We flew into Ayers Rock, now known as Uluru, the lands having been given back to the local people by the Australian government. The sky was clear, the air was cooked and the red desert was dotted with green scrub, trees and grass that had taken advantage of unusual rain to colour patches around waterholes. […]
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Salties, spiders and snakes!
Having wandered along many of the Cairns Northern Beaches, stepped over fresh water rivers and streams that the rains had created, looking all around us for large reptilians creeping up on us we decide the car is the safest place. We continued our exploration by moving onto the Daintree National Park and Cape Tribulation. On approaching […]
Wet, wet Queensland
We arrive in Cairns in north Queensland and back in the tropics once again. Snakes, spiders, salties, stingers and rain. All of these deadly dangerous things can kill, even by boredom, and it would be only a matter of time before one of them got us. Australia has half of the most venomous snakes in […]
Lovely to be back in this great city!
We arrived in Sydney, Australia to spend the weekend with a good friend Iain, and his boys Tyler (13) and Connor (11) who had tragically lost wife and mother Joanne to cancer 6 weeks ago. Jo was in her early 40s, full of life and love and a centre piece of the local community and […]
Family Time
We left Tahiti heading for Auckland. It is a five hour flight that takes 27 hours because we cross the International Date Line. Thus, Thursday passed in a flash and we have no memory of it. Have we been robbed of a day of our lives? Perhaps we have been abducted by aliens who have […]
Time for some R&R
Leaving Easter Island there are only two directions to go: either back to Santiago or on to Tahiti. Going to Tahiti is a no brainer because we are heading to New Zealand and it seems like a good place to stop for a bit of R&R as we get used to some major time changes. […]
Anyone fancy a statue?
With a heavy heart and, in Debbie’s case, tears in her eyes we depart South America after nearly 6 months of travelling around fulfilling dreams of exploring the huge continent. We have been really lucky to have enjoyed experiences, people and unique cultures giving us a good understanding of the countries within. So with a hop, […]