Packing for 6 weeks...

Packing for 6 weeks is not that that different than packing for 1 week,  except we need hot weather (low 90's) clothes for Darwin and Alice springs, and colder weather clothes ( 50's/60's) for Tasmania.  There are a few special items for Australia...a snakebite kit (Nan has been reading about all the deadly critters ), electrical adapters which hopefully fit,  and an Australian bird guide.  

What are we forgetting?   Kayaking clobber is staying home.  Between salt-water crocodiles,  jellyfish with excruciating stings, and deadly stingrays, kayaking has lost its appeal

Sunday we leave for LA, spend two days at Venice Beach, and late Tuesday get the 14 1/2 hour flight to Sydney.

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ps  For anyone interested in the sorry saga of my Sony camera, it arrived from repair yesterday with new CPU and new circuit board.  As the mirror box had been previously replaced,  it seems like all major parts are now new.   I couldn't stand the thought of being in Australia without a working camera so I did buy a back-up. :-(