Queen Victoria Building Shopping Mall in Sydney – Scroll down for slideshow.

The QVB is a magnificent shopping mall in Sydney, Australia. It is several stories high. There are just under 190 shops/ boutiques all luxuriously appointed. There are many places to eat. A huge clock hangs in the mall. A separate blog is coming about this amazing clock. Here are some pictures taken in the QBD. Don’t miss it if you go to Sydney. I assure you: Seeing is believing. Enjoy.

Manly to Sydney Aquarium May 2022. See the video below the penguin.

Photograph; John Bartels

Join us on a visit to Sydney’s wonderful Aquarium. Watch the video see pictures of beautiful fish. There is an underwater glass tunnel. We literally walked among the sharks. We also went on a virtual reality dive with sharks. Amazing.

When visiting Sydney, a visit to the Aquarium is a must. It is in Barangaroo, a short ferry ride from Circular Quay. I hope you enjoy the video.

Early Evening Ferry Manley Australia

Picture plus Video below.

Photo from MB in Manley Australia Thank You

Watch the video below and listen to wild life chorus! Sound up please.

Thanks to MB in Manley for the video with sound.

Rain deluge and flooding: Manly, Sydney in Australia: A picture, three short videos and a dramatic escape for my son.

All from my son in Manly. The dramatic escape is about him! May everyone keep safe. Please scroll down for a picture and 3 short videos and the story (at the end) of my son’s close shave. Thank you to my son MB for the pictures and videos.

Drain water pouring onto the beach at Manly
Rain water pouring out of the drains onto the beach
A flooded intersection in Manly.
Flooding through garden walls in Manly.

Keep safe everyone

Sydney Australia (Manly) rain downpour video

I think this video was taken last Saturday. Check the weather forecast for this coming Tuesday in Sydney. Keep safe everyone.

Just Four Beautiful Reasons to Love Manly in Sydney, Australia- October 2021

Please scroll down. There are 4 pictures. Thank you to LB and MB for the photos.

Look at the rainbow!
A beautiful strelitzia enjoying the view.
What a place to stroll!

Italy? No! Its Manly!

Beautiful flowers from the land of the Kookaburra (Part 1)

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Australia is not only the land of the kookaburra. It also has magnificent scenery. There are also many beautiful flowers.

Today my wife and her Australian friend were chatting about this and that and they got onto the subject of the flowers in her Australian garden. We asked her to send some pictures, which she did with some comments.

Here are some of the pictures with comments.

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(Did I hear the kookaburra say “The flowers in this garden are fair dinkum”?)

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“A hedge of azaleas at our front door”

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Xmas cactus

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“Bromeliads…not unlike the stag horn ….”

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“That show off kookaburra got in first to introduce the pictures of the flowers. We were busy waiting for fisherman to clean their catch. Our turn, next time.”

This might interest you

The Obesa Nursery in Graaff-Reinet

and

Some famous advice from the 5th Century AD https://johnbartels.com/2020/06/07/the-salutation-of-the-dawn/