Boy you folks talk fast. By the time I get the next digest....

To Bob - "da fish"
I don't sweat the details. By the time I'd tell you of the mistake, It'd be
obvious...
> Damn! That's the biggest Brain Fart I ever had in 15 years of posting! :-)
> The 'retarrred' must have advanced to 'retarrrded'.
Ha!

from Viv:
> Sorry Bob ya got your *John* identities crossed.
> Tis not DPTNST fella with Brooxie ... this is John Hauer with Vicky.
> Viv

> From: David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
> Mate!  The football season will be over by the time Bob arrives.  Cricket
> will be in full swing in November - and for my money that's best watched on
> television just to fill in the gaps between the exciting TV commercials!
> :-)
I always wondered about cricket, but never spent the time once the
commercial was over.

> Did you see the big colony of fruit bats (flying foxes) in the Botanical
> Gardens?  It's terrific to see them at dusk.  :-)
Thar's a bunch of them in that park right by the "rainbow district"
downtown, as well. Do I need to get out a map? I'm loosing my park names.

> Darling Harbour wasn't built for the Olympics - and the Aquarium and the
> Maritime Museum are pretty enjoyable.  I think!  :-)))
Oops. Nice place. We watched the start of a sailboat race from the there. I
liked that train, too. I would recommend a swim in the ocean over visiting
the aquarium, though. But that's me. I think someone told me it was fixed up
a bunch then. Obviously I'm not the best Sydney tour guide.

I will tell you I piss of the locals around San Francisco when I tell them
SF seems to have huge problems once one has experienced the wonders of
Sydney.

Bob:
> My wife Sue is the Bird Freak.  I had 3 remote survellance cameras
> mounted at different strategic locations just for her to watch her
> favorite, Blue Birds nesting in the custom-houses we built for them,
> but unfortunately only to see them eaten by snakes, and other birds
> sometimes.   ;-)

Really check out the birds then. I'd even get the birders guide-book to
(south) Eastern Oz. A reason to get out of town a bit, too.

> That would suit our taste.  An Aussie zoo and roadkill.   :-)
By the way, that reminds me, I don't think I'd order the stew at a
roadhouse.

> I've met a specimen of that already.  Don't you think Strike is hard to
> top in the "conversation of a lifetime" category?  :=)
I might have misled you. I'm not sure "top in the "conversation of a
lifetime" is the right way to look at it. It's more like stamps in the
passport ... can't have to many of those.


>>> But which PART of Alaska did you cover?
> But the Mojabe desert and other wilderness spots out West are WARMER.  :-)
Perhaps, but funny as it sounds, warm was not the issue. Now I want to snow
camp again...well maybe.

Now on Viv's trip..

We met this guy - Nick I think his name was - who claimed he would ride his
motorcycle from Perth to Sydney with a gal on the back if she wanted him to
do so. Very gallant. Perhaps if you put an add on the radio you could hook
up? And save an airfare or two.

Also, he claimed he barely needed to stop for rest.


Later then,
John (of John and Vicky)