Sailing the Whitsunday Islands

Bush fire on the road to Airlee beach   Our Whitsundays sailing weather. Boooo!   Enid   Stingray and Frank at Whitehaven beach   Change in the weather lifts the mood   Where the bloody hell are you?   Raising the sails   On the deck  

North Queensland

Blah Blah Our camp spot at Lake Tinnaroo, sweeet   Twitcher   Tuna mornay at Lake Tinnaroo, Atherton   Lady of the lake   Cooktown - pretty far north Qld   Spider & it's red spider babies   Ensuring nobody follows us...   Cape Tribulation beach (very thai)   More dangerous stuff   ...

Exmouth and Cape Range National Park

Another few hours drive got us up to Exmouth and the Cape Range national park. Apart from food and booze shopping we didn’t really see the town as we preferred to stay at these small campsites inside the national park. There were a couple of snorkelling spots but none of them matched up to the quality of Coral bay. Our favourite spot was Yardie Creek where we met a bunch of surfers from Margaret ...

The Ningaloo Reef

We left Carnarvon and the Blow Holes behind us and drove north to Coral Bay, which was less than 2 hours. On the way I got pretty excited as we crossed the Tropic of Capricorn… meaning we were now in “the tropics”!  We’d been looking forward to this part of WA as it’s the beginning of the Ningaloo reef which is home to lots of marine life and good snorkelling. We booked ourselves into a caravan ...

Trip to Sydney / NSW

Bellavista Eco-lodge (cloud forest)

This lovely little sanctuary is 2 hours north west of Quito in the cloud forest. For 2 nights we slept on the top floor of a 4 story bamboo tree house, with 360 degree views of the cloud forest. During the day we followed various nature trails, steadily increasing our status as “Birdo’s”  We cased the forest for Toucans mainly and back at the lodge sat around watching 100s and 1000s of ...

Our trip is "On like Donkey Kong" !!!

    Yo yo yo Venice Beach West side! We've just spent our 1 day in LA on wacky Venice Beach. I think we made the right choice. This place is madness... So far the yanks are proving to be very funny. This loud girl in the toilets was telling her friend (on her mobile) that the party was "On like donkey kong"!  We've also seen an advert for a husband and wife couple in real estate with ...