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Captain Cooks` Endeavor and Captain Blighs`Bounty (kicking out diesel smoke)in Sydneys` Darling Harbour. The eyes have it. Lunar Park entrance on the south bank.

Dolphin watching at Nelson Bay

Not been posting lately as we have been on holiday for some time in Australia. The pictures are of the beach at Newcastle ,we stayed in an apartment in Merewether a few miles south . The animals were pictured in Blackbutt Reserve near Newcastle where you can wander among the gum trees and wildlife just out of town. We took a tour around the Hunter valley wine region with Barry and Best tours.We were the only passengers that day so we got a personalised trip Barry gave us a few diversions

so we saw a lot of Newcastle and then we went to Kurrie Kurrie .Kurrie Kurrie sounds Aboriginal I dont`t know what it means ,but usually if the word is repeated it means that whatever it is its` quick.Kurrie is quite famous recently for the appearance of murals being painted on walls all over town.The murals all have a Kookaburra in them somewhere, so spotting the bird is the game. There was a new mural on the day were there it depicted the convict revolt,the mural coverd a wall at least fifteen meters long and was surely a work of art.

There was also a picture with non other than Father Christmass wearing sandals this was the only one that we could not find the Kookaburra in may-be you can spot it?The wine tour was really good we visited a few vinyards and passed several others including a few famous labels.We also did some cheese tasting.