On the way Down Under! Sunrise over Australia from the flight :)
Australien 2009!
Thanks to you all Down
Under for making our visit to a great adventure!
Thanks for letting us stay at your homes, food, drinks & really great
company!!!
You are really GREAT!!! You are most welcome to Sweden!
We would love to do the same for you...
It was really great to
see so many open and nice dogs!
Could have taken MANY of them with me home....
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Here you can see Christinas photos from Australia!
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On the way Down Under! Sunrise over
Australia from the flight :)
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We landed in Sydney in the morning 4 November.
Foto: Anna
Foto: Stina
In Sydney 4 November, walking around waiting for the afternoon to come,
so we could get on the train to Pauline & Pete in Woodstock.
The first "train" going west from
Sydney!
After a travel for a few hours with train & bus at last we met again! So good to see you folks again!
At Pauline's & Pete's in Woodstock, NSW.
Sweet Pete!
Beautiful flowers from the garden!
!!!!!!!!!! Foto:
Stina
Pauline's & Pete's Lara.
Tua.
AUSTCH Mimbil Burnt Offerings, "Dixie".
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November 5
The next day Pauline took us up to Dubbo, to Fiona & Brian, Eurowenban kennels. Far to drive, thanks Pauline!!!
On the way to Fiona & Brian.
Brian.
Fiona.
Nice 14 years old AUSTCH Eurowenban Full On Aces, "Ace". Ace is the
father of Anna's Eurowenban Turbo.
Foto:
Anna
Ace
Eurowenban Blessed Be, "Ginger".
Eurowenban Hes A Trooper, "Trooper"
Really great to meet you and your nice dogs! Thanks for letting us visit you!
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November 6
This day we went to
Tegoura kennels with Pauline.
Truely nice to see you and your beautiful dogs again Dianne!! And really nice to
meet Sharon also :)
At Tegoura kennels.
Anna & Sharon's cute little daugther :) Foto:
Stina
Tegoura puppies :)
Puppies!!!!!!!!!!! Foto:
Stina
Sharon & ?? Foto:
Stina
Anna & Tegoura Black Angus Foto:
Stina
Tegoura Black Angus, "Angus"
AUST GR CH KLA Rebels Beau
AUSTCH Tegoura I'm A Devil, "Bruce"
AUSTCH Tegoura Dance with Bears
AUSTCH Mimbil Dark Reason
AUSTCH Tegoura the Chase
AUSTCH Tegoura Simply a Rebel
Tegoura Lachrea
On the way to Tegoura...A flat Brown snake.... blää!
In the evening we went back to Sydney. Bye Pauline and thanks again!
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November 7
We got on a bus tour around
the town and also to Bondai beach. Did some shopping at the Market place also.
Big cities are not my favourite places, so not so many pictures...
Sydney: Bondi beach.
Mureena at Sydney Aquarium.
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November 8
Landed in Yulara in the middle of the day. HOT!!!! We took a walk trough the
desert to the shopping centre and back. Then some lazy time by the pool :)
One of the evenings we had a BBQ with kangaroo, crocodile, emu and lots of
salads, fruits etc.. Mmmmmm!!
Out in the red centre - Yulara/Ayers Rock.
In the Outback Pioneer pool - Anna & Stina.
Mmmm!!
Aussie BBQ!
Our hotel. Foto:
Anna
The way up to the lookout point.
In the evening - same place, but another red tone.
Sunset over Katatjuta.
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November 9
Two tours this day! Uluru
in the morning and Katatjuta in the afternoon. Great sceneries!!!
Between the
two adventures we had some nice time by the pool :)
The walk in Walpa Gorge at Katatjuta was HOT!!! Around 38 degrees at the
bus-parking. How hot was it in between the walls.....?!?!
Before walking in there, we stopped by a little WC. Almost burnt my bum off on
the seat. Jises!! And the water-tap that said COLD... so burning hot water
:0
Don't you Aussies know the difference between HOT or COLD ;-)
Waiting for the bus to Uluru. To early....
Uluru before sunrise.
Uluru in sunrise.
Beautiful!!!!
Katatjuta in the horizon.
Uluru.
Uluru.
The three musketeers :)
Gunbarrell High Way...!
Katatjuta.
Katatjuta, Walpa Gorge. A HOT walk!!! Surely over 40 degrees.....
