Copyright © Tanya Piejus, 2001

• The Arts Factory's resident dragon, Byron Bay
• Milaa Milaa Falls
• The Dag Sheep Station, Nundle
• I try my hand at sheep shearing (90 degree pic)
• The Indian-Pacific train at the ghost town of Cook
• The Nullarbor Plain in the rain from the train
• Downtown Perth
• One of Rottnest Island's famous quokkas
• One of Rottnest Island's many gorgeous beaches
• Convict-built Fremantle jail
• Flowstone in Ngilgi Cave (another head-turning pic)
• Sea fishing near Margaret River
• Sunset at Surfer's Point on the day of the bus crash
• Climbing the Gloucester Tree (more head-turning)
• The canopy walkway in the Valley of the Giants
• A hair-raising experience at the Blowholes near Albany
• The Natural Bridge, Albany
• My next bike!
• Albany
• The Pinnacles
• In Kalbarri National Park
• Murchison Gorge in Kalbarri NP
• The Hamelin Pool stromatolites
• Puck, one of Monkey Mia's resident dolphins
• Road to Nowhere, WA
• Sunset at the Exmouth lighthouse
• Fortescue Falls, Karajini National Park
• Riding a camel on Cable Beach
• Another Bleedin' Sunset - from Cable Beach this time
• A freshly-captured frill-necked lizard
• The Boab Prison Tree, Derby
• In Tunnel Creek, the Kimberley
• Fruit bats leaving Windjana Gorge at sunset (90 degree pic again, I'm sorry)
• Henry, Dennis and the kangaroo tails
• The Bungle Bungles
• Our truck in the Bungles
• The Bungles from the air
• Crude behaviour at the WA/NT border
• I qualify as an Open Water diver
• Don't try this at home, boys and girls
• Big Thing No. 13: The Big Cassowary, Mission Beach, Qld
• Magnetic Island off Townsville
• Whitehaven Beach, Whitsundays
• Trying out the pool at Namoi Hills Cattle Station
• The first road train I've remembered to photograph
• Beautiful Lake Mackenzie, Fraser Island
• Coloured sands along the eastern beach of Fraser
• The rusting wreck of the Maheno, Fraser Island
• Lake Wabby marooned among the sandblows of Fraser
• The only way to get down a 50m-high sand dune (sideways pic)
• Whale-watch boat and a humpback's back off Hervey Bay
• Big Thing No. 14: The Big Mower, Glasshouse Mountains, Qld
• Big Thing No. 15: The Big Pineapple, Nambour, Qld
• Downtown Brisbane
• Hinterland scenery near Brisbane
• Skydiving: Cool, calm and confident
• Oh fuuuuuu......!!!
• Here we go!
• Freefallin'
• The Australian navy comes to Darwin
• Watching the sunset at Mindil Beach is a popular pasttime in Darwin
• Me with a young sea eagle at the Territory Wildlife Park
• A saltwater crocodile in Corroboree Billabong
• Sunset at Yellow Waters in Kakadu National Park
• The top of Twin Falls
• The bottom of Twin Falls
• Rock Art at Ubirr in Kakadu
• Some of the permanent wetlands in Kakadu
• A souvenir from Kakadu
• Big Thing No. 9: Big Boxing Crocodile, Humpty Doo, NT
• Big Thing No. 10: Big Captain Cook, Cairns, Qld
• Big Thing No. 11: Big Marlin, Cairns, Qld
• Cairns
• On board the Vagabond
• A double rainbow just off Fitzroy Island
• Fitzroy Island
• The Skyrail to Kapunda
• The Barron Gorge near Kapunda
• Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef
• Schooling batfish
• Making fire at the Tjapukai Aboriginal centre
• The Atherton Tablelands
• Wrapped up in a strangler fig
• A young rock wallaby in its natural habitat
• The harbour at Port Douglas
• In Mossman Gorge
• Rex, a spectacled flying fox (a portrait pic)
• A well camouflaged rocket frog
• A young forest dragon
• A green-eyed tree frog
• Big Thing No. 12: Big Barramundi, Daintree, Qld
• Wheeeeeee!
• Sunrise outside Alice Springs, with hot-air balloon
• Sunset over Alice
• The desert country outside Alice
• Simpson's Gap, near Alice
• Todd Mall, central Alice (just to prove it's not a dusty, one-horse town)
• The Todd River in its usual dried-up state
• The Grape Shed at Toddy's where I lived while in Alice (top left, above the laundry)
• Cars at the start of the 2001 Finke Desert Race
• A blur of bikes starting the Finke race
• Going through the first bend
• The result of an inch of rain overnight on the return journey
• Mud, mud, glorious mud...
• The appropriately-named Micheal Vroom on his way to becoming King of the Desert
• Our Ken before the Finke race...
