Comprising a Life

The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

Australian relatives

When I was in Vietnam in 1970 I took an R&R to Sydney Australia, from Sydney and took a flight to the Melbourn recently arrived e area to see some of my mother's relatives, the following photographs were taken during that visit.  I have forgotten all the names of the people but a letter recently arrived from one of them until I found that would put up these pictures for their benefit.

Public-school

Eucalyptus forest was introduced Pines

Australia countryside

Australian relatives at train museum

Girl under a tree ferns

Girl with dog

Laughing kookaburra

Tree fern underbrush

Melbourne agriculture

Melbourne coastline

I'm sure this beach view today will be covered with hotels

Steps to opera house under construction

Scenes around the Melbourne area

At Sydney botanical gardens

Me in front of Sydney Harbour Bridge

View of Sydney Harbour and Opera House

Opera house, and Sydney Harbour behind tree ferns

Kangaroo in Sydney zoo

Girl with kangaroo