Return to Oz

Word/phrase of the stay: Redneck central Stayed: Coolibah Lodge ($52 p/n), Aaron Hotel ($90p/n), Richards of Northridge B&B ($79p/n), Rottnest Island Holiday Park ($69p/n) Activities: Sightseeing, beach, Rottnest Island, Margaret River Overall o...

 

Christmas, New Year, Family Reunion and Grandma's 86th in Adelaide

We had a great family reunion on New Year's Day, at Peggy's Place. Family members came from all over to be there! Sue and Wayne drove from Horsham in the morning, great effort....

 

Do you come from a land Down under?

Sept. 2005: The trip over here went well, although I almost missed my early birdy morning flight from Helsinki to Vienna, because of luggage check-in problems. Later I got in trouble with the airport police in Vienna, because the number in my Visa ...

 

April April

Last week was my mid-semester break and I spent 6 days in Sydney. I had originally planned to travel alone (let's say that no one was available), but one of my friends from Valencia (Spain) happened to come to Australia (he's doing a trip around the wo...

 

Great Ocean Road & Phillip Island, Australia

Our road trip in Australia....

 

Gap Year 2004

Me and Deaj organised to take a couple of days off work and head out to the Blue Mountains for a bit of fresh air. James really enjoyed his trips there, so it really had to be done. We shot over on a train to Katoomba, one of the larger towns in th...

 

The land down under

Cruise WhitSundays Diving course...

 

South Australia, Victoria and ACT

We spent a couple of nights here, to recouperate from the long days of driving across the Nullabor. Our first evening was eventful as we noticed a lot of kangaroos in the campground. One approached our van and before we knew it, had lunged for our ba...

 

Visitors in Geelong

Chris and Phil were in Melbourne for a wedding, so they drove down to Geelong to visit with us for the day. Apart from enjoying some food and lots of talking, the boys took the dog for a walk along the river, then we met at Barwonedge Boathouse where w...

 

New Zealand 2006

We arrived in Rotorua early afternoon and checked into the Conference Hotel, the Novotel Royal Lakeside. To be continued....................

 

Home in Geelong

This is a Long Weekend to celebrate the Queen's Birthday. Last night we went to a Mad Hatters Dinner at the Steakhouse in Geelong....

 

Rotary Conference District 9870 2007

We escaped Geelong on Thursday afternoon and drove the 2+ hours to Warrnambool. Stayed at the Fig Tree Holiday Village in an apartment, which was very comfortable. Dinner that night was seafood (David had lobster) and a bit of a walk around. Friday mor...

 

Ruth's Baptism

The weekend started early on the arrival into Geelong of Wendy and Peter from Adelaide on Thursday. Wendy and I went to scrapbooking for 4 hours on Thursday evening. Friday evening Michelle flew into Avalon and on Saturday morning Wendy and I did anoth...

 

4WD Adventure

Packed up the car and headed off to Wyperfeld National Park, through Ballarat, Avoca, St Arnaud and Hopetoun. Wyperfeld is a sandy area in the western part of Victoria sometimes called the Murray Outback. There were great camping facilities there and...

 

Around home 2005/2006

Weekend camping in Howqua valley with Cal & Michael, Mel & Steve. Commonwealth Games opening night on the banks of the Yarra....

 

European Getaway

Before arriving in Nice today we stopped off at a French perfumary called Fragonard. We had a tour of the lab, heard about the elusive "Nose", who makes up the purfumes for each factory. Apparently it takes something like 1000kg of flowers ...