Over thirty people gathered at the home of Paul and Ruth to take an armchair journey to two parts of Australia, enjoy a shared dessert and play some card games. Marian and David took us to the tropical Kimberlys in northwest Aussie. Setting out from Broome we flew to the Horizontal Waterfalls, a chasm between two headlands where the water surges or "falls" horizontally as the tides change. We went on a boat trip to see the Giant Tide before beginning a 9 day camping safari. There was much to see on this trip - road trains, crocodiles, rock formations, a truck that went down an embankment when reversing, swimming holes, and much more. The gorges looked spectacular during a helicopter flight. The Echidna Chasm was also a spectacle, only as wide as a person with walls towering to 200m. There was much wildlife to be seen, including a barking owl, alligators covered in green slime coming out for a feed, and an osprey with a fish it had caught. From there we went with Paul and Ruth to the Blue Mountains near Sydney, an impressive bush-covered grand canyon. Again there was much to see - lovely wild flowers, the Wentworth Falls, the blackened remains of trees burnt in the bushfires, kangaroos, and a street festival in Katoomba. Afterwards we enjoyed a lavish and yummy pot-luck dessert, then we had card games that proved to be more enjoyable than the two big rugby games that evening, the Warriors at Eden Park and the All Blacks in Hamilton. David gave a lesson in playing 500 to a group of Chinese people who had just joined the club, and there were two tables full of people who already knew the game. A couple of people played a game that appeared to be similar to Klondike patience. A group of people were playing quiddler, a Mexican card game where players have to collect cards with letters of the alphabet, and try to form a word or words with a total of the 6 letters in a hand.