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April 4, 2013 | in Australia & New Zealand, Travel

The Fruit of the Rainforest

cape trib exotic fruit farm australia

Our trip to Australia predated my understanding that “Rainforest” doth not equal “Willy Wonka’s Wonderland of Animals.”  While the rainforest may indeed be jam-packed with wildlife, thou shalt not see any.  That’s so consistently the case across the continents that if I had a Ten Commandments of Adventure Travel, that would make it onto the […]

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October 16, 2012 | in Australia & New Zealand, Travel

Kangaroo Island… Minus the Kangaroos

Island Pure Sheep Dairy

When I began planning a trip to Australia, a whole list of Must See’s immediately made it onto the list: Sydney, The Great Barrier Reef, Uluru…  It was a few days into Hardcore Planning Mode before I’d even heard of this place mythically dubbed Kangaroo Island.  I pictured kangaroos as far as the eye could […]

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July 31, 2012 | in Australia & New Zealand, Travel

Under the Southern Cross

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Day #10,338… (and kinda 39): The Outback.  We could see it as we descended from our jostley flight across Australia: a huge expanse of brick-red peppered with silvery explosions of desert shrubs. Feeling like Adventurers in the truest sense of the word- due in no small part to surviving the flight… I always feel a […]

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