At rest

This guy was one of the old pedicab drivers

At Singapore Zoo with a python

I paid a small donation and was able to handle 3 snakes, a first for me!

Second trip to Territory Wildlife Park

I took my second trip to this wonderful park whilst on leave, this is the Osprey, part of the Birds of Prey display.

Busy Boy

I had to arrange to get Powerpoint presentations for the TopEnd event and load them, fun!

My favourite dish in Darwin!

This is Eggs Royal (Smoked Salmon and poached eggs) at the Cornucopia Cafe, at the Northern Territory Museum and Art Gallery.

Di Thompson

Di Thompson a long time Adelaide library colleague came to the conference as the keynote speaker. She was well received. Here she is with my new team member Pauline Ferguson at the Darwin Sailing Club.

Valmai Hankel

I asked Valmai Hankel, wine writer and former Rare Book Librarian to speak at the ALIA TopEnd dinner. It was a great event and she was a delightfull success.

A very busy week

I was involved in organsing the ALIA TopEnd Symposium and also attended a dinner and a workshop on Evidenced Based Librarianship with British authority Andew Booth. This is Andrew enjoying himself at the workshop. It was a great professional development opportunity.

An Osprey at the Territory Wildlife Park

This was one of the raptors that were part of a great display at the Territory Wildlife Park. This was one of many displays and everyone must go to see the park.
Territory Wildlife Park

Happy Jose

This was a great way to spend his last day in the Northern Territory. Jose was suprised at the displays at the Territory Wildlife Park.

I have gone Troppo and its not even the "Build Up" (a period of high temperature, high humidity which is very close as "The Dry finishes. On Saturday I went with the Director, Ruth and Jose Mendes our East Timorese visitor to the Territory Wildlife Park, which I highly recommend.

Nesting or resting Curlew

Not happy with me at all!

One of the pair of Curlews

They were not happy with me photographing them ...lots of hissing!

Seen at CDU carpark, a pair of well camouflaged curlews

This pair I saw at one of our carparks recently.

Saying Farewell to Jose

We thanked each other, I have learnt a lot about East Timor and now want to visit one day.

Jose was presented with a laptop for his library

Jose has a farewell lunch at which he was formally presented with a laptop computer for the library. We enjoyed a good lunch and some speeches.

Visit to Northern Territory Library service

Jose with Bill Constantine, Manager,Resource Management, NTLIS.

Jose went to a number of Darwin libraries

This was on a visit to the Northern Territory Library.
With myself, Robin Hempel, Reference Librarian, Northern Territory Library and Faridah Antwertinger from CDU Library

Jose Mendes

Jose Mendes has spent the last month living with me and undertaking training here at Charles Darwin University, He is from the Library at the Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosae (UNTL) (National University of East Timor.)
See this site for more information about his university and library.
http://www.untl.labor.net.au
Their library need lots of help....
Universidade Nacional Timor Lorosae

Another group at the ALIA garden party