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November 10
Landed in Brisbane in the
evening. Mandy picked us up at the airport and took us to Lisa's & Eric's.
We met at last!
A very nice evening with Lisa, Eric, Mandy and Lee-Anne who also came over :)
Really great to meet you again, Lee-Anne! Great to see Tacker also. A truely nice dog! And his friend Kelly, that Lisa
& Eric saved from the pound. A cute girl.
In bed with Tacker & Kelly :) Foto:
Stina
Tacker & Kelly. Foto:
Stina
Kelly. Foto:
Anna
AUSTCH Callicoma Maher HIC, "Tacker". A REALLY NICE DOG!!!
Glad that we have his semen here!
Here with his sight on the ball.
Tacker again.
Tacker Foto: Stina
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November 11
With Mandy & Lisa visiting Dianne, Oatland kennels. You have handsome and
nice dogs, Dianne! Thanks for letting us visit you!
At Oatland kennels with Mandy & Lisa.
The happy pups are Oatland Hoo Doo & Kit Kat.
Anna & Oatland Priscilla? Foto:
Stina
AUSTCH Oatland Woop Woop
AUSTCH Oatland Gunnadoo
AUSTCH Oatland Piccaninny
AUSTCH Oatland Tigerlilly
AUSTCH Oatland Warrior
Oatland Hoo Doo - cute pup!
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On the way to Grafton we
stopped by and met "Jude".
Callicoma The Joker, "Jude" ( Callicoma Maher/Callicoma Ruby Red
)
A bit flossy pic', but he was into the camera all the time :) So, a quick pic'
when he was calm ;-)
Nice boy!
We also stopped by another friend of Mandy's, ( name...) with 2 dogs, rescued from the pound. A big male, probably a pure-bred kelpie and a WK-girl. Very nice to meet you and the sweet dogs! Thanks for the coffee :)
Late in the evening we finally came to Mandy's and Bill's, Callicoma kennels.
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November 12
At Callicoma.
You have a
really beautiful home and lots of space for your dogs, really a great place!
Thanks a lot for our stay!!!
We were really spolied!!! Hope to be able to come again and also do a little
training. Hope that your back is better, Mandy!
Nice & open dogs, nice
talking, photographing & relaxing this day. In the evening in the SPA with
Stina :)
We also met Nicole & Merlot during the day, great to meet you at last :)
Merlot is a really nice guy!
And in the evening we met 2
more Callicoma-kelpies, Dancer, "Starr" & Pinot Noir,
"Paris" with their owner Elisabeth. Nice!
Callicoma kennels - the driveway, pic' taken
from the gate.
Mandy's & Bill's SPA!!! Foto:
Anna
Callicoma-dogs swimmingpool :)
Bill & some of the dogs at beautiful
Callicoma kennels.
A few of the dogs:
AUSTCH Callicoma Orion ET - "Bundy"
"Bundy" again.
"Bundy"
Ballare Katya - wet after a swim :)
AUSTCH Callicoma Blacksmith ET HT - "Smithy"
"Smithy"
Callicoma
The Tempest ADM JDM ET PT JDO ADO GDX SPDX SD AAD
- "Tempo"
AUSTCH Callicoma Bronze Beauty - "Billee"
"Billee"
Ch.
Callicoma Ruby Red CCD AD JDX GD SD SPD ET HT - "Ruby"
Callicoma Trump Card - "Trumps".
Trumps is a young daugther of Tacker & Ruby.
Trumps
Trumps again.
AUSTCH Tegoura King Othmountn ET -
"Harry"
"Harry"
AUSTCH Spectre Blacklock - "Wattle",
Tacker's mother.
Wattle
AUSTCH Callicoma Black Friday - "Friday".
Friday
AUSTCH Oatland Chieftan ET, "Chief".
Foto: Stina
"Chief" Foto:
Stina
AUSTCH Callicoma Leica ET HT, "Leica"
Foto: Stina
AUSTCH Callicoma Merlot ET PT, "Merlot"
Foto: Stina
A neighbour, about 30 meters away :)
A whole gang!
Mandy also showed all her
hips X-rays to us. Thanks for that!!! As you know, we are no scoring veterinarians, but we have all seen lots of
pictures. Mandys dogs looked good :) You are doing a great job with scoring,
Mandy!!
