A Walk around the Lagoon We made a new friend on our walk around Laguna Nimez just outside of El Calafate, Argentina.  She was a pretty black lab with a…

Kaikoura had some of the most beautiful scenery yet!  The snowy mountain-peaked background and an almost impossibly aquamarine sea sparkling in the foreground was truly magnificent.  We had some lovely…

Te Anau is a lovely destination on its own, and we took advantage of the lakeside setting for a morning walk.  After checking out road conditions (there has been snow…

Before leaving town for Curio Bay, we decided to check out an “est,” (bigg-est, tall-est, deep-est, etc.)  In a suburb of Dunedin is the Guinness record holder for world’s steepest…

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…

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…

A drive up to the Mt. Lofty summit provided a panoramic view of Adelaide all the way to the sea.  We tried unsuccessfully to find two geocaches on the nature trail below…

We set off in the morning with the Kiwi girls, Leanne and sisters Nicola and Lee-Anne.  After a single wrong turn getting out of Cape Town, and a few minutes…

We stocked up on provisions at Outjo(settled in 1880).  There was a yummy German bakery there, and lunch was sausage rolls and meat pies. Mmmm.  By late afternoon we reached…

Our morning game drive highlight was a close encounter with a lion.  We had seen a few from a distance, including a male clearly annoyed his female companion had strayed…