Dawn's Australian Adventure

It’s now well over three weeks since we returned back home to Worcester, in the UK. The first few days home were dreadful for me as I...

How big is the outback?! Having travelled through the night, I stupidly thought we would wake up in Adelaide but we were still in the...

Day 3 on The Ghan took us to Coober Pedy. Having watched Opal Hunters on UK TV for some years it was quite exciting to see opal mining...

Day Two on The Ghan, started with breakfast in the Dining Carriage, to be more precise the Queen Adelaide Restaurant carriage. Three...

Back in 2020, in the height of lockdown, we settled down to watch TV. The other half flicked through the plethora of available films,...

Thanks to everyone at home for sharing… Jane went to the Cairn Terrier Fun Day in Scotland and won Best In Show and best fancy dress!...

It was an early start and off to Cairns airport for our 6am flight to Darwin. The flight went well and we landed at 8am. There is a 30...

Our final day in Cairns was spent much the same as the previous day, ambling about, enjoying doing “not a lot at all” I have bottled...

Our penultimate day at Trinity Bay We took a tour around the The Australian Armour & Artillery Museum. The museum is privately owned and...

Thank you Trinity Bay, Cairns

We didn’t plan every day we were in Cairns as we wanted a relaxing holiday too. When collecting our hire car, we were advised about a...

The Great Barrier Reef I am not going to write much about today… We flew out to a fixed pontoon on a helicopter, just us and the pilot....

<p>Monday was a free day just to catch up with ourselves and relax. The other half is into motorbikes, Indian motorbikes to be more precise. He owns an Indian Springfield, this is her in the picture below. She truly is a thing of beauty. If our lounge at home was big enough she would take [&hellip;]</p>

I have received a lot of photos from home over the last week or so. I hope they make you smile (they certainly made me 😀😍❤ This one's...

After such a fabulous day at the Zoo, we were on a high and asked the guide to recommend a bar for a celebratory drink and evening meal....

Oh wow, wow and wow again!!! How can Australia keep delivering so much? At the end of Day 8 we arrived in Brisbane, The other half had...

After lunch we took a walk around the botanical gardens, which is situated just behind the quayside and wraps back around to the Opera...

When we were planning this trip we looked at booking to see a show or event at the Opera House but whilst we both enjoy the piano, we do...

We took some time just to stand and look at the bridge from the quay side and I will apologise now to everyone I now know or will ever...

Dreams do come true…