Australia March 2006

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Russell Falls
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Pademelon
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Pademelon. On this evening we also saw Possums and an Eastern barred bandicoot are rare treat.
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Duck billed platypus, although you can't tell but we got a lovely close up view of this one beak and all.
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Sea cruise around Bruny Island from the Tasman Sea to the Southern ocean
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Kelp, which the Japanese use to make soup stocks, the basis for miso soup.
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Dolerite cliffs. This type of igneous rock was formed about 170 million years ago. It is a link between Tasmania and Gondwana when they were linked as the supercontinent Gondwana.
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Breathing rock, which incidently soaked us, as we were sitting in the front of the boat and our captain positioned us right up close!
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Fur seal colony
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View from Mount Wellington down on to Hobart
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Easterly view from Mount Wellington
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Echidna we saw by the side of the road in Lake St Clair world heritage area
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Nelson falls, on the drive to Strahan
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A blue berry on a plant that Steve cannot identify
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World heritage temperate rainforest
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Franklin river boat trip into the Franklin-Gordon wild rivers national park part of the world heritage reserve
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