I am back from my 4-week trip in Australia

I am back in Vancouver, BC, and back to work. And hard to find time to
organize my ten thoushandspicture.

And I start writing my own travellog. It is here.
If you are having troubles with the link above, please try this link.
The Australian portion not yet started. I just finished the pre-trip part!
I started from Oct 10. On Oct 13, we caught the flight. On Oct 14, we waste no time and visited Narita, a lovely historial Japanese town while we were proposed in transit!

Enjoyable time in Narita

Landing off to Tokyo

We had seven hour free either at the airport or at the town. Of course, we chose the town!

The customs people say we should line in another queue for transit. But we expressed strong interest to go to the town. And he says yes, "you got lots of time.
The historical town of Nairta was just 10mins from the airport.

We took the Keisei railway to go there ($250).

There was ceremony and performance to celebrate the birth of Nairta town. And lots of school kids carry some "fishing rods" (for performance?)

We at first could not find the historical street. And we went to a donut shop to eat noodle! It was the first ever microwaved wild veggie noodle I purchase. Taste okay, but small in quantity.

By the time we hit the historical street the celebration was close to the end. I want to visit the temple, but mom was to afraid to follow the street as it was very dark and shops are closing.
One thing worth to mention is that the cars of Narita were cutely small. I want one!

We get to a noodle shop (on the historical street) again when time is close to 8. Many western travelers were there. Unfortunately, the noodle was not authentic Japanese. We were quite disappointed.
See my photo album!
http://iconhatch.tripod.com/pretrip.html

Moreton Island: Ready for dolphin feeding - Moreton Island, Australia

Moreton Island: Ready for dolphin feeding - Moreton Island, Australia

Moreton Island, Australia

Actually, Fraser Island was high on my wish list. However, we were very short of time. Not even bear the time to transport to Harvery Bay from Brisbane.

So Moreton Island is our next best.
We did sand sliding and dolphin feeding all in one day.

Miss Traveling - wandering after work,

It had been two months after I leave waterton park.

It is raining hard in Vancouver. With time switch back from summer daylight-saving time, it gets dark as eary as 4:40pm. It is very depressing. And hard to take picture after afterwork when it is both wet and dark.

Well, I should have another cup of coffee after my work instead.

Back from Oz

I returned from my first ever big trip last week. And still suffer from jet lag.
Australia is a big country. But the major cities are very comparable to North America's. Like the road signs, buildings, shops, etc. Maybe both of them were British colonies.