To Australia - The Land Down Under

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A tribute to the beauty of the wide brown land as celebrate Australia Day on January 26th. I have collected just a few images to celebrate our great country, and to share some of the iconic things we have down under

This Australia Day, we recognize the landing of the First Fleet, captained by Captain James Cook’s in Port Jackson in 1788. This was the first settlement of the European settlers. The day, January 26, is a public holiday, in which we celebrate being Australian.

So whether you’re sitting at home, the local park or down the beach, set the BBQ up!

Or head down to the beach to relax in the water during the heat of the day

But remember, you always go out wearing what means the most

If you’re in Adelaide, drop in to the Adelaide Oval for the day to watch the cricket, otherwise there is always the TV
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By the end of the day, it’s hot, but cooling so, head down to the beach and watch the sunset with friends

And if you are lucky, enjoy the fireworks put on by local councils, or just enjoy the natural fireworks from the evening storm


Aussie Pride

We enjoy a few cold ones, cheers mate!
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We have our own Miss Universe – Jennifer Hawkins

This bloke was good enough to be our PM, we miss him dearly – Steve Irwin

This guy is our Prime Minister. But don’t worry, he loves traveling to other countries! Mr Kevin Rudd

This guy holds the best Sunday night program after 60 Minutes, providing us all with the week’s comedy which after a good laugh, we can face the Monday morning – Rove McManus

These guys hold their own. Most of us love ‘em, the rest loathe ‘em. We think they’re pretty smart, top blokes who know how to make fun of everything, particularly politicians, the gullible and the yanks (sorry to my American friends) – The Chasers

And this (even though it’s a stamp) was THE funniest, and greatest thing to happen in 2007, especially at the most important APEC summit. Thanks Chaser boys

This guy has been commentating the cricket on channel 9 all summer long for quite a few generations now, he is quite the Australian gentleman – Richie Benaud

This guy is the envy of the English and our cricket God – Sir Donald Bradman

That’s not a knife, this is knife. The yanks know this fella real well! Crocodile Dundee

This guy was born and raised here, he’s all ours. The truly great, Heath Ledger. RIP

Where these girls provide us with enough irony Aussie humour to confuse other countries. Kath ‘n’ Kim

Where this guy only knows one word – C’MON!! Lleyton Hewitt

We are proud diggers, and remember our ANZAC’s every ANZAC/Remembrance Day

These guys are one of the many emergency services that protect us.

When this guy, anyone will stop and listen to
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Our indigenous Australian’s make our heritage proud with their beautiful music, story-telling paintings and dreamtime stories.


We Aussies, love our Sport
We love our beach cricket, where the pitch is made of sand and the field is made of water

And backyard cricket as well…

Where we proudly watch our national teams…stadium’s packed and erupting with cheers, laughter, Mexican waves and a good time
Where the cricket is THE only summer sport…and we do have the Ashes…no matter how the Poms think they do!

Where this guy is considered a tosser, but the BEST bowler of all time – Shane Warne

Where the MCG is the Holy Grail

The winter sport to play is rugby league and its not soft like the NFL…its tough men stuff!

And QLD and NSW go head to head for three games a year…when that’s life or death!

Our Wallabies do rather good as well!
And we follow our Socceroos too now. All over the world…as they take on the best and win! Despite some referees!

We can all swim from a young age, and some of us just become big fish!
This guy is a living legend. Ian Thorpe
And some evolve into pro surfers
Mick Fanning’s a favourite son
So’s Joel Parkinson
Where this guy only comes back to play for us, we share him with the USA
Andrew Bogut

We our Aussie icons

We love the V8 racing cars, and Ford’s ARE better and faster

Guys love the other attractions at the races too

Where we started the FREE HUGS attraction

We have red postboxes like our Mother country England, but ours a just a lil different

We reckon the Sydney Harbour Bridge looks like one of these things

We Vegemite on everything!

This is the only thing to keep the sun off your face – An Acubra hat

We invented the best clothes line

We love to wear thongs (flip flops, beach shoes)

This was just way too cute to go past with the Boomerang

XXXX Gold is the proper beer in Australia

This is an outback pub, where every one knows a story or two

And this is the outback dunny

Where you find things like this in the pub

And we line up our surfboards to pick on favourite one each summer morning

We love a good BBQ

And even the Hippie’s love the VB

Where this is what you see in the back of the Ute

And THAT’s a Ute

This is our favourite dessert – The Pavlova

Where the closest thing to a map is this…

These signs out number cars

Yes Mad Max was filmed here

This guy is a hunk!

Don’t mess with these guys, they own the road – Road Train (Truck)

Craig’s Hut is the most famous hut in Australia. It’s from the movie – The Man from the Snowy River

Thirsty, these guys are hidden water tanks

And where wearing a shirt at the beach makes you the odd one out (DESPITE those terrible skin cancer ads on tv)


Abundant in Animal Life


Of Beauty…




And of Terror…





Outback – Yep its out the back











Gone bush and the rainforest




Beaches, islands, reefs and rivers











And lastly, colours that dance across the sky