Weekly Photo Challenge: Home
Home is a place to feel cared for and protected. It’s a place to be nourished, more than just a physical refuge, it’s a private place to find peace and purpose. I imagine all of this represented by the clownfish and its home the anemone. In this reciprocal relationship, each animal has a protected home […]
Don’t Skip: Adelaide
[mappress mapid=”1″] Intro to Adelaide When asked what cities we’d be visiting in Australia, we mentioned Adelaide as our second stop. A common response was , “Why?” even from Aussies themselves (maybe even more so). Unassuming Adelaide is often overlooked on the average itinerary. Travelers think first of more famous spots like Sydney, the Gold […]
Weekly Photo Challenge: Surprise
During our visit to Daintree National Park (in far north Queensland, Australia), we stayed at a great little B&B called Epiphyte. Having learned from our host that the best time to walk the nearby Jindalba Boardwalk was at night, we set off at around 9:30 pm. The boardwalk meanders through the rainforest along its path built into […]
Throwback Thursday: Round The World Slideshow
Below is our photo montage from our first RTW trip in 2008-09. I’m hoping to inspire myself to get to work on a video from our latest trip. We hope you all enjoy the show!
Bondi
Today was the day I met Pete for the second time. The first time had been 22 years ago, as exchange students in Japan. Though we were just teens then, I guess we were pretty good judges of character, since the four of us (Donny and Pete’s partner Kate included) had a wonderful day exploring, walking, chatting […]
A Manly Walk
The weather made a complete turnaround, and Friday was beautiful. A ferry ride from Circular Quay offered great views of the Harbour and deposited us at Manly Wharf on the other side. We gawked enviously at the waterfront homes along the bay as we began the 9 kilometer Manly Scenic Walk. We passed picturesque Fairlight […]
Walking in the Rain
The weather hadn’t improved much, but we had to make the most of our limited time, so we head out on another journey on foot. At the end of Victoria Street were the McElhone Stairs, over a hundred of them, leading down to Cowper Wharf Road, which runs along Wooloomooloo Bay. Not too far from there […]
Meet Sydney
It was the coldest October day in 30 years, according to the pilot on arrival to Sydney airport. We staying at Eva’s Backpackers in King’s Cross, a neighborhood with a saucy reputation as a red light district. You know you’re there when you pass the huge Coca Cola sign. Being from Atlanta, Donny felt right […]
Open Water
Diving the Great Barrier Reef was near the top of our not-to-be-missed list. The amount of information available to tourists in Cairns is absolutely overwhelming, and we did quite a bit of research on possible ways to get there. Carmen, from Experience Cairns wasn’t the first agent we chatted with, but she was the only […]
Departing the Daintree
On the way out in the morning we did the last boarwalk: Dubuji, which looked different than the others had on previous days, due to the heavy rain the night before. There was lots more water in the creeks and everything seemed sort of steamy. This was a longer walk with lots of lowland rainforest, […]