On the road & a look at the flooding

Here are some funny signs & things we encountered on our travels through Australia. It's funny what you find on signs there that I'm not sure you could get away with here... We found the one above while waiting in flood traffic.

A horse in a ute to advertise a transportation company...

DON'T BE A TOSSER!

Look closely at the bottom of the van...how do you get a license for that?

Henry finds fun new ways to occupy himself during road trips, such as emptying the diaper bag & tossing diapers all over the back seat & himself.

I don't knwo how he sleeps like this. He fell asleep protesting as usual & just passed out mid arm raising..

So cute in daddy's hat!

Awesome view from the road. We encountered lots of amazing scenery on our drive.

This was a little bit of the flooding as we were just starting our trip. This was one of the worst hit areas & just a few hours after we got through this whole town was under water. Yikes!!!

This was the road we took near the town of Risk. We arrived just a day after the whole thing was under water.

You can see where debris was washed up over the bridge.

Lovely weather for sight seeing! If you enlarge this one you can see Henry holding his hood up to block the wind.



Hope you are enjoying the pictures, It's been a long time coming, so there are a lot to go through. More to come in a few minutes on the next entry.

Lighthouse hike Byron Bay

The dotted line is the hike we were on in these pictures. We went all the way around several times. We started & ended at Wategos Bay & started out by heading up to the lighthouse. We LOVED this hike & I wish I lived in Byron Bay, if not for the surf & awesome weather, just for this hike alone! It is quite a long hike & not for people looking for an easy walk. It's really hard in some places & steep! Totally worth it.These pictures make me want to go hike it again right now.

Lighthouse at the top

Soooo HOT & HUMID!!! We reached the top at the lighthouse & my face was so red from sweating so much. I don't know if we could have made it that day without the wind.

nice view

Another great view. Every hill you climbed rewarded you with another amazing view.

Ben & Henry checking on the surf below

finally going down hill

Most of this trail is either straight up or down..not much in between

happy picture!

we surfed here a few times. Wategos bay

SOOOO WINDY!!!

Way over in the distance you can see the "pilots only" take off point for the hang gliders near the top of the closest peak.

Here it is. This is funny. You just walk up on this random "runway" off a cliff. There is a gate that you could just walk around if you wanted to, but hopefully you wouldn't, because it's a serious drop off the other side as you can see in the picture above.

Home!!

At the airport
Henry was crawling away as fast as he could! We could not keep him in one place.

Mama chasing him down,

Caught him!!!!

New friend checking out the airplane!

At Henry's great grandparent's house in the Teanaway....feeding the cat Henry style.

ooohhhh...snowball.

learning about snow.

snowy road

So pretty here!!

View from grandparent's driveway

Grandparent's house

Alice attack!!! She thought Henry's hair looked sooooo delicious.

grumpy Henry, because Alice got the graham crackers.

the argument over the graham crackers

pulling everything out of the cupboards

there are the graham crackers again.

Henry sitting in his dump truck looking out the window

bowls make awesome helmets!

little man & dad fixing light bulbs.

driving grandpa's boat

Beautiful mount Baker from Blakely.

taken from the boat next to Blakely.

Huge tree came down

massive root ball across the road

another view from the island.

Here we are!

Grandpa & Henry

Learning about moss.

Learning to sail

Henry & grandpa with matching hats

The new view from Henry's crib....not too bad!