Jenolan Caves, going down the Plughole!

Spéléologie dans les caves de Jenolan.

Schtroumpfs style!

Caving (Spelunking) in the Jenolan caves.

Smurf style!

En rouge et bleu, voila notre guide... on va bien se marrer!! le Grand Schtroumpfs.

In red and blue, here's our guide... Papa Smurf!!

Decente en rappel pour acceder la grotte.

Rappelling (abseiling) into the cave.

et voila, les pieds de Brigette.

et voila, the feet of Brigette.

On se faufile.

Gotta suck it in!

On a fiere allure!

Brigette looks like Nerdy McNerderson.

The Blue Mountains

Deux heures et demi de train de Sydney, 15 degres plus froid, les Blue Mountains!

One weekend, we took the train from Sydney, and met Brigette and Geoff in the Blue Mountains for a nice getaway. Unfortunately, it was much colder than we were getting used to, but luckily the house that we rented had a wood burning stove!

Au depart de notre premiere randonnee dans le bush australien!

Des arbres qui pelent.

On our bushwalks, you often see these trees, which have been extraexfoliated.

Lichen et cascade.

Going to explore some caves.

Just a little bit of birdseed results in a lot of pretty birds.

Another bushwalk led us to this enormous waterfall.

19eme siecle style photo!

Coogee to Bondi, a Winter day in August

Apres 20 minutes de bus, Coogee Beach.

Vue depuis la falaise au Nord de la plage .

One thing to do on a nice day is take a walk from Coogee beach to Bondi beach. There's a coastal walk way (boardwalk), and the pleasant walk takes about 1.5-2h. Everyday, throngs of people use this path for exercise, and although we haven't seen 'em yet, apparently it's not uncommon to see the likes of Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman, or Hugh Jackman going for a stroll.

Une des quelques plagettes que l'on trouve au long de la promenade.

Gordons Bay

Along the way, there's several small beaches set into the rocky coast.

Jolie travail de mosaique!

Au loin Coogee.

A cote du cimetière Waverley.

Next to Waverley cemetery, beautiful sea front, isn't it?

toujours a cote du cimetiere avec Bronte et Tamarama's Bay en arriere plan.

Bronte Beach

Entre Mackenzies Bay et Bondi Beach.

Sydney, Home Sweet Home

Well, it's been a while but we've finally updated the blog! Here's some pictures of our room in our house. We're located in Surry Hills, a neat area of Sydney, in a 19th cent. "terrace house" (a typical Australian house style).

Depuis le mois de Juillet nous avons emmenager dans une "terrace house" de Surry Hills. Et nous louons la chambre qui donne cote rue, avec large balcon, s'il vous plait! On partage la maison avec trois australiens, Emma, Matt et Paul.

Both of us have full time jobs... Flora's working at an architecture firm in Woolloomooloo (the Aboriginal-derived names for Australian towns are quite fun to say).

And Gerald is working for a dealer of fine luxury watches (www.clockmaker.com.au).

Sydney Harbour