These are our friends Beth and Joe Zimmerman (the dairy farmers) from Wisconsin on our Deep Sea Fishing Charter.

Raptor of Australia

There are signs all over the rain forest warning you of the Cassowaries, I didn't even know these things existed? I guess they can disembowel you with the claw on the back of thier foot! Now that would have been useful information to have BEFORE you are in the MIDDLE of the rain forest!

Thats "Mr. Crocodile" to you!

This was the biggest croc that we got to see on our river cruise, anyone care to go swimming?

Australian Sunset

We drove out to a small hill on the concession to watch the sunset on our last night in camp. The pictures we created were a complete accident that started with one of the guys sitting in a chair on top of this hill, one look at that picture and we had them running up and down that little hill, trading places with each other so we could get shadow shots of all of them, sometimes sitting, sometimes standing, with the gun, without the gun. Trying to get them before the sun disappeared. These are some of my favorite pictures of the trip.

More Reef Pics

WHEN IN ROME

Normally you couldn't pay me enough to sport a suit that makes me look like a giant smurf, but this was an exception, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to snorkel at "The Great Barrier Reef" and I will never regret it. What an exciting experience. We rode the Quick Silver out of Port Douglas Australia, to a diving platform they have anchored on the reef, It is very cool, we even had lunch out there and everything>

Fire & Ice

This all started with Bernie's Grandson. He and a friend had been out on the lake playing in the snow and sculpted a giant fish that looked like it was jumping out of the water. Soon word spread through town about the snow sculpture, and visitation to the park doubled that winter. One savvy park ranger petitioned to have an annual event, and now it is.

Bernie's Grandson works with the Ely Volunteer Fire Dept. in Ely Nevada, and used that as his inspiration for his sculpture.

Any one can sign up to participate, I say we get Becky to do it! She'll WIN it for sure! The living room above won this year. All of this is happening on top of (frozen) Cave Lake just outside of Ely Nevada. They have a contest every year called The Fire & Ice Show, the "fire" portion consists of a huge fireworks show and an historic black powder cannon being shot off many times during the day. The "ice" well it covers the lake and is the scene of the ice fishing and ice sculptures. With a top prize of $1,000.00.

It is usually the first part of January. It is a fun way to start off a New Year!