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4 Feb 2016

Point Moore Lighthouse, Geraldton

posted in: Western Australia |

Geraldton has one of those iconic lighthouses. Those red and white stripes can’t be missed. It’s only about 5km from the centre of Geraldton and has a busy beach across the road. The light house was built in Britain and shipped to Point Moore. The sign gives detail of its history, when they went to erect the lighthouse they realised the foundation had been laid in the wrong place and had to start all over. The lighthouse had 60+ keepers … Read More

2 Feb 2016

Our Australia Day in Margaret River

posted in: Western Australia |

Several weeks ago I got some lovely Aussie temporary tattoos for the kids in anticipation of Australia Day. I hid them away so they’d be a surprise. Nearly a week past the holiday we still haven’t found them. They’re in the van somewhere, they’ll show up eventually and we’ll have a nice surprise. The day before the holiday I grabbed some of the yellow & green ones that were on sale so we survived. (Yes, survived. How do you survive … Read More

31 Jan 2016

A new blog design!

posted in: all |

Now that I’ve transferred to WordPress I can no longer use the graphics from my old template, so I’ve updated everything with a fresh new design. I’m still playing around with it a bit and trying to decide if I want to ‘go public’ with this blog. We’ve only ever given the blog info to a few people here and there. The idea of sharing our travel memories is a bit unsettling, so I must not be quite ready yet. … Read More

23 Jan 2016

The Perth Zoo, part one

posted in: Western Australia |

For Christmas we got ourselves a membership to the Melbourne Zoo, which gives us a reciprocal membership to several zoos around the country, including the Perth Zoo. It was definitely summer while we were in Perth so we checked the weather forecast and chose the coolest day to head to the zoo. It was still quite warm and we were so glad we hadn’t chosen an even hotter day. The zoo is located very much in the middle of the … Read More