Happy Australia Day!!

[Kiwi_cruiser]

To all the Aussies here on Cruise Critic, Happy Australia Day!!

 

I hope you all have a great Australia Day!! :cool:

 

[Aussie Gal]

Thanks Kiwi Cruisers. We will have a good one, just wish our bushfires were out. A big thank you to all the volunteers who belong to the Rural Fire Brigades. They do an incredible job and go out when called immediatley never thinking of themselves.

 

Today is when we should all give thanks for being so lucky to live in the best country in the world - New Zealand a close second! When one travels, it makes one appreciate what we have here at home. We are just so lucky and I wish that everyone who lives here would appreciate what we have, great beaches, wonderful scenery, a great standard of living, clean air and no wars!

 

Jennie

[Jacs]

Well said Aussie Gal, Halpy Australia Day everyone!

[Billy and Charlie's Mum]

 

Pacific Pearl in Sydney Harbour this morning! Love it!

[Kiwi_cruiser]

 

Pacific Pearl in Sydney Harbour this morning! Love it!

 

Not too happy about that :p, as she was meant to be NZ's ship :p

 

:D

[Kiwi_cruiser]

Sydney harbour, with the Pacific Pearl in the middle of it all:

 

 

[K-Roo-Zers]

Hi All,

 

Well said Jenny. Hope Peter is now on the mend.

 

Eileen, what fabulous pictures! Love the menagerie.

 

How about the wild weather here? I reckon the dunny races may have been washed out. Not such a good day to fire up the barbie, buy hey, we desperately need the rain.

 

Nicki

[Aussie Gal]

Hi Nicki,

 

Peter is fine and we are off again in March. Wish you could send some of that lovely rain down here. We haven't seen a drop since the end of November!

 

Australia is so true to my favourite poem - My Country by Dorothea Mackellar which often brings tears to my eyes when I read it or recite it, as I am sure we all had to learn it off pat in primary school. If we aren't having droughts we are having flooding rains.

 

Jennie

[wildweston]

Great australia day here, we are flooding and have been hit with two tornadoes, a lot of damage and one man critically injured !!

[Sandielle]

Thanks KC. Chez, I saw pics of Bargara - certainly got battered. We've just had rain, lovely rain. Hoping my dead lawn and garden will revive after this. I hope it makes it all the way to the fires.