April 15. Lunch at the Sydney Tower Restaurant

Saw the sights of Sydney from the Sydney tower restaurant. It revolves once every 70 mins.

April 14. Riding the double decker bus.

Got on a double decker tour bus that took me around Sydney. Spent some time at the Maritime Museum. Highly recommended.

April 12. More images from Sydney

April 12. Back in Sydney. Tourist time.

April 9. Put another snag on the barbie

Had a nice barbie at the cabins. Steaks, snags (sausages), pumpkin, beetroot, potato salad and other tucker. Pass me another VB, mate.

April 9. More images of the observing site

Here are some images of the observing area near Timor Rock. Included are the 25" Obsession and my Televue 102i, a 4" refractor.

April 7. Warrumbungles National Park

Siding Springs Observatory is in the Warrumbungles Mountains National Park which is full of Aussie wildlife and vegetation. We spent a day poking around.

April 6 . Poolside party at the motel

Our motel had a really nice gas grill (barbie) next to the pool. We all chipped in and put on a good feed. Dave Kriege cooked up some shish kabob.

April 6. Side trip to Siding Springs Observator

Today we visited Siding Springs Observatory, home of the largest telescope in Australia. I also saw my first kangaroo and emus.

April 5. Timor Cabins. Our Observing Site

We visit our observing site, the Timor Cabins by Timor Rock west of Coona.

Pile into the rental van and head for Coona. April 4

We picked up our rental van (with right hand drive) and head to Coonabarabran about 250 miles northwest of Sydney. We stopped along the way for lunch and a few times to stretch our legs.

April 3, 2005

Dave took off with a couple of our Aussie hosts to pick up a telescope for our use. Brian, Pat and I set out to explore Darling Harbour.

We start our trip, April 1, 2005

I flew from Appleton, WI to Cincinatti, then to Los Angeles. From I joined Brian Halbrook, Dave Kriege and his sister Pat. We boarded Qantas flight 8 for the 14 hour trip to Sydney, Australia. I left Appleton at 7 AM on Thursday and landed in Sydney at 8:35 PM on Friday. Someone took a day away from us when we crossed the International Date Line. I hope we get it back. We checked into the Holiday Inn near the Chinatown district in Sydney and got a good night's rest.