Well, getting back on to my travel blog, I am currently pulling and tidying my travel journal into a coherent book format - who knows, I might publish this year! It could be my 2017 dream - or for you, maybe travel is that dream this coming year!? If so, please read the journal entries, …
Category: Australia
New Year Reflection
Here in Australia we had NY almost first (NZ gets that) so was weird. Ours over and done when you got it!!! Just back from 'up the river (Murray)' for a few days this year, and me in a tent. First night with Remmy, my great nephew and the second on my own as he …
Fascinating Fauna
Out last night to see the kangaroos come out at dusk, we saw about 80 just round Molly's Run, the fantastic 'b & b' where I am staying with a friend. Just four guest rooms, I am in the top room overlooking farmland leading to the sea, on the north of the island near Smith …
Leaving Oz behind!
Well, ending my Aussie leg of my travels I am currently flying out of Adelaide leaving behind family and friends once again. Tears saying bye to sister Sue with whom Ive stayed most of my 6 weeks in Adelaide, instead of trying Perth and Broome as Ive never been, and great niece and great nephews …
KI Capers Pt 3
Day 3 Charmaine was back from Adelaide, so we hung around the house, those two never stopping with changes, repairs, watering or cooking and cleaning up. I went in to Kingscote while Paul did some bits, and had a quick wander through. We called to do bits and pieces along the way and back, like …
KI Capers (Pt 1)
So what have I been doing on Kangaroo Island, just off Adelaide via Cape Jervis? Staying with an old friend/employer from my 23 year spent in Adelaide, Paul and his partner Charmaine, at a beautiful setting Molly's Run up near Smith Bay on the north coast. About half hour out of Kingscote, a small seaside …
Humid Cairns to humid Darwin
Well, arrived from Cairns to Darwin 28 Nov -2 Dec (weird with hot December, Christmas shopping in shorts and putting up decorations in a vest top!!) and its so humid in Darwin, one day I felt unable to breathe easily for a minute as I Stepped out the door! Darwin is different, a town still …
Too busy doing not writing!
Highlights so far have been: Diving the barrier reef on Silver Swift with my nephew, Sam, supervising the boat! I snorkelled to get me into it, then got to do two intro dives with very basic skills and holding on mostly to each other in fours with a qualified diver guide. I did have a …
Crocodiles!!!!
One I've seen, although captive now, at 5.5 metres called Wendell who has a long term partner only about 2 metres if that! They still produce young after several years and she apparently has been a calming influence as he was taken into Crocosaurus Cove after becoming too dangerous to humans in the wild. He …
Just sitting in the rain…
Sounds silly? What about in my swimsuit, by Cairns 'sea front' by a swimming lagoon? Between the showers, coming with the imminent wet season I hit in each new place, I sunbathed in hot sun but it was often too much for a fair skinned English girl! Lounging in the deeper water, sitting by the …
