A Travel Blog
Shh, don’t tell Ian, but I was apprehensive about coming to Tasmania in the spring. Indeed, I’m always apprehensive about travelling anywhere in spring; it can be so changeable. So, with much of our Tasmanian trip to be focused on the outdoors, I worried that cold, windy weather would spoil it, because, let’s face it, … Read more
When we planned this trip we had three priorities – visit Ian, Helen and Oscar, of course; explore MONA; and walk in Freycinet National Park. Having now achieved these things we could go home, but we won’t as our appetites have been whetted for more. We must say that, so far, despite its being Spring, … Read more
No, I’m not talking about our hosts, generous though they are. I’m talking, rather, about Maria Island and what one entrepreneur said was needed to make it commercially successful! Maria Island, whose indigenous name is Toara-Marra-Mona*, has a fascinating history, but I’m only going to give you a very potted one here – and then let the photos … Read more
Our last full day in the park was a cool one with a forecast maximum of 13°C, though we think it eventually got to 15°C. Our aim was to do the last of the three main walks we had planned to do in the region, the Valley of Winds Walk in Kata Tjuta. We got to the … Read more
The Centre is a vast place, and you can drive around it for kilometres, enjoying its subtle diversity without seeing anything particularly stunning until suddenly the Western MacDonnells or Watarrka or Uluru or Kata Tjuta or one of the other sparsely scattered but dramatic landforms will appear. Many explorers wandered Australia’s vast interior, some rather … Read more