G'day, Mates! Here's an online scrapbook of our 2005 tour of the eastern half of Australia. In three weeks and countless thousands of kilometers, we sampled the cosmopolitan pleasures of Sydney, watched Aussie parliamentary action in Canberra, enjoyed the coffee culture of Melbourne, played with kangaroos, wallabies, and koalas on Kangaroo Island, saw a Green Day concert in Adelaide, journeyed by train into the Red Center, communed with Uluru near Alice Springs, snorkeled along the Great Barrier Reef, befriended the fruit bats of Brisbane, and visited friends upon our return to Sydney. Enter these pages for photos and souvenirs - and text written by Jenny Wood. In this site, you will learn the answers to questions like these: Could the Wood family drive on the left-hand side of the road? Could the Wood family figure out the rules to rugby? Could the Wood family survive three weeks together without going crazy? To learn more, read on...

-Andy, Jenny, and Vienna Wood