Parks

  • February 20, SMA

    February 20, SMA

    Beverly, an absolute trooper, is picking us up at 9 a.m. to take us on a curated tour an hour outside SMA, of El Charco del Ingenio, a 170-acre botanical preserve, basically an area purchased and donated by Federico Gamma… Continue reading

  • Apr 12 Bendigo to Port Douglas

    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

  • Apr 11 Hall’s Gap to Bendigo

    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

  • Mar 28 Hobart to Strahan

    Drive Hobart to Strahan via Mt Fields National Park and ”the wall” We try to leave Michael and Ingrid’s immaculate and fascinatingly art-filled apartment as neat and tidy as it welcomed us, and we motor out of Hobart, over its… Continue reading

  • Feb 17 Turangi

    Climb Tongariro on the Alpine Crossing It’s dark when we wake at 6, pack for the looong climb, load into the car and drive to the Ketehati Car Park from whence we’ll be shuttled to the other side of the… Continue reading