The 45 minute flight from Melbourne to Launceston on Tasmania (or Tassie as they say here) went quickly and after having done so many flights now it’s become nothing more than a busride that takes you to your next destination. Nothing exciting about it anymore.. After picking up our rental car (another Sonata but unfortunately […]
Just two minutes on the passenger ferry and we found ourselves on Raymond Island. The main attraction being a koala colony of around 100 furry creatures.. And we were very lucky; one of them apparently had decided to give us a welcome in the first tree we passed after stepping off the ferry. So cute.. […]
In the past two days we drove from Canberra to Bairnsdale via the Great Alpine Highway. The Alps are pretty but not very high (all summits below 2000 m) and we did not manage to spot even a single kangaroo along the way. The one koala that we did see lives in the Canberra Zoo […]
It was an early flight from Auckland to Sydney. We had to get up at 3:15 am. Not quite my cuppa… The advantage though, was that we had a very long day in Sydney. We picked up our rental car (a big Hyundai Sonata this time) at around 8:15 am. Just in time to drive […]