• ...and after
• The UFOs - the women's fastpitch softball team I played for
• Doing the bar shift at Toddy's
• Things get silly on my last night in Alice
• Crossing the Tropic of Capricorn (a perpendicular pic)
• Some of the Devil's Marbles
• An emu chick at Banka Banka Station
• Mataranka Thermal Pool
• Katherine Gorge
• Edith Falls
• Nhulunbuy on the Gove Peninsula
• Pandanus trees, Cape Arnhem
• A gorgeous beach on Cape Arnhem
• Another gorgeous beach on Cape Arnhem
• Equine excitement at the Darwin Cup
• A rather large termite mound
• Florence Falls in Litchfield National Park
• Larking about at Buley Rockholes in Litchfield
• A friendly water monitor
• Magnetic termite mounds
• Sunrise on my 30th birthday
• Ballooning along the Old South Road towards Alice Springs
• Looking towards Heavitree Gap from 2000 feet
• Our breakfast spot in the desert
• Landing the balloon didn't go quite as planned...
• I've got the champagne so I'm happy!
• Birthday silliness and a flynet at Henbury Meteorite Craters
• A camel at Curtin Springs Roadhouse
• Cracking open the bubbly again at Uluru
• Uluru sunset 1
• Uluru sunset 2
• The big red rock a bit closer up
• Another view of Uluru
• Uluru's flaky surface
• One of Uluru's many scars
• Uluru in its daywear
• Silliness with travel pillows at Yulara Campground
• Sunrise at Uluru
• Uluru and a big sky
• Kata-Tjuta (The Olgas)
• Me and Kata-Tjuta
• The Valley of the Winds, Kata-Tjuta
• Kata-Tjuta at close quarters
• The weird domes of King's Canyon
• Sheer walls of sandstone at King's Canyon
• Me driving Edna across the Finke River
• Looking towards Gosse Bluff, a large meteorite crater, from Tyler's Pass
• Redbank Gorge
• The Ochre Pits
• Ellery Creek Big Hole
• Getting Standley Chasm all to ourselves
• A cycad
• The original Alice Spring which isn't a spring at all but a waterhole
• A Hollywood comedy in the making at the Old Telegraph Station
• The School of the Air
• I'm a bloke, I'm an ocker...
• The Sturt Desert pea
• A bowerbird's bower
• Me in the Olive Pink Botanical Reserve, looking towards Mt Gillen
• Big Thing No. 5 - The Big Orange, Berri, SA (138k)
• Sandstone river cliffs along the Murray (262k)
• The Great Grey-Green Greasy Murray River, All Set About with Gum Trees (253k)
• More of the Murray (138k)
• Big Thing No. 6 - The Big Rocking Horse, Gumerache, SA (214k)
• A view of the Barossa Valley (198k)
• 180-year-old vines in the Barossa (296k)
• Sampling a fine '98 Barossa Shiraz at Richmond Grove winery (198k)
• Big Thing No. 7 - The Big Miner, Kapunda, SA (110k)
• The Oz bus after travelling the dirt roads to Parachilna (160k)
• Going Outback... (163k)
• Iga Warta at sunset (189k)
• The setting sun over the hills near Iga Warta (131k)
• Cliff explaining Aboriginal rock paintings (251k)
• Cliff and Clarry performing a fire dance (161k)
• Arraru, the North Wind and Muthari, the South Wind (257k)
• Cliff telling a Dreaming story of the Adnymathana people (196k)
• The Iga Warta kids (228k)
• Chez, aged 5 (236k)
• Me with Kipper, Browny and Garawa (260k)
• My boomerang in the making (300k)
• Rassa, the orphaned joey, being cared for by Carl and Browny (182k)
• The Flinders Ranges from the air (193k)
• Another view of the Flinders (196k)
• Me in the Flinders Ranges (207k)
• Looking across Wilpena Pound (152k)
• The Missile Park in Woomera (217k)
• The Stuart Highway (205k)
• Downtown Coober Pedy (187k)
• Aussie humour at the Coober Pedy golf course (139k)
• Mining for opals (157k)
• A spot of fossicking (195k)
• Bunking underground at Radeka's (226k)
• The bearded dragon who likes to frighten people in the shower (212k)
• Big Thing No. 8 - The Big Winch, Coober Pedy, SA (185k)
• Mind those mine shafts! (198k)
• Piles of mullock, the miners' leftovers (138k)
• Dead cars in Coober (209k)
• The Dog Fence that keeps the dingos out of southern Australia (178k)
• The mail truck that delivers to Oodnadatta and William Creek (173k)
• The Moon Plain, a whole load of... nothing (212k)
• The Pink Roadhouse, Oodnadatta (183k)
• One of the hazards of driving on the Oodnadatta Truck (162k)
• The longest single-span bridge in Oz which used to carry the Old Ghan Railway (177k)
• Cattle country (154k)
