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Just a quick post so let you know I'm still here! Since my last post we've been through the longest heat wave in Sydney history, and travelled north of Sydney and then south to Melbourne. Tomorrow we head to Tasmania for the first time and I'm really looking forward to it.

After that we'll be quickly off to the Sunshine Coast of Queensland for 10 days and then it's only another 10 days until the trip back to Canada. Time flies when you're having fun!

Highlights of the last few weeks include a red-bellied black snake (yes, poisonous, about a metre long, and about a half kilometre from where we were staying in Sydney). I'll put a photo of him on when I next get a chance! I've hardly had time for painting but have been taking lots of photos, including another for my lighthouse series of beautiful Sugarloaf Point Lighthouse and Cottages near Forster, NSW. It was designed by the same architect who did Barrenjoey Lighthouse at Palm Beach near Sydney. We spent a couple of hours there and could see 100 km around the coastline--absolutely gorgeous!

We also had a lovely lunch and great coffee (Single Origin Coffee from Sydney) at Kiama, and saw dolphins at Bermagui (famous deep-sea fishing haunt of actor/author Zane Grey), as well as watching an Australian fur seal (almost as big as a sea lion) tease the local stingrays under the historic wharf at Tathra.

As usual there's not much time to blog as we have to re-pack and get our luggage down to 15 kilos for our cheap flight to Tasmania. I'll hope to post again sometime in early March, depending on travel status! Until then...signing off!