All Summer Long

We spent two days walking the esplanade at Hervey Bay. We sized it up, uncovered its secrets. These are the things we learned: It is traditional for chippies to serve their sausages crumbed At Madigan’s Fish & Chips, calamari is…

Yeppoon was our gateway to the warm waters of Great Keppel Island. We crossed over by ferry from Rosslyn Bay Harbour, excited that we were finally on a boat trip, but unaware that we would spend the morning lost in…

On our travels, we’d heard mixed opinions on Airlie Beach. It’s a resort town on the Whitsunday Coast and is a very popular location with backpackers. After spending a couple of days there, we could easily see why. There are…

We’ve been staying in Cairns, which is in close proximity to plenty of rainforest, coastline and the great barrier reef. Bite marks have formed constellations around Nicola’s ankles, left by the colony of invisible insects that crawl us in the…

Circulating ourselves around Sydney was easy enough from our base in Ultimo near Darling Harbour. Central Station was only a short walk along the Goodsline, an elevated walkway through the city and underground that follows the route of the long-neglected railway…

We exited the domestic terminal at Sydney and looked for the pickup location we had been given for our transfer. This whole thing had been an ordeal from the start: we’d gone with a cheap firm to save some money…

We were excited to get to Adelaide as we had heard lots of good things about it and it didn’t disappoint.  On our way, we stopped off at a couple of beaches and enjoyed nice walks along the coast. We…

We can no longer distinguish between what’s lizard and what’s not. Burnt wood and debris at the side of the road in Australia appears as a mirage of snakes and spiders; all of the dangerous things we (I) desperately want…

This will only be a quick post but just wanted to fill you in on a couple of places we stopped off at along the coast. First up was Warrnambool which is a cool place just at the end of…