Aug 2001 - May 2003: Australia
We sailed over from Fiji to Australia, saying goodbye to the Farrand family:
We stayed in Australia for almost two years, until May of 2003, our extended stay punctuated by home visits and a month in Papua New Guinea. We rented a house in Sanctuary Cove, a little south of Brisbane and close to the shipyard where Rhapsodie underwent a bunch of repairs and upgrades.
Our house on Sanctuary Cove
It came with a dock on the Coomera River, a swimming pool, ...
A golf course, a golf cart. ...
And lest I forget, some really nasty spiders.
Both kids attended school while in Australia - how about those school outfits?
The next few pages include a fairly random collection of videos I took during our time in Australia. Enjoy!
Brisbane River
Kookaburra, Sanctuary Cove
Koalas, Caren in our tiny sailboat
Nimbin, Beach
Kids with Kangaroos
Dana's School, Surfboat race, kids with animals
Aborigines, more kangaroos
Burning tree (there was a fire near our house), glamping
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