Even though it took me a long time to feel up to updating this blog again, I continued to upload photos, since it’s generally a pretty mindless activity. I’ve finally made it through my entire backlog of New Zealand pictures, meaning that after this post, there will be no more of the scenic beauty of NZ for me to pass on to you (although I could give you my friend James’ Facebook to look at, since he’s taken well over 22,000 photos in his time in NZ!). However, I hope to keep discovering Perth and the surrounding areas in the coming months, so you’ll get entirely too many Australian photos instead.

I know you guys might have been hoping for a conclusion to my previous post. It is in the works, but I thought I’d get these photos up while I was at the internet cafe.

Without further ado, here’s the list of what’s been added/updated (denoted by a ***):

New Zealand
***Queenstown: more from Deer Park Heights & the Remarkables.
***The Milford Track: from days 3 & 4 of the track (with plenty from going over Mackinnon Pass).
Milford Sound from Land: from around Milford Sound township.
Milford Overnight Cruise: from my overnight on the Milford Wanderer in the beautiful fiord of Milford.
The Kepler Track: from my overnight trek onto the Kepler Track, up to Mt. Luxmore & Luxmore Hut and back.
Kayaking Doubtful Sound: from my 5 hours on remote Doubtful Sound and the long (but stunning) trip to/from the sound.
Warbirds over Wanaka: from the biennial warbirds airshow held at Wanaka airfield.
The West Coast Road: from my day-long bus trip between Wanaka and Franz Josef Glacier.
***Franz Ice Climbing & Quad Biking: plenty more shots of me looking stupid trying to climb ice walls and from the Waiho river valley where I went quad biking the next day.
Drive Across Arthur’s Pass: from my day-long bus trip between Franz Josef Glacier and Christchurch.

Australia
Queensland Sunsets: sunset shots from a few different days in Queensland.
Queensland Flowers: currently only shots of some pink hibiscus in James’ mother’s garden, but I’m hoping to add more when I go back sometime.
Queensland Animals: shots of kookaburras and blue-tongued lizards.
My Australian Family: some of my favorite shots from some photos James’ family and I took while I was up the Sunshine Coast.
Apartments in Perth: pictures from my (very fancy) temporary accommodation. None of my current apartment, and those will probably only be available to “friends” on Flickr once I do add them.
Kings Park: the beautiful Kings Park, which was just up the hill from my temporary accommodation. Also, shots of the ANZAC Day dawn service held at the war memorial there.
Scarborough Beach: my first glimpse of the Indian Ocean!
General Perth: where I’ll chuck all my pictures that don’t fit into other sets from Perth. Right now, it’s just fireworks pictures from a display I was lucky enough to see a couple weeks ago.
John Forrest National Park: the “Australian” pictures everyone is waiting to see. These are from a fun BBQ I went to yesterday up in the hills near Perth. Plenty of red dirt, gum trees, kookaburras, and kangaroos!

Just a quick update, since I’ve procrastinated far too long already on studying for my final tomorrow…

Anyway, I got an interesting email a couple weeks back asking to include one of my pictures of the Shubert Theatre in NY in the most recent Schmap Guide for NY. Apparently Schmap is a cool little service that provides travel guides you can download to your computer. I’d never heard of them before, but they seem to have good information on a lot of places around the globe.

Well, I submitted my picture for consideration without actually knowing which picture of the Shubert it was. Turns out, as you might expect, that it is the one accompanying this entry–me looking goofy and posing in a cardboard cutout outside the theatre. You can’t tell, but I’m telling the silly French knights that their mothers were hamsters and their fathers smelled of elderberries, just to give them a taste of their own medicine.

My picture can be found in the Sights and Attractions–Hell’s Kitchen section of the Schmap Guide to NY. Just click on “Shubert Theatre” and then click the right arrow (if my picture doesn’t load on the right-hand side to begin with). I should be the second picture.