Category: Interstate Trips

  • 2024-07 Western Australia, Indian Pacific and Sydney

    2024-07 Western Australia, Indian Pacific and Sydney

    Not long after returning from our Europe trip, we were off again. This time to Western Australia for a few days before boarding the Indian Pacific train from Perth to Sydney. Around Bunbury We stayed in Bunbury for 3 nights. The first day, the weather was not great and so we went to the Dolphin…

  • 2023-12 Christmas in Brisbane

    2023-12 Christmas in Brisbane

    For a complete change, we decided to spend Christmas in the Stamford Plaza in Brisbane. We were lucky because the weather in Brisbane was far better than it was in Kalorama and so we were able to wander around the parks and gardens and see many birds and animals. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML gallery: 1

  • 2023-06 The Kimberley

    2023-06 The Kimberley

    The holiday that was originally booked in early May 2019 finally happened in June 2023 more than four years later. We all know what happened in between. Anyway, it was a terrific holiday over 30 days with both a land and a sea component. The trip is described below. To skip everything except a few…

  • 2023-04 Lord Howe Island

    2023-04 Lord Howe Island

    Lord Howe Island is a dot in the south Pacific ocean, 600km due east from Port Macquarie in New South Wales which in turn is roughly halfway between Sydney and Brisbane. We set off for Lord Howe Island via Sydney from a miserable damp Melbourne and travelled via taxi (Steve of course) and two flights.…

  • 2022-03 Ballarat to South Australia

    2022-03 Ballarat to South Australia

    So after weeks and months of COVID lockdowns, we really felt the need to get away. Even the risk of being with several thousand people was not enough to put us off heading to Port Fairy for the folk festival. Prior to going we had a chat with Kirsten, our travel agent and she suggested…

  • 2016-10 Trip to the Top End

    2016-10 Trip to the Top End

    To celebrate Hazel’s big birthday, we took a fabulous trip to the Northern Territory. We began and ended our trip in Darwin, a city that we found to be very pleasant city to walk around with parks, bars and restaurants. Web gallery ZoneramaHTML gallery: 2 After a couple of nights in Darwin we headed off…