Trip to Australia – March 3-21, 2001

Can you believe that blue sky? Unfortunately the emptying flood waters made the ocean look a little brown and icky though. Here we are on the V-Wall, which is lined with large rocks and boulders that people have decorated over the years. See 'em, there to the right? Too bad we forgot to bring paint with us.

Here's a close-up so you can see what I mean. The area is fairly popular with tourists, so there's graffiti from just about every part of the world. Some simply commemorate a trip, while others are actually memorials to people who used to love the area. There were Gospel messages, as well as notes of people's weddings and honeymoons. Some families add more to their rocks every year that they visit.

Father and Son Snookums are enjoying this brief bit of sunshine...

...while Mama Snookums stayed safely under her umbrella and out of the harsh glare. She was the smart one. The rest of us ended up burnt.

See? Can't you just hear my pasty white skin frying like bacon? (Ewww, gross image. Sorry.) Here I am with the mighty Pacific. I thought that this was the first time I'd ever seen it, but then Snookums pointed out that I'd been to Acapulco once before in college. Drat. At any rate, this was my first time seeing it from the Eastern Hemisphere.

Shiver me timbers! What a couple of land lubbers. :)

I was sad that I wasn't going to get to leave my name on a rock, but then luckily we spotted another "Kris" that would do just as well. So there I am, right below "Langley." A little permanent reminder of yours truly for the town of Nambucca Heads.