March 9, 2012 | 2 comments
Perth is a beautiful city with breath-taking scenes of water and beaches nearby. It is not what I envisioned before I arrived. I expected to find an isolated modern city stuck out in the middle of a huge desert with
March 9, 2012 | 3 comments
It happened! The Perth group found me a tennis player to hit balls with. During a couple of free hours Monday morning, I got to freshen up my tennis game. I’ve never played on grass courts before. It’s quite different
March 8, 2012 | 5 comments
Ah, at last, some sunny, dry, hot weather. Perth had it all! Running in the 90s F during the day, with hardly a cloud in sight, I was in my element. Dry, too. Some locals were complaining it was too hot. As far
March 7, 2012 | 4 comments
Back to Sydney I flew last Saturday for a noon-time lecture at the downtown Reading Room in that city. Rain, rain, rain…in voluminous amounts this part of the country was receiving that week. Reports were that the size of the
March 7, 2012 | 6 comments
While taking a quick run through the Australian Museum of Natural Science, mostly because I wanted to see the display of dinosaur skeletons on the third level, I side-stepped into an exhibit on poisonous reptiles in Australia. The below panel