Flying to Melbourne via Sydney

Flying from Armidale to Sydney is very much like flying from the University Park Airport, small plane but great service. Here's a shot out my window.




Ok, now I'm impressed. On our flight to Melbourne we have the use of an iPad for movies and music.

Here are some of the buildings we saw on our walk about Melbourne



Flinders Rail Station built in 1910 and Australia's oldest rail station.




A bath house built in 1860

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Location:Close to the heavens

Monday, Feb 25 -- around Armidale

Since they've had so much rain, we decided to visit several falls within a 100 miles of Armidale. Bill and I had visited these when we were here in the spring but since it was rather dry then, there was only a trickle. Now water was pouring over the falls as you can see in the pictures.




This is Dangar Falls




Ebor Falls




Lower Ebor Falls




Wollomombi Falls with the fog.

Then as we were pulling in to Paul and Miriam's house, look what we got to see




A wallaroo, is halfway between a wallaby and a kangaroo in size. This one was quite husky.

That's it for today. Tomorrow we'll be flying to Melbourne. I'm anxious to visit that city.

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Location:Dangar Falls, Ebor Falls, Dorrigo, Wollomombi Falls

Arrived in Armidale--Feb 24

We had a safe, uneventful but long trip from State College to Philly to Los Angeles to Sydney tomArmidale, about 22 hours.

We took a walkabout but didn't see any kangaroos yet. They are like our deer, when its hot they take cover. The weather is about 20 degrees C and overcast. Some places east of here have had 20 inches of rain with flooding and damage to homes and roads. We were going to visit the Dorrigo Rain Forest but those roads are closed due to the rains. So we're heading out to Danger Falls. Will post more about that when we get back.

Here are a few pics of Miriam's beautiful gardens






and one of Bill and Miriam looking at a map of Australia. Miriam is pointing to Armidale. You can see how large Australia.



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Location:Armidale, New South Wales