It was a long time coming, but I got to go back to Australia in April/2006. Unlike my Sydney trips in 1998, this time I was in Melbourne doing some training on a project I was involved in.

The weather was not too great, on my 2 days of downtime, so the photos have a lot of overcast skies. On this trip, I visited the Healesville Sanctuary which has free-roaming critters and exhibits. Unfortunately, the koala was the hardest to photograph...they just stayed still, sleeping in their trees. The Tasmanian Devils were the coolest, but ... (more)