A strange thing - Callicoma Cosmic with 6:7
looked OK to us!!!!
Here she is - and
depending on our curiosity kindly checked by one of the Swedish Kennelclubs
scorers - with the diagnos: looks really good! Just what we thought ;-) Thank
you SKK!!!
Important to see the pictures if we want to import, as a "high" scored dog can be OK!? There are differences down there, depending on who
is scoring the dogs and also to how the vets. here score. As for an example a
dog with the scores 1:1 and International grade A had those points for fossa (
på svenska pålagringar ) and if the hips are so good, there can not be any
fossa! That dog was also checked in Sweden, and... NO fossa.
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November 13
Mandy & Bill took us a bit on the way to Brisbane. Driving at the Gold Coast
- beautiful! Some shopping during the way also, Billabong & Rip Curl. Went in to a pet shop
to have a look and they
had pups and kittens in cages - had to go out and cry a little.... AWFUL!!!
We took the train from there to Brisbane, Cabolture station, where Lee-Anne met
us. Some talk and a couple of Mudshakes in the evening with Lee-Anne.
She has "Tammys" daugther AUST GR CH Suthenskys Satisfaction HT, "Phoenix".
Really a lot as her mother :) Phoenix is in pups with Lee-Anne's AUSTCH
Suthenskys Shamelesstar CD HIC, "Shamus". She also has two young boys,
Myriahill Baringa, "Devin" & Suthenskys Single N Luvn It, "Jasper". Nice
guys, very interesting for the future :)
Unfortunately no good photos of the boys, hope that Stina & Anna got some...
Well, here is "Phoenix" anyway :)
So much looking and acting as her mother - I called her Tammy a few times....
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November 14
We were invited to Di at Oatland kennels again. She served us a great lunch.
Thanks! We had a nice day with dog-talking.
In the evening Lee-Anne took us to an obedience-competition. Very interesting to
see! Some exercises are similar to ours and some are different.
Lee-Anne was competing with "Shamus" and they got their pass, 2:nd
place & the CD-title :) CONGRATULATIONS!
I was to nervous to look, only saw a little of their program... I'm getting more
nervous to see someone I know competing than to compete my self..!
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November 15
This day we had a clinic at Metropolitan Dog Obedience Club. We were talking about the ground before training - as environment-training, trust, cooperation, control, rewards in different ways, playing etc. etc. We were practicing playing and heeling-training and also showed some DVD's with training, competitions & mentaltests from Sweden. They were very satisfied with the day :)
In the evening we went out for dinner with Lee-Anne, Aldo ( the chairman of the club ) and his wife... ( me and names...) A real nice evening. Thank you!
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November 16
We took the train to
Brisbane with Lee-Anne and did some shopping. We also met Aldo's wife for lunch.
Nice to meet again!
After that we went to South Bank for a swim in the pool :)
A day in Brisbane. Stina, Lee-Anne & Anna.
A creature living in Brisbane, Southbank :)
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November 16
In the morning Lee-Anne took us to the airport, for our flight to Cairns.
Thank you Lee-Anne, for nice days!!! It was a real pleasure!!!!!
In Cairns we rested by the pool and later on took a walk down town.
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November 17
Stina & I were picked up in Kuranda by Jan Bradley. Jan is a friend of
Mountainmist-Jan.
Really nice to meet you! We had a nice drive with lots of good talking!
Thank you!
Jan has 2 cattle dogs. Here's the 11 years old guy "Barron"
Foto: Jan Bradley
He won Best in Show recently - not looking like 11, eh?!
Out in Atherton Tablelands on the way to Mountainmist kennels. We stopped by a
famous big Curtain Fig Tree, and YES!!
It was BIG! See above!
Jungle...
A flower from Jan's ( Mountainmist ) beautiful garden! Klevia - I have 2 of
these in pots in my windows - but much smaller!
Jan Bradley & Jan Shaw.
We had a very nice day
with a great fruit-lunch and dogtalking. Jan is very open about her dogs.
And so have the other breeders that we met also been. If we asked something we
got honest answers. GREAT!
