I remember my favourite things (about Australia)
Lens title contains some of the words from the song made famous by Julie Andrews in The Sound Of Music. Picture from Wikipedia
My favourite butterfly
Ulysses
Photo:Wikipedia. Photographer: Brian McKenna, 2007
The Ulysses is the symbol for Jan T's Utopia.
One of my favourite views
The Bridge over Sydney Harbour
Photo: Creative Commons Licence. Photographer: Adam.J.W.C.
Sydney Harbour Bridge
on Amazon
Sydney Harbour (Sydney Harbour Bridge, Skyline and Opera House, Australia) White Wood-Mounted Art Poster Print - 12" X 36"
Amazon Price: (as of 12/26/2009)
Guess what?
My favourite largest things
in Australia (and the world)
Sydney — Australia's largest
city
Newcastle — the largest
non-capital city in Australia
Fraser Island, Queensland — largest
sand island in the world
Lake Macquarie — Australia's largest
coastal salt-water lake
Stockton Sand Dunes — the largest
moving sand dunes in Australia
Uluru — Ayers Rock — largest
monolith in the world
Great Barrier Reef — the world's largest
coral reef
Mt. Kosciuszko — our highest
mountain
Q1 — the world's tallest
residential building- Images from Wikipedia,
Gold Coast Tourism,
Lake Macquarie Council
Listen to Tony Bennet sing
My Favourite Things
My favourite things: the song
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My Favourite Things
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Perennial favourite, a jazz standard
One of my favourite songs to sing
A few of my favourite historical places
in Australia
- Historic Houses Trust
Elizabeth Farm
- Cadman's Cottage - City of Sydney
This sandstone structure was built on the shores of Sydney Cove in 1815-16 as the Coxswain's Barracks.
- SILVERTON NSW - Historic Buildings at Silverton
Discover Silverton in outback NSW a living, breathing part of Australia's history
- Miegunyah - Queensland Women's Historical Association
Brisbane's Living Heritage Network : Miegunyah
- Newstead House
Brisbane's Living Heritage Network: Newstead House
- Wentworth Gaol - Wentworth Heritage & Historic
Discover Murray River
- Port Arthur Historic Site - Tasmania - Australia
A penal settlement rich in history of Australia's convict past.
My favourite island paradise
Dunk Island
I've been there twice and would go again in a minute!
Photo: Queensland Tourism
Beautiful Dunk Island books, posters
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My favourite Aussie building
The Sydney Opera House
I went to see Ross Ryan and Helen Reddy in the opening month.
Photo: Wikimedia
Sydney Opera House fun stuff
on Amazon
Want to go up? Or down?
this will help
Favourite trip
in Australia
Cape York Peninsular is at the very top of Australia's mainland and is affectionately known as 'The Tip".
Ruggedly beautiful, wild, one of Australia's last frontiers. The last time we visited these falls, there was a crocodile in the water beneath.
History making, apparently!
Eliot Falls on the Jardine River, almost at the tip.
Photo courtesy: Tourism Queensland
Cape York buys
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Australia in pictures
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More about my Australia
and about me
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Only 25 things! Let's see... There's... and then there's... oh yes... then... there's... just too many to pick from! Big Wheels Keep-a-Turning, 30" x 30" by Jan T Urquhart. 1990. Isometric perspective, 3D quilt.
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- Ramkitten Ramkitten Dec 7, 2009 @ 3:16 pm
- Now I have the song stuck in my head. I love "Sound of Music" and the song, so it's not a bad thing. Anyhow, I enjoyed seeing some of your favorite things in these photos. I'd love to eventually see many of them in person.
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- JanTUB JanTUB Dec 8, 2009 @ 3:27 pm
- Come and see us, the door's always open downunder!
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- JanTUB JanTUB Jun 24, 2009 @ 2:15 am | in reply to C-Joy
- If you tell me I'll meet you at the airport!
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- C-Joy C-Joy Jun 24, 2009 @ 12:40 am
- I haven't been to Australia.......yet! I'll let you know when my plane lands :) Great lens!
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- JanTUB JanTUB Jun 17, 2009 @ 3:22 am | in reply to Pmona
- Why, thank you ma'am. ;>)
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