Cooktown is as far north as we are travelling on Cape York. While it would be an adventure to go all the way to the tip it would also be quite a journey. A dusty one, requiring a 4WD that we’d have to hire along with camping gear. Or pay for a tour, but finding a tour for a family of six is difficult and pricey. We’ve heard the trip takes something like twenty hours. That’s a long journey to … Read More
Jumping ahead again! Emu crossing! Yay! We soon found out why… The caravan park had its own resident emu! He was not shy and often came over when he saw us outside. He wasn’t afraid of the kids at all, he probably knew they were likely to have food. This is officially my favourite kind of palm. It’s like the branches are in 3D. I think it’s a foxtail palm. We went across the road to have a bike ride … Read More
A deer crossing sign is one I don’t see very often in Australia. This one seems to be meandering across the road, while the ones on the signs in America are generally leaping across. :) The only place I remember seeing any deer in Australia was in Halls Gap in the Grampians. You certainly don’t see them often here, so seeing a sign for them is interesting to me and is one to add to my collection of roadsigns. While … Read More
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
Here’s part one. By the time we made it near the treetop walk we were getting tired, and the kids were starting to complain again. Fortunately we ran into some people who pointed us in a different direction than the map was telling us to go. We went in the back way to the airwalk, but it was closer and saved us a few steps. It’s very hard to portray how high up we were. The walkways were covered in … Read More
Another road sign to add to my collection! This wombat sign was somewhere between Dunalley on the Tasman Peninsula and Hobart. Our drive into Hobart included not just one bridge… Not just two bridges… But three, yes, three bridges! Okay, the first two were causeways. The last one is the Tasman Bridge. Here’s a glimpse of Hobart as we were crossing the Tasman Bridge over the Derwent River. Hobart is so picturesque. Tasmania only has about 500,000 people and half … Read More