a quick movie to let you know I have uploaded a good many photos from the Kings Park Flower Festival. To see all the photos, click here, there are two pages. These are amazing flowers, so different than anything we have here in Maryland. Create your own video slideshow...

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Kings Park

Kings Park is a 4.06-square-kilometre (1,003-acre) park located on the western edge of Perth, Western Australia central business district. The park is a mixture of grassed parkland, botanical gardens and natural bushland on Mount Eliza with two thirds of the grounds conserved as native bushland. With panoramic views of the...

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Last Night in Perth

Last night in Perth It’s weird…you know the end of something great is coming, but you want to hold on, just for one more second…just so it can hurt a little more. After a day waking up early taking fog photos, then shopping at the mall, going to Hillary’s, we...

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Tour of Sonshine FM Radio Station

While in Perth, Australia, Rodney offered to give us a tour of the Radio Station 98.5 Sonshine FM. They have a standard for music that I can appreciate. We believe the media influences community values, and we have a responsibility to present positive values and offer hope. 98.5 Sonshine FM...

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Perth at Night

After a very chill day at the chocolate factory, and later some shopping at Hillary’s, John and I went out to photograph Perth at night.

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Fremantle is a port city in Western Australia, located 19 kilometers (12 mi) southwest of Perth, the state capital, at the mouth of the Swan River on Australia’s western coast. It was the first settlement of the Swan River colonists in 1828. It was declared a city in 1929 and...

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Kings Park Wildflowers

Every September Kings Park in Perth holds a wildflower festival. This is one of the reasons I wanted to come to Australia in September. I started to post one of each of the varieties I saw there, but there are SO MANY. So here are a few of the amazing...

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Caversham Wildlife Park

Continuing from the theme of our visit to Caversham Wildlife Park yesterday, here I will show you the animals they have there as well as the kangaroos and koalas I posted yesterday! Our visit to the wildlife park was amazing, seeing Laura pet a kangaroo and koalas was worth the...

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Aqwa and Hillary’s Boat Harbor

Today with the threat of rain, we went to an indoor activity, Western Australia’s Aquarium, Aqwa, located at Hillarys Boat Harbour. It was a great day for harbor photos, the clouds were perfect. More Photos on my gallery now » HERE After a walk around the harbor, we reached the...

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Perth

Today we went into the city of Perth. We went to London Court because I love Tudor Style anything, but Laura loved it for it’s shops. Built in 1937 as a combination of residential and commercial premises for a wealthy gold miner and financier Claude de Bernales, Perth’s London Court...

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John’s House

Still a little tired from lack of sleep here (and Laura from TOO MUCH sleep) we had an easy day of grocery shopping, dusting the house, doing the dishes, and ironing. Of course I took breaks and grabbed my camera and took photos of John’s house from the front and...

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Melbourne to Perth

We arrived to Melbourne early in the morning and was quickly rushed to various immigration and custom areas. I was a little worried as I had prescription medicines with me and the only box related to that on the documentation  I had to fill out on the plane, was medicines,...

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Perth Australia

Tomorrow, if all goes to plan, Laura and I will head out for a vacation that we have waited on, to Perth, Australia. We are almost weary before we begin, as the 5 hours from Baltimore to LA, the 15 and a half hours from LA to Melbourne, and then...

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An Aussie’s Trip to Maryland

It’s always interesting to view your own area from the perspective of someone from somewhere else. Last October, John from Perth, Western Australia visited the USA. He was whisked out of his plane into downtown New York City by four crazy women and then we flew down Interstate 95 to...

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Christmas Presents 2008: Australia Package, part II

After John’s recent trip here and noting that Uggs of Australia are made in China, he decided to send Laura uggs made in  Australia, which she loves. After John watched Miquel’s enthusiasm for our local football team, the Ravens, he sent Miquel an official shirt of Perth’s soccer team, the Perth...

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A Small World

It happens to me all the time. I get upset how far away many loved ones are from me, and then something happens to make the world feel smaller. Perth, Australia has to be one of the farthest corners of the globe from my home in Maryland, USA. And in...