• Martian landscape along the Oodnadatta Track (158k)
• The most expensive phonebox to be installed in the southern hemisphere at William Creek (209k)
• Setting up camp on Kangaroo Island (157k)
• Playing possum (209k)
• Australian sealions, Seal Bay (117k)
• Master of the beach (123k)
• How cute? (141k)
• Sandboarding the easy way at Little Sahara Desert (yes, that is me at the back) (88k)
• Sandboarding the hard way (not me!) (89k)
• Larking about at Hanson Bay (117k)
• Mummy and baby koalas so close you could touch 'em (200k)
• Portrait of a 'roo (170k)
• A Remarkable Rock (109k)
• Pelicans bobbing about at American River (146k)
• The Adelaide skyline (100k)
• St Peter's cathedral, one of Adelaide's many churches (119k)
• The Lutheran College, a fine bit of architecture (173k)
• Colonial house in posh North Adelaide (194k)
• Proud old soldiers in the ANZAC Day parade (159k)
• The South Australian war memorial on ANZAC Day (116k)
• The Palm House in Adelaide's botanic gardens (106k)
• Self-portrait in Adelaide city centre at night (93k)
• My cell at Mt Gambier jail (86k)
• Archie the Wonder Dog, another inmate at the jail (91k)
• Big Thing No. 4 - The Big Lobster, Kingston SE, SA (a.k.a. Larry) (97k)
• Preparing to take to the skies over Torquay in a 1945 Tiger Moth (106k)
• Surfers' mecca, Bells Beach (105k)
• Blanket Bay, Cape Otway (111k)
• The koalas' favourite, manna gums (204k)
• The koala I found at Cape Otway (210k)
• Station Beach, looking towards the Otway Lightstation (82k)
• The Twelve Apostles, Great Ocean Road (94k)
• Arty black and white shot of the Twelve Apostles (77k)
• Moody sunset at the Twelve Apostles (86k)
• More limestone stacks near the Twelve Apostles (121k)
• Sleepy Port Campbell on the Great Ocean Road (98k)
• The Thunder Cave (151k)
• London Bridge, after it fell down (104k)
• Emus at Tower Hill (200k)
• Walking Silent Street in the Grampians (202k)
• It's hard work walking in the Grampians (146k)
• The Pinnacle (that's me at the end) (139k)
• Just for Mum - me in the Grampians, sporting new hiking boots
• More Grampians
• "Ride 'im, cowboy!" at the Great Western Rodeo
• Climbing Mt Arapiles
• Me outside Lou Carpenter's house in Neighbours' Ramsey Street
• Dancing fountain outside the Crown Casino, Melbourne
• The Hawthorn Aussie rules team taunts rivals Brisbane Lions
• A member of the Pepsi Max team thrills the crowd at the Moomba Festival, Melbourne
• The Tram Band at the Moomba Festival
• Ned Kelly's death mask at the Old Melbourne Gaol
• Big Thing No. 2 - The Big Ned Kelly, Glenrowan, Vic.
• Big Thing No. 3 - The Giant Murray Cod, Swan Hill, Vic.
• The main street in Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement
• A typical view of farming country in Victoria
• The Spirit of Tasmania moored in Devonport
• Soggy me in front of Cradle Mountain and Dove Lake
• Strahan harbour with rainbow
• The Penitentiary, Port Arthur
• Convict-built church, Port Arthur
• Free people's graves, Isle of the Dead, Port Arthur
• The Model Prison, Port Arthur
• Russell Falls, Mount Field National Park
• Wineglass Bay, Freycinet Peninsula
• Me enjoying idyllic Wineglass Bay
• Biceno blowhole
• St Columba Falls
• Me with Slops, the beer-guzzling pig
• Amazing formations in Marakoopa Cave
• Melbourne CBD from the Rialto Tower
• Sunset over The Nobbies, Phillip Island
• The Oz Experience bus prepares for wildlife
• Squeaky Beach, Wilson's Promontory
• Swampland on the way to Sealers Cove, Wilson's Promontory
• Government House, Canberra
• Even the roos like to chill out by the beach
• The Yurt Farm - mine's bottom right
• Big Thing No. 1 - The Big Merino, Goulburn, NSW
• Yes, I am a tourist!
• Getting the squeeze in The Plughole
• The Three Sisters, Blue Mountains
• Blue Mountains greenery
• Waverley Cemetery, Sydney - a great place to be dead
• Bondi Beach, Sydney
• Yours truly on the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb - in the rain!
• Sydney Harbour Bridge
• Sydney Opera House
• Sydney Central Business District (CBD) with the botanical gardens in front
• View across Sydney Harbour from Taronga Zoo
• The Queen Elizabeth II moored in Sydney Harbour
• Kangaroo hanging loose at Taronga Zoo

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