Kellie, Dave and Tom on a vacation in Australia in 2000. Part of tour visit to the Aboriginal Culture Center in Alice Springs. Description of some of the tools, weapons and life of the Aboriginal men. Dave got volunteered by Tom to be part of the demo.
Australia and New Zealand Tour and Cruise from the Epic Explorer Collection From the tropical splendor of the Great Barrier Reef on Australia’s northern coast, to the ethereal beauty of glacial fjords on New Zealand’s South Island, this 12-day journey to the lands “down under” brings you the best of both countries at an enjoyable pace. Cruise Sydney Harbour and Milford Sound. Meet Australia’s wildlife up close. Discover the wonders of Aboriginal culture. And experience Queenstown, the “Adventure Capital of the World.”
Kellie, Dave and Tom on a vacation in Australia in 2000. Just a quick tour of our hotel in Cairns on our last night. It’s a highly rated resort that took great care of us. They had a number of options for dining, could book any tour we wanted, and provided free bus service to town. At the end I was finishing up the tape at the Sydney airport when a Qantas stewardess notice me filming and flashed a little leg 
Kellie, Dave and Tom on a vacation in Australia in 2000. This was the first part of the “Eyes in the Dark” tour. We were taken out to the Bond Cattle Station just outside of Alice Springs. We were given a tour of the old homestead buildings. We see the original houses and upgrades over the years, some of the out buildings and the school room. School for the most part is done by correspondence up to a certain age followed by boarding school until high school graduation. What was once mostly done by radio now happens mostly via computer.
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses (commonly called the North Island and the South Island), and numerous smaller islands, most notably Stewart Island/Rakiura and the Chatham Islands. The indigenous Māori language name for New Zealand is Aotearoa, commonly translated as The Land of the Long White Cloud. The Realm of New Zealand also includes the Cook Islands and Niue (self-governing but in free association); Tokelau; and the Ross Dependency (New Zealand’s territorial claim in Antarctica). New Zealand is notable for its geographic isolation: it is situated about 2000 km (1250 miles) southeast of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and its…
Kellie, Dave and Tom on a vacation in Australia in 2000. This was part of our last few days in Australia in Cairns. This a Butterfly Sanctuary in Kuranda. It houses a collection of free flying native butterfly in the large enclosure as well as a huge collection of mounted specimens. The colors are incredible. Some of the butterflys had huge wingspans, about a foot. The video of the free flyers isn’t that great but I did the best I could.
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