Here´s an example of the eucalyptus trees that grow in the area around Canberra where a big big fire a few years ago burned an enormous area down. You see the black trunks and they look as if they are dead but the new branches start to grow on them.


Nye grene vokser ud New branches start to grow.


Paper eucalyptus. Used by the artists in Australia. I brought home what I could find room for.


Paper eucalyptus


Felted jacket at the Floriade festival in Canberra


View over Canberra the government residence of Australia. A beautiful town built on an area that was only nature, and therefore many ideas of ideal town constructions could be fulfilled here.


On our way to Alice Springs


Here Merete and her husband Jens are playing real tourists at the hotel in Alice Springs.


Start on our adventure tour to Ayers Rock.


First stop was on a camel farm.


We could even get a tour on the camel.


Karl (our guide and chauffeur) is sawing wood for our campfire in the evening. 


Tour in 40 degrees heat in The Olgas.


Tour in 40 degrees heat in The Olgas.


Tour around Ayers Rock


At many of the holy places we were not allowed to take photos, but here it was allowed and this place is called the wave. It is where the young aboriginal boys had their ceremony. Further on we saw the women's place, but we were not allowed to take photos there. 


This is one of our tentcamps at the tour.


This is not an animal, it is a flower. 


This is the most fantastic tour we had. It was in Kings Canyon and in the middle of this area we also saw The Garden of Eden but is impossible to describe this place in words and on a photo.


The morning sun was giving the cliffs a fantastic colour.


Another fantastic eucalyptus tree.


Amazing


Suddenly Karl stopped the bus and asked if we wanted to see wild camels, and here´s one. There are 600.000 living wild and farmers earn their money by catching them and export them.


This flower is called bottlebrush.


Jens shows this palm leaf that I brought home. I had many difficulties in the airports explaining what it was, before I could get through the security.


This was a fantastic feeling: to stand with a warm soft koala in my arms.


Merete is feeding the kangaroo while Jens and our host Ulla Turner from the Danish association in Brisbane is looking.


We spent hours looking at those fantastic koalas. Here´s one with two kids.


One of our really unforgettable experiences was to visit the rainforest south of Brisbane. Ulla Turner was a wonderful guide there.


The rainforest south of Brisbane.


Merete is "attacked" because she has something to eat.


They land everywhere.


These trees were so fantastic.


More variations


More variations


Here I am in Melbourne on a tour with Sandra Pyke up at a mountain where I saw new variations of the eucalyptus tree. Here it lets its bark fall down in long skirts on the trunk.


We saw those strange parasitic plants in the rainforests and here in Sandra Pykes garden.


Sandras dyed wool is drying in the garden.


This is just one little corner I Leah Jones`s and her husbonds wonderful peaceful garden.


Leahs orange tree.


Real orange juice 


From our visit at Georgina Tolands merinofarm.


Jan Clement and John took us to this wonderful waterfall.


Merete had to buy some extra bags to get room for all the felt material we had bought. Here she is sewing the bag to be sure it does not fall apart.