A Hop-Step and Jump to Derby

A few hours from Broome, we go and check out Derby

Little Lizzy looks like a proper local with her mud-caked car

We try our luck fishing off the Jetty

Didn't catch anything though!
Didn't realize how high-up the Jetty was until we returned only a few hours later at low tide!

The prison Boab - big enough for it's past use in locking up traveling prisoners over night. You can't see it from the sunny picture, but it was buzzing all over with bees giving an over-all droning and ominous feeling to the site.

Broome-Town!

Visiting the lovely Liz and James in their new home town.

Chillin at Gantheum Point




Rock-hopping on Cable Beach at Twilight


We went traipsing the low tide shore of Willie Creek with Jan
Harry and Jan slip down for a swim while Leila-dog and I watch.

Just us on the beach for as far as the eye can see...

A good place to hear the sound of your own breath on the breeze


Best sunset in the world?


Collecting shells - but be careful, some of them move...

Baby Crazy-crab

We arrive in Japan!

Tokyo Kitsch!



Harry on the fifth level of a place waaay more hardcore than Timezone!


Discovering a local beverage in a warm-drink vending machine... Yes... Pancake drink! With the consistency of tea, and the flavour of buttery maple pancakes, its chemical flavoring at it's best!


Then we go to Nara, and learn (I think) that you should not feed the deers.


The largest wooden building in the world!


Warming up with some traditional Matcha




Cheer up Harry, Totoro is lurking not too far away...


Harry taking a cycle around Kyoto.


Working up an appetite for the amazing sundae shop! Over 100 different sundae's to choose from. This one is called Pumpkin Parfait!


Amazing pickles!


Harry and the Koi





Here we are in the Bamboo groves where they filmed some of crouching tiger hidden dragon, and randomly we see...

a clown? Bizzaro!

Snow fun in Shirakawago!

We visit the UNESCO listed village of Shirakawago for a farm stay in a traditional thatched farmhouse!



Our farmhouse!



Harry up in the third story of the farmhouse which catches the smoke and cures the thatch.

Snow silliness!

Briony as a "snow unicorn"


Knee-deep in snow!


Now that's a lot of icicles!


Hard to tell who's cheeks are rosier!


Igloo-peekaboo!


Nothing like coming back home to a hot meal. Gorgeous food served by the our hostess - salted fish, with local herbs and home grown soy beans and rice!


Day two, was even more snowy!


Sleet scraper/canon thing!




View from above the town.