Patience

I've been down under with the family for the last week getting refreshed in the glorious Australian winter sun. The first few days we spent enjoying the sites in tropical Cairns. One of our stops was at Marineland Melanesia on Green Island on the Great Barrier Reef. There highlight of Marineland was crocodile feeding time. The saltwater crocs were patient and suprisingly quick when food was presented.

Nikon D600 with Nikon 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor Lens f4, ISO 200, 1/400 sec.

Nikon D600 with Nikon 105mm f/2.8G ED-IF AF-S VR Micro-Nikkor Lens f4, ISO 160, 1/400 sec.

Back in Tokyo, after Summer Break in Australia

I finished a break down under and just returned to Tokyo two-weeks ago, only to be swamped at work. Now I have a backlog of photos from Australia and Tokyo to share....

So give me some time and hopefully, I will catch up before summer is over.  I had a long layover (over 6-hours) in Cairns.  It was only a 10-minute ride into the CBD so I went into town.  Here's a few of the things that I spotted while in Cairns.

My flight landed before sunrise, and I made it into the CBD at sunrise.

Walking around the CBD, I hear a strange hissing noise and spotted these Bush Stone Curlews. They did a sort of dance trying to escape from me.

There wasn't much to see in Cairns after breakfast. So I went to the Cairns Wildlife Dome to check out their birds and got a close up look at more Curlews.

They had lots many native parrots, Frogmouths, and Kookaburras.

I also spotted this beautiful white flower. I think it's a White Daffodil but I haven't confirmed it.