Frank's Photo Gallery

I took the following photos during my trip to Australia in 1996. I hope you'll enjoy them.

In any Australian national park, the rules were: Take nothing but pictures - leave nothing but footprints. So I took - and left - this picture...

This first bird is a Crimson Rosella photographed in the Green Mountains. The hand - and the sandwich - belongs to Ellis Thornley, from Birkdale, near Brisbane, Australia.

Fraser Island is a very beautiful place, but the trip I took was rather dull: On the bus, off the bus, take picture, back on the bus again, etc all day...

Why not?

One of the beaches on Fraser Island has been designated Highway 1, in order for trafic rules to apply. It is used mainly by speeding fourwheel-drives full of tourists and as a landing strip for small planes - also with tourists.

Ugly, isn't it?

Best trip I did in Australia was a three day cruise on the Iluka out of Airlie Beach. This photo shows the Iluka from one of the islands where we went ashore.

This Zebra Finch male I found just north of Tennant Creek. I had rented a bike and was heading out to the Mary Ann Dam, 6 km north of Tennant Creek, when I suddenly heard the distinctive sound of Zebra Finches. His 'wife' was watching me from outside the nest:

When I was walking trough the park next to Casuarina Beach, I noticed the way people looked at me and my camera. It looked as if they were thinking: "How rude!". I found out why a little later when I saw the sign reading: "Casuarina Nudist Beach"...

These are very attractive birds, but don't stand underneath a tree full of them in your best clothes. They eat a lot of liquid food - need I say more?.

These signs were posted everywhere in Kakadu National Park, especially next to the water where we all went swimming.

Byron Bay is supposed to be Heaven for Surfers (much like Surfers Paradise which is a bit north of Byron Bay). Why, I don't know - this is what it looked like while I was there...