Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Ooi! Ooi! Ooi!

Happy Australia Day everyone!!

The most important event of the year, where new Australians are welcome in the special Citizenship ceremony and great people are honoured. This year's Australian of the Year is country music singer Lee Kernaghan OAM. Now what made this man so great? His dedication and efforts to help rural families through his 'Pass the Hat around' tours which have raised up to a $1 million for communities in need. He will also focus this year to the plight of families on the land who are struggling against drought. He will also focus on encouraging people to buy Australian grown.

Australians also celebrate this day by gathering at the foreshore to enjoy the magnificent lottery skyworks. About 300,000 thousand people, young and old swarmed Perth's foreshore last night. The traditional flying of a huge floodlit Australian flag across the river brought the first cheers of the night. Then at 9pm, the fireworks began, and for 30 minutes we were entertained with a kaleidoscope of colours lighting up the dark night. What a beautiful show it was. It was reported that the fireworks was worth a total of $1.5 million!

I didn't capture any of the colours on pics though, as my camera wasn't high tech enough. So I am going to borrow some pictures taken by more professional photographers :-) Just click on the link below.

Spectacular display of colours