Our Walkabout

Planet View: S28°38.317’ E153°36.296’ Street View: S28°38.317’ E153°36.296’ What an awesome spot!  Both Lisa and I had visited Byron before, around the time when we met over 10 years ago in Adelaide (and Lisa also when she was five).  We loved the laid back little beach town as much as we both remembered when we […]

It was a picturesque drive through the rainforests and Eucalyptus bushland out of the mountains from Nymboi Binderay National Park into Coffs Harbour.  As we came out of the foothills to the outskirts of Coffs Harbour the bushland was replaced by groves of banana trees, something for which Coffs Harbour is famous.  Acres upon acres […]

Planet View: S30°11.137’ E152°41.509’ Street View: S30°11.137’ E152°41.509’ After a memorable few days in Adelaide for Sam and Priya’s wedding, we flew back to Sydney to pickup The Tank and continued where we left off on the New South Wales central coast.  Angie Stuart organized a fabulous dinner for us on Monday night in Edgecliff, […]

Planet View: S31°44.170’ E152°47.483’ Street View: S31°44.170’ E152°47.483’    

Jenny Burnell sent me some of her great photos from a couple of dinners we had in Sydney when we were in town last month.  The first three were taken at a BBQ hosted by the Fishers, the rest are from a dinner that Angie hosted in Edgecliff before we started heading toward Byron Bay.  […]

Planet View: S34°51.798’ E138°28.728’ Street View: S34°51.798’ E138°28.728’ Back to Adelaide for a few days to attend wedding: I was asked to be best man for Sam Opperman, who was next to me at the altar in Fiji five years ago when Lisa and I were married.  We were lucky to have our visit coincide […]

From Barrington Tops National Park we stopped off in Gloucester for enough time for Lisa to make a few phone calls over Skype while I hunted for a local bakery (no luck…), before continuing eastward toward the coast.  We made a beeline for South West Rocks, a small peninsula between Nambucca and Kempsey on the […]

Planet View: S32°05.8809’ E151°06.8379’ Street View: S32°05.8809’ E151°06.8379’ Barrington Tops National Park is a World Heritage Listed collection of striking peaks, waterfalls and crystal clear rivers roughly 150 kilometers (93 miles) inland from the coastal town of Forester.  Jill Newby suggested we make a stop off at Barrington Tops on our way up the coast […]

Planet View: S32°44.645’ E151°06.005’ Street View: S32°44.645’ E151°06.005’ Leaving the warmth of the Newby’s home to venture back out into the rainy weather of the surrounding Sydney area took some extra enthusiasm.  We headed north through Sydney to reach the Hunter Valley wine region around midday.  Knowing that the Hunter Valley is best known for […]