Australia - Year of Dragon Prepaid card,

 

Thank you so much IndigoAngel!

Australia - Fauna&Floral card,

 

Thank you Kadyn!

Australia - Year of the Rabbit 2023,

 

Thank you IndigoAngel!

Australia - Rabbit year card,

"The Fortune Rabbit character inspired by Fu Xing (Fu), god of fortune and happiness. This rabbit is depicted as a scholar holding a scroll, accompanied by a young rabbit, a pupil."

 Thank you so much Yiu!

Australia - Year of the Tiger,

 

Thank you Melissa!

Australia - Year of the Tiger card,

The card and stamp show the 'lucky tiger'. So creative.

 Thank you so much Alex!

Australia, Year of the Rat,

I really love Rat year stamp design. At first look I thought it show a traditional story in Vietnam and China about the Kitchen Genius (Táo quân). But actually they are 3 types of main characters in JingJu (Kinh kịch).

Thank you so much czp9336!

Australia, Marriage Equality maxicard,

Thank you helent for this help!

Australia Antarctic Territory, Seal maxicard,

The sounthern territories really fascinate me not by only their lanscapes but the nature as well. I love the seal a lot. They look so cool.

Australia, Lotus maxicard,

This maxicard is from a set of 3 released by Australia post in 2017 in the topic: water flower.

Lotus is the national flower of Vietnam. In Vietnam, it is said that the blooming preriod of Lotus has begun from the birthday of Ho Chi Minh ( 19th May) and has finished around the death day of Ho Chi Minnh ( 2 Sep).

Thank you Helen!

PC#166 Australia, Wahlenbergia MaxiCard

This card is a give-away from Sharon. I really love this flowers as wild flowers are my favorite. The card shows Wahlenbergia.

Sent: 24 Dec 2016

Arrived: 23 Jan 2017

Thank you so much Sharon!

Wahlenbergia

Wahlenbergia is a genus of between 150–270 species of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution except for North America; the highest species diversity is in Africa and Australasia. Wahlenbergia species have dispersed widely, even to oceanic islands, and there are four species known from the island of Saint Helena, including the now extinct species W. roxburghii. The genus was named after Göran Wahlenberg (a Swedish botanist who taught at Uppsala University) by German botanist H. A. Schrader (Heinrich Schrader), in 1814.

PC#164 Australia, Ice Flowers Maxicard,

This one is from set of three showing Ice Flower types. I'm so surprise how beautiful they are!

Thank you Xue!

PC#157 Australia, UNESCO site: Macquarie Island;

The dog is so cute with the smile.

Sent: 22/4/2016

Arrived: 9/5/2016

Macquarie Island

UNESCO site
Date of Insscription: 1997

Brief synthesis

Macquarie Island lies almost 1,500 kilometres to the southeast of Tasmania, about half-way between Australia and Antarctica. The property includes Macquarie Island, Judge and Clerk Islets 11 kilometres to the north, the Bishop and Clerk Islets 37 kilometres to the south, rocks, reefs and the surrounding waters to a distance of 12 nautical miles. The main island is approximately 34 kilometres long and 5.5 kilometres wide at its broadest point, covering an area of approximately 12,785 hectares. The property covers an area of 557,280 hectares.

Macquarie Island has outstanding universal value for two reasons. First, it provides a unique opportunity to study, in detail, geological features and processes of oceanic crust formation and plate boundary dynamics, as it is only place on earth where rocks from the earth’s mantle (6 kilometres below the ocean floor) are being actively exposed above sea level. These unique exposures include excellent examples of pillow basalts and other extrusive rocks. Second, its remote and windswept landscape of steep escarpments, lakes, and dramatic changes in vegetation provides an outstanding spectacle of wild, natural beauty complemented by vast congregations of wildlife including penguins and seals.

Source: unesco.org

Thank you so much Xue!

PC#153 Australia, Letter V maxi card,

Sent: 15/4/2016

Arrived: 2/5/2016

Thank you so much, Hans!

Cover#173 Christmas Island, Year of the Monkey cover,

Sent: 19.2.2016

Arrived: 4.3.2016

Thanks, Krystiina!

Cover#033 PC#035 #036 Postcrossing day

                                                 

                                                       

Cover#032 PC#033 #034 Australia, Native Orchids

Today, I got a letter from Australia. Orchid is one of my favorite flowers. I used to plant a lot of orchid in my garden when I was young. As they always need cared well and I hadn't not much time so I stopped that hobbit for a longtime. But still love them. 2 MC show native orchids of Australia.

Thank you,  Sharon!