Another Milestone Passed and Balancing on the Fulcrum
Captain Arrrr #1… Captain Arrrr redux…… Hi again to all family and friends near and far. Got a few recent notes that the blogs have fallen off in frequency. I suppose that’s true …. Well, at least someone noticed! So, today’s post will take a slightly different tack. As we are approaching our second anniversary […]
Melbourne and The Great Ocean Road- Girl’s Road Trip #2
DDU and the Girls, Great Ocean Road, Victoria Brisbane airport sign, not Hawaii… Life has really accelerated for us all in Australia, with full time ED work and 5 kids in school. No longer wide-eyed visitors to this remarkable continent, we are now somewhat more settled, working and living here; and that’s a very different […]
Kakadu and Litchfield National Parks- Boys Outback adventure- Part 3
Lower Pool Koolpin Gorge, sunrise. See anything moving…? Early morning outback selfie…Frightening…. OK, outback adventure, third and final installment, promise…Thanks for sticking it out…Up early, into Koolpin Gorge…Not psyched to climb all the way back up into the third pool, due to fatigue and general bad juju…Water calm, clear…hmmm… inviting….No Crocs evident, anyone up for […]
Kakadu National Park– Boys Outback adventure, Part 2
In part two, we are up early and heading for the Yellow Water Billabong sunrise wetland tour. It’s popular, and an excellent way to get out on the wetlands that are so much a part of Kakadu. The tour is part of a hotel and restaurant complex that’s owned and operated by the local “traditional […]
Darwin, Kakadu and the “Top End” –Boys Outback adventure, Part 1
After a few months of planning I was finally ready to take Luke and Aidan on a boy’s Outback adventure. 10 nights, 9 camping rough in a 2 man mountain tent. 1400 kilometers (850 miles) into the bush. All heat, sweat, stink, dusty roads, snakes and crocs. Also Barramundi fishing, gorge hiking and mountain stream […]
Country Queensland Part 2, Cedar Glen Farmstay
Staying in the old dairy workers cottage So, as promised in Scenic Rim, part 1: Easter weekend, farmstay, 10 kids…Mayhem….and a REALLY great time! Main road walking The Old Farmstead, over 100 years old Anticipation…. The Cedar Glen Farmstay is one of the oldest Eco-lodges in Australia. It sits in the middle of a 1000+ […]
Country Queensland and the Scenic Rim
Mt. Lindsey in morning mist Even though we all know Australia is a vast, under-populated continent, total pop. around 23 million, I think Americans tend to think of Australia as being all hot and dusty outback; and sort of barren. Well, there’s plenty of that for sure. But there’s also a vast and sprawling ranch […]
Fraser Island a World Heritage Site, and Rainbow Beach adventures
Fraser Island Dingo- Yet another Aussie icon It summer’s end here in the Southern Hemisphere, heading into fall…Rainy season in SE QLD. We don’t have the true tropical monsoonal Big Wet and Dry of the “Top End”, but it’s pretty rainy, steady and heavy off and on for several weeks; and this on the heels […]
The Landrys Visit- Five friends from the USA!!
The whole crew, Stradbroke Island Our good friends from Cooperstown, NY, Gerald and Colette Landry, came to Cleveland, Queensland as part of their “great adventure down under”. We travelled quite a bit, saw some of the sights of SE QLD and NE NSW, with eight (!) kids in tow…It all went really well, we had […]
TAS-MANIA…!!
Wineglass Bay overlook Hobart harbor Stephanie and I finally found the right nanny, and got away for an eight day trip alone to Tasmania. There was a four day Emergency Medicine conference in Hobart, the tidy capital; then a three night road trip up the east coast. It was our first trip away alone in […]