2018
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August 22 Seattle CHS
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Our last day together in Seattle. Planned lazy morning and packing for our early departures tomorrow. Carolyn wants us to read a New Yorker article on Alex Katz before our museum tour. It is fun to see her enthusiasm… Continue reading
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May 7 Nadi
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Snorkel in Mamanuca islands off Port Denarau. We walk down the path from Jane’s house to the Denarau Marina, hoping we can move ourselves from yesterday’s waitlist for the Coral Cats all-day cruise to the outer islands for sun, sand,… Continue reading
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May 3 Suva to Rakiraki
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Buy kava from Koro at Suva market, Wayne and Myra connect with family of old friend, drive to Rakiraki. Cynthia and I wake early for two reasons: 1) So we can drive into central Suva to pick up her sulu… Continue reading
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Apr 30 Nadi to Suva
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Queens Road from Nadi to Suva with interesting stop in Sigatoka for lunch and old Tongan fort. We load bags into the trunk of our VW Polo and tool out of Nadi under sunny skies, heading south for Suva. Our… Continue reading
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Apr 25 Sydney
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ANZAC Day Parade Despite Cynthia’s cold — it’s a doozy and she IS a trooper — we get up early-ish and put on some nice-ish clothes because our host, David Williams, will march in the parade and has invited us… Continue reading
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Apr 21 Melbourne
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After breakfast, Cynthia and I take the train into Melbourne to see Simon’s sculptures in 101 Collins Street. The office building is the “Fifth Avenue” of Melbourne, so the Bulgari jewelry store down the street has two guards dressed as… Continue reading
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Apr 20 Melbourne
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During brekkie, Jim and Jenni show us photographs of the sheep farm they bought and renovated and lived in about a light year in the past: fifty-plus acres and more than 100 sheep and a variety of other animals. Then David… Continue reading
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Apr 19 Sandy Point to Williamstown
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Sadly, the Big Chill must end and after brekkie we pack, load into Jim and Jenni’s car to return to Williamstown — leaving David Williams to burn trash and find the Tiger snake, and Helen to catch a bus to… Continue reading
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Apr 18 Sandy Point
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David runs along a typical twisting-through-the-forest-along-the-edge-of-the-water path to an inlet, watching for koala and Tiger snakes. None. The tide is out so the inlet is a mud flat about the size of four baseball fields. Several pelicans, a dozen black… Continue reading
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Apr 17 Melbourne to Sandy Point
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Tuesday morning continues our string of basically beautiful weather. After caffeinating we load David and Helen’s diesel Range Rover, get $225 of gas poured into its two tanks, and motor about three-plus hours to Sandy Point, a beautiful beach community… Continue reading
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Apr 15 Daintree
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We come at 9:15 for the lodge’s continental brekkie so we completely fail to understand why no one seems concerned that tables are dirty and there’s no bread to be toasted and lukewarm coffee in the carafe. We later learn… Continue reading
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Apr 12 Bendigo to Port Douglas
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Drive from Bendigo to Hanging Rock. Then on to Melbourne airport, fly to Cairns, and drive to Port Douglas. Quite a day! Our creation myth, our personal Dreamtime, is that Cynthia was working between teaching gigs for Sandy McKenzie at… Continue reading
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Apr 11 Hall’s Gap to Bendigo
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Halls gap to Bendigo museums and parks. We say au revoir until Fiji to Wayne and Myra, load the car, clean the cabin and depart on almost totally empty roads for Bendigo, one of Victoria state’s major gold-mining towns of… Continue reading
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Apr 10 Hall’s Gap to Dreamtime
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Visit with Hanson family, tour area with Aboriginal guide. What do 1,000 cockatoos sound like in the morning right outside your window? Answer: You don’t know because you can’t think. The sound is so loud that it numbs your senses.… Continue reading
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Apr 8 McLaren Vale, Glenelg, Adelaide
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McLaren Vale wine, lunch and Glenelg beach walk with Doull’s, Adelaide evening. We caffeinate, throw laundry into the hotel’s machine, arrange for maids to dry it and put it in our room, and make tracks for vineyards in McLaren Vale,… Continue reading
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Apr 7 Hahndorf in Adelaide Hills
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Wine tasting in Adelaide Hills. Life begins twice a day: when you get up and when you have your first cocktail. After a morning and early afternoon doing administrative chores related to “where are wee staying next, how will we… Continue reading
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Apr 6 Port Fairy to Hahndorf
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Long drive from Port Fairy to the Adelaide Hills with Coonawarra wine tasting on the way. We get a very late start after administrative chores and shopping for sandwiches to take on the road, so we’re on the road to… Continue reading
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Apr 5 Port Campbell to Port Fairy
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Early visit to 12 Apostles and Loch Ard Gorge for morning views, walk on beach where shipwreck survivors landed, sleep in charming Port Fairy. We wake early and bomb back east on B100 to see Loch Ard’s spectacular rocks in… Continue reading
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Apr 4 Otway Lightstation to Port Campbell
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Walk around Cape Otway light station, hike Maits Rest park and Melba Gully park for old forests, see sunset at 12 Apostles. We wake and David walks into the bush and photographs his second wallaby (our iPad ewill not accept… Continue reading
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Apr 3 Lorne to Cape Otway Lightstation
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Visit parks and sleep at a lightstation. The Great Ocean Road. Yes it is. Yes, it really is. We happily leave the Grand Pacific Hotel and drive on a road that winds gently toward Erskine Falls in the… Continue reading
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