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Bays and Boulders: Discovering Bowen’s Rugged Coastline
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10 Reasons To Stay in an Airbnb — and 6 Reasons Not To
Why do so many people — myself included — love staying in Airbnbs? There are
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Day Trips from Hobart: Tasmania’s Mount Field & Mount Wellington/kunanyi
Mount Field and kunanyi/Mount Wellington aren’t necessarily the tallest peaks in Tasmania — those all
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Deliciously Cold: Wild Swimming at Cradle Mountain
Very few people come to Cradle Mountain to swim — in fact, the weather conditions
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Furry Friends & Flowers of Cradle Mountain: A Nature Lover’s Paradise
Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park doesn’t just have incredible scenery and challenging hikes
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St. Helens & The Bay of Fires: A Perfect Tasmanian Escape
The Bay of Fires: Orange Rocks, Turquoise Waters, White Sand If you love nature’s contrasts,
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3 Short & Easy Freycinet Walks
The Freycinet Peninsula offers a stunning combination of bright teal water, vast sandy beaches, orange
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Day Trip from Hobart: A Scenic Loop Around the Top of the Tasman Peninsula
The Tasman Peninsula makes for a great day — or more — of exploring. Just
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Walking, Wildlife, and Wild Seas: Exploring Bruny Island
Discovering Bruny Island Bruny Island hangs off the southeast coast of Tasmania like an elongated
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Australia’s Oldest and Spikiest Bridges: A Tasmanian Surprise
Southeastern Tasmania has the honor of being home to both the oldest and the spikiest
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Great Ocean Road Highlights: Must-See Stops on an Australia Road Trip
The Great Ocean Road, which wiggles and squiggles along the southern coast of Australia just
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Melbourne Itinerary: Day 3 – Art at the NGV & the Royal Botanic Gardens
Three days in Melbourne can go by in a flash — there’s so much to
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Melbourne Itinerary: Day 2 – Gardens, Libraries, and Urban Architecture
Three days is the perfect amount of time to start getting to know Melbourne, Australia’s
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Melbourne Itinerary: Day 1 – Markets, Museums, and Street Art Scenes
Melbourne is amazing — there’s a reason that it seems to be many people’s favorite
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Walking to Magic Rock
There are many amazing sights along the Great Ocean Road, but it’s rare to have
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Cape Otway: The Most Significant Lighthouse in Australia
It’s not the tallest lighthouse in Australia (that’s Cape Wickham). It’s not the oldest (that’s
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Going to the River Styx
The westerns and south central sections of Tasmania offered us far more eerie and unexpected
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Cradle Mountain Wildlife
Platypus and Wombats and Wallabies, oh my! One of the most exciting features of Cradle
5 Ways to Explore Cradle Mountain: 3 Hikes & 2 Walks
Prescott and I have fallen in love with Cradle Mountain-Lake St. Clair National Park. This
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6 Things to Do in Launceston
The second-largest city in Tasmania, Launceston feels larger than its roughly 85,000 people. It’s spread
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Road Trip: The Great Eastern Drive to Launceston
You can drive from the east coast of Tasmania to Launceston (Tasmania’s second-largest city) in
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Wineglass Bay & Hazards Beach
A visit to Tasmania hardly seems complete without a visit to the iconic Wineglass Bay
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Dirt Roads & Waterfalls: The Fingal Valley
When we told a friendly Tassie stranger that we were going to Fingal, he furrowed
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The Tasmanian Midlands
The inland drive from Hobart to the sleepy town of Fingal takes you through the
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10 Reasons to Visit Hobart
If you’re contemplating a summertime visit to Hobart, here are 10 reasons to book your
A Merry Tassie Chrissie!
