Tag: Australia


Last Stop…Sydney Adventuriety

The last stop for this trip was a few days in Sydney before heading home to California for a quick pit stop and three weeks of sleeping in our own beds and reveling in unmetered internet.    Ironically, because of our internet diet in Coolangatta, we watched the Food Network out of Sydney some evenings and enjoyed many commercials for Sydney’s Gay and Lesbian Mardi...

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Australia Zoo Adventuriety

My running partner was the first to mention Australia Zoo to me when I started asking her about the “not to be missed” places around her husband’s home town, Caloundra.  Her advice was the Australia Zoo, you know the zoo that Steve Irwin founded and his family operates?  Actually, I had no idea that Steve Irwin founded a zoo (his dad started it with a few crocodiles),...

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Noosa Heads… Australia! Adventuriety

Scott and I spent almost three months in Australia on our honeymoon over seventeen years ago.  We had just graduated from college, we were madly in love and had both thrown caution to the wind, surprised a few folks, and tied the knot.  It’s a great story and some of you know it, as do our kids, so it’s not too shocking. Here we are, finally...

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