Category: Travels
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More Travel Day Reflections
We left the GOR with a lot of pictures. Last night was Saturday and time for the big quarter-final game between England and Australia in the World Cup of Rugby. Now that apparently means something in Queensland and New South Wales (home of Sydney). But in South Australia and Victoria,…
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Great Ocean Road – Part Two
We were greeted with a rainbow over the ocean when we checked into our hotel room in Apollo Bay. It was a good omen because it meant the rain had moved on. Many parts of Australia are in severe drought and some radio reports indicated that there are localities that…
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The Great Ocean Road – Part One
The Great Ocean Road was built by Australian servicemen returning from the Great War (now know as World War I) as a memorial to their comrades who were lost in Europe. It is the world’s largest war memorial. It is 152 miles long and was built from 1919 until 1932,…
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Our Longest driving day
When the travel agents sent us the proposed Australia schedule, both Dawn and I balked at the distance we would have to cover in one day from Adelaide to Warrnambool in order to start the Great Ocean Road. Google maps indicated it would be about six hours in the rental…
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Back In Adelaide
After two wonderful days on Kangaroo Island, we took a short (25 minute) hop back to Adelaide in a propeller driven Volvo commuter plane. Neither Dawn nor I could remember the last time we rode in a propeller driven plane (and now we have done it twice in three days).…
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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…
Ginger Without Borders 