Defiinition of everglade: a swampy grassland especially in southern Florida usually containing saw grass and at least seasonally covered by slowly moving water —usually used in plural. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/everglade There are only two places you will find the everglade environment in the world, Florida and right here in our backyard, Noosa Australia, and we were headed to […]
Read MoreAfter yesterdays fiasco, we had a fairly quiet day today. I think our body clocks are in line with the sun currently, so we’ve got a habit of being up and ready early. So by 8 o’clock we were packing the car and getting ready for our 3 hour trip to Mooloolaba, with a stop […]
Read MoreThankfully, we went to sleep pretty early last night which helped immensely at 5.40 when our alarms went off this morning. Today was another opportunity for us to tick off another UNESCO World Heritage Site – The Great Barrier Reef! We did this with a day tour with Lady Musgrave Experience out to a pontoon […]
Read MoreWe’ve all become accustomed to the early starts; this was made obvious today by the fact that we were all up and packed and ready to leave our Hervey Bay accommodation an hour before we had planned. Today we moved up to Bundaberg. We had an hour and a half to drive, and I still […]
Read MoreTodays original plans were changed last minute, as unfortunately the turtle boat tour we were going to go on was cancelled late yesterday due to high winds. Safety first. Without any solid plans in place, I got up relatively early and started trying to catch up on yesterdays blog. I was quickly distracted from this […]
Read More18,689 steps taken, ~140 km driven, and a World Heritage UNESCO site ticked off the bucket list. Today has been a whirlwind. It doesn’t even feel like it really happened. K’gari, originally known as The Great Sandy National Park, or Fraser Island is one of the most special natural places I have had the pleasure […]
Read MoreIt feels so good to be back out and exploring again! We started our travel day at about 9 o’clock where we got a lift to the airport for our 11.30 flight. The airports in Australia have been a bit silly recently. With wait times for security lines being reported at over an hour, it […]
Read MoreThis post may be a little different to my usual post – this is a review mixed in a blog. A few months ago for my 30th, our close group of friends gifted me a voucher for Drew and I to visit Japanese Mountain Retreat Mineral Springs & Spa in Montrose, which is a little […]
Read MoreAs many adventures start, we saw this gorgeous attraction on social media, and my friend Tiaarin and I knew we had to make a day of it and see a unique site in south east Australia, Cactus Country. From Melbourne, we had just under a 3 hour drive north to Strathmerton, which is near the […]
Read More12 February 2022 After a long few years being somewhat trapped in our little corner of the world, we’ve decided to get out and see the most special parts of our home country, Australia. For our first trip out (and a little bit of a practise run for future camping trips), we decided to head […]
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