Two months ago, we set off on a few weeks adventure in Australia. After time in Melbourne with family and friends, we ventured into the Northern Territory's Australian Outback for a few days full of mineral-rich red dirt, countless open expanses and Aboriginal heritage embedded in astounding rock formations. Tracing the footsteps of Jiles, Goss...

Melbourne is my second home. After marrying an Aussie who grew up in the suburbs of this special city, we've spent under a year living in the CBD and have had countless visits since. The city of sport, cafes and coffee culture thrives in the southeastern portion of Australia. Home to the Australian Open and...

Melbourne , Australia has become my second home. Known for its café culture, four seasons in a day and city of all things sport, this special place has a lot to offer. In the city, there’s the hubbub of business, culture, life, eateries, endless laneways and riverfront activities. Just a short tram ride away gets...

There’s nothing in the red center of Australia. If by nothing you mean echos of endless wide spaces and wide sky that holds the world together like an eternal ribbon of Australian blue around a package of rainbow colours that can only be unwrapped slowly. Beneath the thin veneer of “nothing” are layers of something...

A couple of weekends ago we saw the most amazing thing: 12 Southern Right Whales Six mother and calf pairs lounged about on the surface of the water, seeming basking in the late winter sun. Their great puffs of breath sending salt spray high into the air. The babies lolling about and splashing in the...

(Sydney - Harbor Bridge) Cost/day: $75-250 (depending on lodging and meals) Hello and g-day from down under! How are you going? That last bit, “how are you going” always trips me up - I never know whether to answer to “how are you doing” or “where are you going”. I’ve been living in Sydney since...

Cost/day: $50 Excludes diving trip costs which vary considerably. What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? It wasn't what I was expecting when I signed up for a 2 night 3 day introductory diving trip to the Great Barrier Reef. The winds were gusting, the rains driving and half of our passengers had fled the...

Cost: $37 a day This isn't a true reflection of expenses in Perth as I have been staying and eating with relatives. A large chunk of my costs are beer related and I am not a heavy drinker so expect to pay two to three times this much if you aren't couch surfing and eating...

Cost/day: $40 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? Still a bit jet lagged from the flight into Sydney, I awoke to the sounds of a giant dragon fly bouncing off the window as it sought freedom from my sparsely furnished single room cottage house that I was couch surfing. I opened the door and...

I happened to be killing time in the Cairns airport flipping through the bookstore when I came across the travel memoir of "catching love, fish and wisdom": Robyn Catchlove's "Somewhere Down a Crazy River." I then promptly forgot about it until I received a notice from the publisher, and I gave it a read. It's...

After my previous post about grey nomads here in Australia, you might be inspired to travel by caravan...only you're not grey. You might be nomadic, though. In which case, perhaps you might want to investigate the following: small campervans made out of DIThemselves converted minivans. These wee inclusive vehicles include a queensize foldout mattress, fridge,...

Do you yearn for the red desert of the isolated Australian outback? Want a weird experience that might lead you to a promising career choice? Consider delivering the mail (for a day) on a 550 km (that's 342 miles, for Americans) round trip leaving from Broken Hill, NSW , a town familiar to anyone who's...