Lorroy On The Run, "Nitro", 7
months. ( AUST GR CH Mountainmist Mandingo / AUST CH Lorroy Silly Mid On )
I fell in love with this young boy. ( And with more dogs down there also... ) I wish I could buy
him... and a few others :)
"Nitro"
A girl with attitude :) AUSTCH
Mountainmist Sheza Rebel, "Rosie".
AUSTCH Mountainmist
Didjeridu,"Boy".
Jan & the old guy, celebrating his 14 birthday!
Misty mountains in the back
Jan Bradley had to leave in the afternoon. Mountainmist-Jan took us back to Cairns and on the way for a tour to some waterfalls, including the famous Millaa Millaa :)
Milla Milla falls, unfortunately in the dry season.
Zillie falls.
Another fall - the name will come...
In the evening we went out
with Jan for dinner at an Asian restaurant. Mmm!
Thank you for a really plesant day, Jan!
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November 18
We were picked up at the hotel for transport to Kuranda Skyrail. The skyrail is 7 km's and has 2 stops on the way up to Kuranda. Well, we saw mostly rainforest on the way, green, green & green :)
Barron river - pic' taken from Kuranda Skyrail.
A koala in Kuranda.
A wallaby in Kuranda.
We strolled around Kuranda Markets, did some shopping, as Mango-wine and a real tropical dress :) Purple with pink flowers on it! Yepp, to use in the tropics :)) Maybe not at home...
Kuranda Scenic Railway station.
Waiting for the train to leave.
Barron Falls - unfortunately in the dry season....
Back in Cairns in late
afternoon - don't remember exactly what we did - probably had a walk down town,
some food & beer...
The Kuranda tour was nice, but not worth the price... Well, now it is done!
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November 19
We went to a 4-wheeldrive
tour up to Cape Tribulation, Daintree National Park and Mossman Gorge. Passed
trough Port Douglas also. In Port' they have no junk-food and "tourist-things".
Cape Tribulation-beach was BEAUTIFUL! A big strange to see the nice blue sea and
not be able to swim... because of the "salties"! Well, it was very
clear water and no croc's around, so we could put a finger into the water - just
in the waterline, in the open area, FAR from the mangrove-area that was in the
end of the beach - warm & salt water! Maybe a bit stupid, but we are still
alive ;-) But I would NOT do that in the dark Daintree River that we were on tour
on later that day - NO WAY!!!
Rainforest in Daintree National Park - the oldest living and growing rainforest
on earth.
A cassiowary in Kuranda. A bird that is very much cared for.
They are very important to the rainforest and it is a treathened species. Lives
in Nothern Queensland.
Looking in one direction: Cape Tribulation mangrove swamps...
....and in the other direction - a beautiful beach! With handsome ladies :)
Unfortunately no swimming.....
A coconut :)
In Daintree rainforest - a beautiful creek!
This view is from our lunch-place this day :) We got a very tasty lunch, wine,
fruit & coffee here!
A sign by Daintree River.
No croc's in sight this day :(
No heads, arms or legs outside this boat!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bläää!!! But dead and captured ;-) :))
A sign by Mossman Gorge.
Beautiful, but not so big differences to our creeks here at home - except for
the rainforest of course ;-)
A fantastic tour with a very good guide -talking all the time :) Could do it again!
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November 20
A day resting for Stina
& me. Anna went to Tully River for rafting - extreme rafting. You are crazy,
Anna ;-)
On of the prices for rafting :))
A bit rainy in the morning this day, so hot and humid later on.
We went to the fruitmarket and bougth lots of fruits for next days lunch at Fitzroy
Island. And for this day also. The mango was brilliant!!!!!!!! Mmmmm! We tasted
some wine at the market, so we were a little drunk when we left the market....
:))
Back at the hotel we had an hour in the sun and a swim in the pool.
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November 21
Fitzroy Island! Only 14
people on the catamaran out to the island :) Beautiful Island - no comments
needed!
We were told to use stingersuits for our security - and we did. Pictures to come
:)) There is one in Stinas gallery :)
In Cairns, quite "bad" weather in the harbour, but....
...out here - nice and sunny!
Mostly coralls - just a litte sand here and
there on the beach
A big lizzard - just walking by!!
Shark Fen Bay :)
An epifyt.
Thanks again to you all for your
great hospitality & nice company Down Under!
And to Stina & Anna - we had a great time!!!!!!! When shall we do it again.........