Merry Christmas from Tasmania (where any word that can be shortened, will be)! Hobart doesn’t
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Love or Hate? The Museum of Old & New Art
Prescott and I are in in Tasmania! Specifically, we are in Hobart, the island’s capital
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Naked in Bowen
You don’t have to be naked on the beaches of Bowen, Australia, but you can
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Flora & Fauna by the Beaches of Bowen
While I went to the Whitsundays in search of life in the ocean, I found
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Home of the Big Mango: Fun Things to Do and See in Bowen, Australia
I’ve spent the past two days in Bowen, Australia. When you come to town, you
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Out on the Great Barrier Reef
My first two snorkeling trips with Ocean Rafting took me to the Inner Reef, which is
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Snorkeling Adventure: Hook Island & Whitehaven
People come to the Whitsundays to sail, to dive, or just to sit on the
Arriving at Airlie Beach
I’ve traveled to the Whitsundays, an area in northeastern Australia, for my first trip to
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The Sunshine Coast
Brisbane sits smack in the middle of Australia’s eastern coast, and beaches spread out both
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The Hinterland of Queensland
In Queensland we stayed in a region called the Hinterland, an area up in the
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Wombat Pats
Every year the high school at the Singapore American School shuts down for one week
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Harbour Day
Almost all flights from New Zealand to Singapore make a stop somewhere in Australia, so
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The Very Highest Point in New Zealand
The highest mountain in New Zealand is the awkwardly-named Aoraki/Mt. Cook, which sits in the
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The Badlands of NZ’s South Island
Driving through New Zealand’s grazing landscape often feels like being in the western US —
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Rob Roy Glacier
In the many South Island hiking blogs I’ve skimmed, at least two cite the Rob
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Wandering Around Wanaka
Though we loved our breakfast at Joe’s Garage, where the wait staff was easygoing and
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Snow in Summer in New Zealand
After the Fellowship of the Ring lost Gandalf in the Mines of Moria, they rested
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Getting to Our Alpine Retreat
We’ve driven inland, coming up into the mountainous center of New Zealand’s South Island. The
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The Whitestone City
The town of Oamaru, population 14,000), lies along the South Island’s coast. We went there
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There’s Heat in Them Thar Hills
New Zealand has a unique — and somewhat precarious — geological position: it sits at
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All Along the Briny Deep
We’ve made the crossing from the North Island to the South, relinquishing our rental car
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The Most Remote Capital City in the World
When we ask people on the North Island what their favorite city in New Zealand
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That Southern California Feel
The city of Napier (population 54,000) feels like Southern California in miniature – while we
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NZ’s Oldest National Park
After a frustrating Airbnb experience — at 7:00pm, the host at the Forgotten World Motel,
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Hot Stuff
We spent a full day in and around Rotorua, the heart of geothermal activity in
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Around the Peninsula
For our first day of road tripping, we decided to go around the Coromandel Peninsula.
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Flying Objects: A Trip from SG to NZ
Prescott and I started our journey to New Zealand on Christmas Eve Day. So when
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Bush Walks and Vine Talks in Margaret River
Sunday was Prescott’s birthday! We started the day off with an amazing breakfast at Drift
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Along the Margaret River
Prescott and I are staying in Margaret River, a small town in southwestern Australia that
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Down Under: From Perth to Margaret River
Prescott and I are in Australia! We’ve come for the three-day weekend (it’s Hari Raya
Bays and Boulders: Discovering Bowen’s Rugged Coastline
Back in 2018, I set out on what I thought would be a casual five-kilometer...
10 Reasons To Stay in an Airbnb — and 6 Reasons Not To
Why do so many people — myself included — love staying in Airbnbs? There are...
Day Trips from Hobart: Tasmania’s Mount Field & Mount Wellington/kunanyi
Mount Field and kunanyi/Mount Wellington aren't necessarily the tallest peaks in Tasmania -- those all...
Deliciously Cold: Wild Swimming at Cradle Mountain
Very few people come to Cradle Mountain to swim — in fact, the weather conditions...
Furry Friends & Flowers of Cradle Mountain: A Nature Lover’s Paradise
Tasmania's Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park doesn't just have incredible scenery and challenging hikes...
St. Helens & The Bay of Fires: A Perfect Tasmanian Escape
The Bay of Fires: Orange Rocks, Turquoise Waters, White Sand If you love nature’s contrasts,...
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