see the disclaimer Our stay in Melbourne happened to overlap the 2024 Australian Open, so we decided to grab some tickets to the Men's Semi-Finals and the Women's Final. We found out that the cheap daily entry tickets allow one to see any matches not played in the main venues, including practice sessions. The AO also...

Admirals Arch & Long Nosed Fur Seal Colony December 5, 2023 Flinders Chase National Park, Kangaroo Island, Australia Admirals Arch is one of Kangaroo Island’s most impressive and unusual natural landmarks. It took thousands of years of erosion to create this distinctive rock bridge near the Cape du Couedic Lighthouse...

Cape du Couedic Lighthouse & Trail Flinders Chase National Park Kangaroo Island, Australia December 5, 2023 According to Lighthouses of Australia, the history of this lighthouse goes something like this….the first Europeans to arrive on Kangaroo Island in 1802 was a group led by Matthew Flinders looking for water and...

Remarkable Rocks...really are Remarkable, Admirals Arch is Amazing and the Lighthouse is Lovely! Flinders Chase National Park Kangaroo Island, South Australia December 5, 2023 We drove a little over an hour and a half to get out to the national park on the west coast of Kangaroo Island...Flinders Chase National Park....

Prospect Hill Kangaroo Island, Australia December 6, 2023 We had been driving all around Kangaroo Island, passing the sign for Prospect Hill, multiple times. We finally decided to go ahead and make the stop and see what it was all about. As it turns out, it’s the highest point on Kangaroo Island which surprised me...

Remarkable Rocks Flinders Chase National Park Kangaroo Island, Australia December 5, 2023 What’s so significant about Remarkable Rocks? Easy answer...they are a geological wonder! Over 500 million years and 33,000 feet below the Earth's surface an elemental assault of wind, rain, sea salt erosion created the magical...

Kangaroo Island Wildlife Park Parndana, Kangaroo Island, Australia December 3, 2023 Today was the day I dreamed of my whole life…. ….to hold a koala & bottle feed a baby joey! Both of which I was lucky enough to experience at this amazing little sanctuary on Kangaroo Island called KI Wildlife Park. It’s been in...

Cape Willoughby Conservation Park & Lighthouse Kangaroo Island, South Australia December 2, 2023 We drove out to the far east side of Kangaroo Island on the Dudley Peninsula to Cape Willoughby Conservation Park & Lighthouse. The lighthouse is remarkable in that it was the 1st lighthouse in South Australia and a major...

Point Cartwright Lighthouse & Reserve, Kawana Beach Buddina, Queensland, Australia November 26, 2023 Today was a day to explore and discover! We took the bus out as far as we could and then hiked the rest of the way to the Point Cartwright Lighthouse and Reserve/Beach areas. The lighthouse is a sleek, pentagonal shape...

The Ginger Factory & The Big Pineapple Yandina & Woombye, Queensland, Australia November 24, 2023 Maybe you can catch the Gingerbread Man! We took a side trip out to Yandina to visit the iconic Buderim Ginger Factory, the worlds largest factory. We learned how the ginger is grown, harvested and turned into delicious...