Category: A Tale of Two Countries
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Kangaroo Island – Day Two
After two mornings of rising early for travel, today we finally had an opportunity for a little “lie in” as the Australians call it. But my body clock had me up minutes before my cellphone alarm clock rang. Our Exceptional tour operators arrived five minutes early (like the other transportation…
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Kangaroo Island-Day One
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…
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Travel Day Observations
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…
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Cairns – Great Barrier Reef and Rainforest
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…
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The Sunshine Coast
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…
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Crikey, Its The Australian Zoo
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…
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The Queen’s Birthday Holiday
Blog readers may wonder where we have been for the last few days. Saturday was our last day in Brisbane with a wonderful adventure chasing the humpback whales in Moreton Bay. Dawn was tired and said she was going to bed early but it turns out she had something to…
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In Search of a Sim Card and Humpback Whales
Part One: The SIM card. I realize I promised the readers of this blog to talk about the Vodafone SIM card saga in the last blog, but the successful redevelopment story of South Bank Park took more time and words than I expected. Dawn also wondered why I spent all…
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Brisbane at First Glance
Although the kind lady at the desk of the Hotel Diana allowed us to check-in early, we still needed to wait a couple of hours before our room would finish being cleaned. Since we had the time, we decided to do our usual and explore the surrounding area. The desk…
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The Garmin Struggle
In the “old days” of travel, you looked at a map and hoped your maps were accurate. Dawn and I wandered off to some interesting places as a result, including the time in Crete when the “road” we chose ended in an olive orchard in a remote valley. But such…
Ginger Without Borders 