In 1997 the authors' son, Jason, urged his parents to visit him in Sydney.This photographic record and commentary is the story of those five weeks spent exploring three contrasting Australian States - from the Big City to the tropical rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef to Ayers Rock/Uluru and along the desert highway to Darwin. Advised by an experienced tourist against taking the bus when they could drive a camper van to Darwin they chose the latter and never regretted it. One point of interest is that every one of the 226 pictures has been scanned either from thirteen-year-old slides or colour negative film - a long and laborious process but the result is something of a historic family document. Most of the slides and film was pristine and unopened and very little photo-editing was required.