Finding joy in the everyday

Art Friday: The seaside As summer draws to an end in Australia, I thought I would share some seaside photos I took back in January when I visited my family in South Australia. Whilst we have had some very nasty hot days, on this particular day it was quite cool and the wind made it a little brisk. Far too cool for swimming, which is why the beaches are empty of people — a rare sight in the middle of summer. I hope you enjoy these sunny imagines. Happy Friday to you all. Might have been cool, but it was nice to wet my feet in the sea. Not what one expects at the beach - organisers were settle up tables for a seaside dinner for the "Tour Down Under" cycling event. Normanville Beach, South Australia My brothers hat went flying off his head and landed in the water, this young lass went off to felt it for him. 

These are the very last of my holiday photos from a few months ago — for those not familiar with Australia, these photos are taken in the Blue Mountains (just outside of Sydney, New South Wales) is called "The Three Sisters".  According to Australian Indigenous dream-time legend three sisters ('Meehni', 'Wimlah' and Gunnedoo') where turned to stone.  These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law forbade them to marry.  The brothers were not happy to accept this law and so decided to use force to capture the three sisters causing a major tribal battle.  As the lives of the three sisters were seriously in danger, a witchdoctor from the Katoomba tribe took it upon himself to turn the three sisters into stone to protect them from any harm. While he had intended to reverse the spell when the battle was over, the witchdoctor himself was killed. As only he could reverse the spell to ...

On my recent trip to Western Plains Zoo (Dubbo) we had the pleasure of meeting this lovely family of African lions and it was such a delight to see the three newish cubs. The cubs were born on the 28th of February 2015 and it is the first time this zoo has been successful in breeding lions. There is one male cub (Baako) and two little girls (Makeba and Zuri).  Thanks to a telescopic lens I was able to take some photos of these majestic creatures who were some distance from where we were standing and not overly willing to move any closer.  My cat Ruby loves to do this!! Big cats and little cats do like to do similar things Mr Three loves big cats and took his toy lion (Billy) to see the real lions. Billy had a very good time!!  If you missed the photos of the cuddle koalas: LINK Don't forget this weeks GIVEAWAY :   http://jo-stophaveachat.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/giveaway-animal-blankies.html *****

Dear Blogger friends and family, I have been away on an exciting adventure with two lovely ladies (cousins of mine) and two smallish children.  We went to the Western Plains Zoo (Dubbo) which is around 400kms north west of Sydney (248 miles). We spent 4 nights in Dubbo and two days at the the zoo. Over the next few weeks I will share some of the photos I took — todays photos are of the cutest and cuddliest creature of all — the Australian Koala and as you can see — these photos are of a mother and her baby.  For those who want to know more about the Koala (and no they are not a bear even if they look like one) check out this LINK . After a wonderful relaxing week, I am back to work on Monday — up with the birds at 5:45am, no more sleeping in (not that I did much of that whilst on holidays!). Like all good things, they come to an end and all that is left is beautiful memories and photos to share!!  I flew back home yesterday afternoon and quickly unpacke...