An Easy-Going, Melbourne City Routine.
We have evolved a Melbourne routine. We buy the newspaper at the 24/7 supermarket next door to the hotel, read the paper over breakfast in the hotel, then head out for the day. Today, despite predictions of rain and cool weather,...
Rainy Movie Day in Melboune, Australia
Raining and overcast, we decide to have a movie day. Classic followsummer from January 2004 I must admit there is a little guilt attached to this but John points out that “if that’s what we want to do then we should do it.” After...
Tasting the Yarra Valley.
Our day starts with the headlines telling us about the rampant and devastating flooding that has hit Melbourne yesterday in the late afternoon and overnight. We are heading out to the Yarra Valley for a day of wine tasting today...
At Home, in the Kuranda Rainforest.
S16° E145° We blow out of Melbourne relatively easily today with many wonderful memories. We are thoroughly impressed and enchanted with it, and leave wishing we could stay. Everywhere you look there are magnificent parks and...
Gone Fishin’ in Australia
Wednesday, February 4th, 2004: Cairns, Australia classic followsummer from February 2004 Greg and John are doing their scuba diving certification right now, on the Great Barrier Reef here in Australia. No kidding, we’re...
Diving the Great Barrier Reef
Although it rains heavily again last night, the sun wakes us early – a good thing as we have booked dives for today, and we need to be on the pier by 8:00. We are diving from a different boat today than our other dives: while we...
Monsoon: Driving into a Wall of Water
Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain! Just when we thought the day might turn nice, yet more rain! Torrential, teaming, monsoon downpours of rain. This is not a complaint, simply an observation. It is warm, it is t-shirt and shorts...
Our Excellent Campervan Adventure Begins
S19° E147° The news this morning tells us that a cyclone has blown in from the Pacific, over the Great Barrier Reef and the Coral Sea, and has landed a couple of hundred kilometres up the coast from Cairns – so heavy rains are...
Campervans and Kangaroos in Yamba, Australia
S29° E153° Ahhhhh, the campervan life. Who knew about grey water, or sullage, as they call it here. Or as they may call it in Canada too. I don’t know. We aren’t campervan people. And the overview and walk-through...
The Campervan Chronicles: Driving to South West Rocks
Today is an easy driving day – we do not have far to go to our next destination. We have chosen South West Rocks because it is reputed to have excellent diving – an underwater tunnel to an underwater cave, with hard corals and...