More station pics

Dan on the jet ski-- scary stuff

Sammi and I ready to knee board

The horses

Dan, the koala and I. I can't tell you how we grabbed it for legal reasons, just note the welding gloves he is wearing.

Random old photos from the station

Dan and Bow crossing the creek

Bruce 'riding the buck' out of Novy, Josie's pony

Tom and Josie after successfully catching 4 cockatoos and 2 Galah's in our bird trap.

Bush fire

Snow Monkeys

After Kyoto we went on to Nagano where we stayed in a traditional Japanese Ryokan which was definitely out of our budget but was a pretty awesome place. We went to see the infamous snow monkeys. These are the only cold weather monkeys in the world and they come down from the mountains and bathe in the natural hot springs in the mountains. Now, I should inform you that these photos were not taken by a professional, but by Dan Goodson himself, but he thinks they could win some top prizes.

Japan part deux

A token photo of the van for Laur.


(Doing as the Japanese do)

Ahoy hoy from Byron Bay! I must apologize for the delays in blogs, but when you live on a station 150 k from town and the internet goes down it takes quite a long time for things to get back into action. Now, we were in Japan ages ago as you know but I had to post some photos of our time in Kyoto and Nagano. When we travel we always try and do as the locals do... with a few fun touristy things thrown in of course, so when we arrived in Kyoto and saw that as many people ride bikes there as they do in the Netherlands we had to jump on the bandwagon. This was very thrilling and rather reminiscent of our time in Toronto minus the bikes being stolen. Did I mention that the Japanese are very honest? The day passed in a blur as we visited as many temples and shrines as we could, most of the names now I have sadly forgotten.