Over the last three months I’ve taken and shared a great number of photos, most of animals or places or moments. It turns out that along the way I also took (and rarely shared) an embarrassing number of selfies. So here, as I sit in a Sydney airport hotel on my last night in Australia (and apparently with nothing better to do) I thought I would share 28 pictures of ME!
At some point I will attempt to offer some final reflections on my three months’ sabbatical, but I should probably get a little time and distance first. Until then, thank you to everyone who has shared this journey with me and engaged with my photos and shared comments and encouragement.
Union Station, Chicago 
On the train, passing through Illinois 
Old Town Plaza, Albuquerque 
Sugar Beach, Kihei, Hawai’i 
Haleakalā National Park, Maui 
Onboard the Ovation of the Seas 
Spring Creek, Marlborough, New Zealand 
Entering Sydney Harbour 
Manly Beach, outside Sydney 
Sydney city tour 
Sydney Opera House 
Blue Mountains, outside Sydney 
Beechworth, Victoria, Australia 
Melbourne 
The Great Ocean Road 
The Twelve Apostles 
Griffiths Island at Port Fairy 
Adelaide, about to board The Ghan 
Marla, in the outback 
Simpsons Gap, the Outback 
I’m guessing this is Alice Springs 
Kakadu National Park 
The Esplanade in Cairns 
The summit on Fitzroy Island 
Kimberly, the Alexandra Range Lookout 
Cape Tribulation 
Doesn’t seem to me like a terribly original name for a town! 
In a gondola on the Wheel of Brisbane
And one more image from my visit to the Kuranda Koala Gardens, one of the few places where one may hold a koala:
