Category Australia

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Open Water

The Descent

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,…

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…