Hey Everyone, We just got a new next-door neighbor on Gilpin Street. Our neighbor is not shy and doesn’t mind posing for the camera either! Bad news is we’ll probably find him going through our trash or hitting us up for food soon if he doesn’t break into our house first! Cholo won’t go near […]
Got into Melbourne late afternoon. We’re in China town again! Day 13 Sept. 26th Our travel agent booked us on the Echidna Walkabout tour. Damn you Koalas!! Paul, our poor tour guide tried valiantly to spot one of these elusive creatures for us for most of the tour in You Yangs Regional Park, but we
Day 10 Sept. 23rd Chris came home early and we drove 63 kilometers to Turquoise Bay in Ningaloo Reef Park. It was a wonderful drive. We passed hundreds of red termite hills in the desert. Turquoise Bay was fun! We did the Drift part of the bay. We walked into the sea on one side
Exmouth was the reason for our trip so Chris could perform a 2 day training class for the Boeing American/Australian military base which is one of only four submarine communication generating sites in the world. I knew from Google pictures that Exmouth was well known for big game fishing and diving/snorkeling. I thought that while
Day Seven Sept. 20-21 I finished the first book of the Game of Thrones. I only bought the one book in the States thinking that 500+ pages would be enough to hold me over the entire trip and that Chris would yell at me and say that I could buy the rest of the series
Day Four, Sept. 17 We packed up our suitcases this morning. Ate breakfast at an Asian bakery up the street. Tasty little buns; chocolate, pineapple, sausage and durian crepe. I could not eat the crepe, had a couple of bites before throwing the rest in the trash. We walked to Paddy’s markets, an indoor swap
As we were getting close to the airport, I looked down at the ground and was surprised by the eerie red sand of the land. It looked like we were about to land on Mars instead of Ayers Rock Airport. There are two gates at this airport, in and out. When you walk through the
Day Five, Sept. 18 We picked up our transport to Port Douglas. After the hour long bumpy van ride we arrived at our port. We were warned that the water was going to be choppy and to take some nausea medicine. The pills were made up of powdered ginger. The sailboat ride was a little
Day Three, Sept. 16 Our full-day tour of the Blue Mountains and Australian wildlife began at 7:30am. We took a small coach ride to our 46 person large coach ride. We were picked up at the Star Casino and whisked off to Leura, a small village in the Blue Mountains. The mountains look blue in
Day One, Sept. 14 Very tired. So tired. We arrived in Sydney at about 8am. Checked into the hotel at 9:30am and had their famous Sanger sandwich. It was toast with ketchup, sausage, two triangles of hash browns, bacon and maybe an egg. We visited the Australian Museum, a natural history museum. My