Sydney Aquarium

IMAX Theater at Darling Harbor

One ugly fish!
Seal

Shark

More sharks!

Duck billed platypus

These are the sights from the Sydney Aquarium. It is really a great aquarium. In the Shark display you walk through a circular tube and the fish are swimming over, under and to both sides of you. There were a lot of sharks, giant squid along with many other large fish. The favorite display is the platypus. He really is a cute animal.

Area Service Project August 18, 2007

Completed 72 hour kits.

We did not take our camera to the service project where we assembled 800+ 72-hour kits in back packs for all of the missionaries in Australia. These pictures were taken by someone else. The people in this picture are Elder Sybrowsky and his daughter on the left, some of the missionaries who helped assemble the back packs, and Elder and Sister Hilbig on the right end.

Area Medical Office and Birds

This is the male Plover.

This picture is out of focus because I had to take it from very far away and try to get closer

It is a mother Plover who is sitting on her eggs. She won't let you get close to her and is very mean if you try. She is in the lawn right in front of our building.

Sitting at my desk working on the blog.


View of the Buckland House from our office.

Jay at the computer

Jay is standing in this window pulling funny faces!

The three windows in the center are our office.

Close up of sign outside our office.

This is our "home" during the day.

This picture was taken from the porch of our office. The building is the Buckland House where the Area offices are located.

Aussie Nativity

This is the Australian Nativity. I am getting this one for you instead of the traditional one. All of the pieces are Australian animals. It is new this year and will be a collector's item according to the lady who made them.

Watson Bay Outing August 11, 2007

Beach at Watson Bay
Flowers are beautiful here all year round.


South Head -Cliffs


Sail boats on the harbor.



Lighthouse at Watson Bay-South Head

Jay with North Head in background

North Head-ships enter the Sydney Harbor by going through the Heads - North and South that are projections of land mass that make the entrance quite narrow.

Lady Bug Beach

On the beach at Watson Bay



Sydney Harbor Bridge

Nativity Set

Nativity Set
Australian Animals

Infamous Bike Ride in Olympic Park

Elizabeth riding her bike

The Group l-r: Bob McMullen, the three Scruggs, The Warbys, Brent Anderson, The Nallys, The Oldroyds, Elsie Anderson (Gail McMullen took the picture).

Olympic Stadium

Bike Trail-Olympic Park

Birds feeding in lake in Olympic Park

Jay, the biker

Nallys at bike shopElizabeth and her bike

Syndey-Our Second Saturday July 28, 2007

Elizabeth & Jay with Opera House in background

Sydney Harbor

Darling Harbor

Didgeridoo Show
Sydney Opera House
Sydney Harbor Bridge
Ferry Boat from Rydalmere to Circular Quay

Arrived in Australia at last!!!

Just arrived yesterday. We are eating lunch in the Carlingford Shopping Center. Do we look a bit jet lagged? We were!!!













This is Peggy and Ken Stevens, our predecessors. He is Rozanne's uncle, Marva's brother. They were very nice to us. We will live in their flat










What is a didgeridoo? It is an Aborginal musical instrument that is the craze with tourists and senior missionaries alike!
This is the kiosk at the Paddy Market in Sydney (which is a huge flea market) where they sell "the best" didgeriedoos. Ken Stevens took home a bunch of them. You blow into one end and this mournful sound comes out of the other end.














Senior Missionaries, Elder Anderton, Elder McMullin and Elder Keyes playing their didgeridoos.


















Queen Victoria Building has upscale shops and restaurants and houses the largest rail station in the Sydney train network in the basement. The inside is very beautiful.














International clock inside the Queen Victoria Building.















Details of the International clock.














This was where we ate lunch on Friday afternoon in downtown Sydney in the China Town area. This was a large room with tables and chairs. Around the perimeter of the room were kiosks that sold different oriental food. Some were Chinese, or Japanese or Thai. You would order from whichever kiosk looked the best to you. It was good food and not too expensive. Sort of a fast food Oriental food court.