Ginger Without Borders

Our purpose in South Australian is not to visit the city of Adelaide. Just west of Adelaide is a one hundred mile long and twenty mile wide island about 10 miles off the Australian coast. It was uninhabited until Europeans arrived in the early 1800’s. An Englishman explored the north side and a Frenchman explored…

To celebrate our last night at the GBR, we made reservations at the restaurant next door to our apartment for another fresh seafood dinner (what else do you eat when you are at the coast?). Like virtually every restaurant we have visited, it was al fresco. Even the places that air conditioned their interior space…

When you tell anyone you are going to Australia, they almost always ask first, “Are you going to visit the Great Barrier Reef?” It is only the world’s largest coral reef, and we love to snorkel, so the answer from us was an emphatic yes. While we could have toured the southern end of the…

Dawn’s animal experiences at the Australia Zoo were the focus of our trip to Caloundra, which was chosen as out sleeping site solely because it was 20 minutes from the Zoo. Caloundra is a seaside resort (hence our resort apartment) and the south end of the Australian tourist mecca known as the Sunshine Coast. After…

As I discussed in the last post, when Dawn and I started planning our Down Under adventure, the Australia Zoo was at the top of the list of things we wanted to do since the Zoo was such an important part of Lena’s teen years. So although we were sad to be leaving, we navigated…