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Apr 27 Sydney to Nadi, Fiji
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We’re at the airport by 7:30 and use our remaining Aussie cash to buy several bottles in the duty free shop. Our first plane, from Sydney to Auckland boards about an hour late. Even though the plane is on the… Continue reading
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Apr 26 Sydney
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Ferry to Manly for the day. After a relatively lazy morning of sleep and laundry, we hop on a series of trains to board the ferry at Darling Harbor, destined for Manly Beach. We take the slow ferry and pass… Continue reading
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Apr 24 Sydney
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Drive to Bondi and other Sydney beaches and dinner at Italian restaurant. Travel is good for the soul but it can be hard on the elderly body. Our hosts leave for a variety of appointments and we spend the morning… Continue reading
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Apr 23 Sydney
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Walking tour of Sydney After a quick brekkie, Cynthia and I walk out David and Gaye’s back yard door, cross a small dog park and get on the light rail for downtown Sydney, about 40 minutes distant. We go to… Continue reading
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Apr 22 Melbourne to Sydney
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Jim drives us to the Melbourne airport where we visit the food kiosks in the domestic departures terminal for the sixth and last time, this one on our way to Sydney. David Williams (not the same person as in Melbourne… Continue reading
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Apr 16 Daintree to Melbourne
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We finally discover why Daintree is called a rain forest. Pluvial does not describe today’s weather. “Torrential” is too tame. We pack in a lull between heavenly cascades and leave our lodge in pouring rain, thankful that we had sunny… Continue reading
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Apr 14 Daintree
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We have a quick breakfast and David, being the slow and stubborn learner he always has been, simply drinks coffee and eats nothing despite Cynthia’s admonition that he might want some energy seeing as how he’ll be snorkeling for two… Continue reading
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Apr 13 Port Douglas to Daintree
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We leave Port Douglas late after enjoying our wonderful suite, planning our next few days and having lunch. We pass through miles of tall green sugar cane on both sides of the Captain Cook Highway until we reach a ferry… Continue reading
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Apr 9 Hahndorf to Hall’s Gap
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Visit Penfolds winery in Barossa Valley and drive to Halls Gap. We graze the rolling hills down to a flat plain that is baked into submission by the sun: Shiraz country. Home to Peter Lehman and Penfolds. Birthplace of The… Continue reading
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Apr 1 Launceston
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Exploring Launceston. Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Cynthia, happy birthday to you. I love being married to a fifty-year old who looks forty. Cynthia and I walk down the hill, past the old Catholic… Continue reading
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Mar 31 Launceston
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Sheffield with murals everywhere, Deloraine community embroidery project, salmon and ginseng farm. David runs the Inglis River track in the other direction this morning, toward Bass Highway (named after George, first circumnavigator of Tassie), and meets the same good-lookin gal… Continue reading
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Mar 29 Strahan to Wynyard
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Walking around Strahan harbor, collecting mushrooms for dinner in Wynyard with family. After a quick continental breakfast in the 1896 mansion that’s our hotel, we walk left around Strahan’s bay to an old train station, look at its Thomas the… Continue reading
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Mar 27 Hobart to Port Arthur
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Port Arthur, Tasman Arch, Dogline at Eaglehawk Neck Blue sky everywhere. Sandwiches, check. Chips, check. Cameras and phones, check. Chargers, check. Gas, check. Warm layers, check. Sunglasses, check. We’re on the road to Port Arthur, a kilometer of cars in… Continue reading
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Mar 26 Hobart
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Day in town for museum, Mawson’s hut and shopping. What a difference a day … an hour … makes. Sunrise is like the inside of a conch shell, the white center giving way to soft and gradually darker pinks with… Continue reading
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Mar 25 Hobart
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MONA art gallery and Mt. Wellington Tasmania. The name alone conjures wild, hairy, grinning cartoon figures straight out of Disney. Before we came here, it was certainly less substantial in our minds than New Zealand, which is two islands, or… Continue reading
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Mar 24 Hobart
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Rain pelts our bedroom windows through the night and we wake to a light drizzle. Thankfully, our seventeenth bed on this trip — yes, you read that number right — is firm and comfortable and we have a lazy morning.… Continue reading
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Mar 15 Greymouth
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Travel Fox to Greymouth retracing our steps. We get up, caffeinate, pack — yech, seems like we’re always packing for one reason or another — and drive out of Fox Glacier after Cynthia makes a couple egg salad sandwiches for… Continue reading
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Mar 14 Fox Glacier
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Heli-hike on Fox Glacier and circumnavigate Lake Matheson. We wake, dress, get caffeinated and are at the Fox Glacier Heli-hiking office a two-minute walk from our split-level rooms. We ask the Asian gal behind the counter if our 8:50… Continue reading
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Mar 13 Okarito to Fox Glacier
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Kayak on lagoon and travel to Fox. We have 8:00 a.m. coffee and tea with Rich and Karen, lodge-mates from Madison, Wisconsin, who are going on the Okarito lagoon bird-watching kayak adventure with us at 8:45. As we prepare to… Continue reading
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Mar 10 Westport to Hokitika
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Drive to Hokitika for Wildfoods Festival and Pancake Rocks along the way. We try to take care of administrative matters before we leave the Archer House in Westport but its caretakers, Jackie and Charlie, who are about to tour Scotland… Continue reading
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