Yearly Archives: 2015

Port Macquarie is officially koala country.  It’s where we first started seeing koala crossing roadsigns, and there were many.  (Roadsigns, that is, not koalas crossing the roads!) This has nothing to do with the rest of this post.  But this guy finally, after much tooth wiggling and patient anticipation, lost his first tooth.  At seven-and-three-quarters.  It was a long time coming.  And it happened at the caravan park in Bonny HIlls, just south of Port Macquarie.  While we were at … Read More

All I have to show for our time in Harrington are some pictures of the kids riding the go-carts at the caravan park we stayed in.  We were so tired after our time in Sydney that we didn’t do much of anything during our stay there.  This park was not busy and when the kids hired the go-carts they were allowed to have them for a couple of hours.  They had been nagging asking to ride them for two days … Read More

We moved out of our house the end of September last year.  We spent about five weeks in America, then came back to our van.  The end of November we started our life on the road.  By the time we got to Sydney, we’d been living in our van for six months. Six months!  The kids are calling this journey our ‘one-year trip’.  At this point I’m pretty sure it will be longer than a year.  We don’t have a … Read More

The day we went to the Pylon Lookout we first walked over by the opera house.  You can’t go there and not go see the opera house.   You get a great view of the bridge on the way there. This is looking back into Circular Quay.  You can see all the tables for the nearby cafes.  And all the seagulls waiting for people to leave their tables. Really, the opera house is hard to photograph up close.  It looks prettier … Read More

We happened to be in Sydney when the Vivid festival started this year.  We hadn’t planned it, but I am so glad we were there for it!  Vivid is unique to Sydney and it’s just spectacular. There are several aspects to Vivid.  We came into the city one evening to view the light installations.  Since it’s winter it gets dark before six, so we came into the city early.  Even with that, it was a very late night for us.  … Read More

Sydney Olympic Park is rather large! We’d read that there are something like 35 km of bike trails there, so we decided to load up the bikes and have a look.  It would have taken over an hour on to get there by train but less than thirty minutes driving, and there is plenty of parking there, so we decided to make the drive.  When we travel we have four bikes on top of the car and one, Ladybug’s, in … Read More