DREAMING LANDSCAPES - A GLOBAL CAMPUS MINISTRIES CONFERENCE IN BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA

Getting there from Moline, Illinois:

Flying on Qantas is a GREAT experience--even if you don't like to fly!    

Griffith University-Nathan Campus, Brisbane, Australia - June 30-July 8, 2004  The campus is located in the Australian Bush. 

   Entrance        Residence Hall   Student Center  Multifaith Center           The Bush

June 30 -- A first look around Brisbane & dinner with friends

July 1 --  A trip to Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary

Koala's name       Petting a           Poinsettias              The only version

is Gremlin            Wallaby         are tree-sized!         I could take home

July 1 -- The conference begins

   Gathering     Seven flames        Aboriginal             Aboriginal               Barbeque dinner

                          for seven            Australian               dancers

                          continents       playing didgeridoo

Since the campus was in the bush, we saw lots of kookaburras!

And other birds too...                   

                                             Magpie Lark            Rainbow Lorikeets              Scrub Turkey

 Meals, meetings, conversations, exhibitions...

   Eating out          Eating in        Saturday Tea               The Global Expo                   D. Min. Class

                                                                                          Saturday Night                meeting on Sunday

A day trip to Mt. Tambourine outside of Brisbane, Monday, July 5, 2004

  Waiting to board the bus      A stop for tea     Rainforest      Stag horn         Crimson       Friends in the rainforest

                                                                                   tree              ferns             rosellas      

View from Mt.         The bus seemed too large for        Mountain pond    Conference Dinner                

  Tambourine                            the road!                             & stream            Tuesday night

Last looks around Brisbane, Wednesday afternoon, July 7, 2004...

 Ibises along south bank         The Plough     View from

     of Brisbane River                    Inn           the bridge

...and Thursday, July 8, 2004

Oriental garden          Boardwalk             Brisbane           Dragon Tree - One of only two in

                              through mangroves          Harbor              Australia, planted in 1868

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