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Now that we’ve got wheels (four wheels, that is), one of our first weekend adventures had to be Bell’s Beach. Steve was itching to go see the “real sea” again, so we took off for a proper coastal walk.
When we got to the parking lot, there was a paraglider flying around just above our heads. We watched [...]

Hello Barina! Our horizons have just expanded. We took our new-old little red wagon for a spin through green farms and over to the beach today for our first weekend adventure. Hopefully there’ll be many more to come (and many more pictures)!

After a year in Victoria, we finally made it out of the state and down to Hobart, Tasmania for a long weekend. Keith, Louisa, and Adelaide were over from England and kindly gave us the grand tour. From a drive to the top of Mt. Wellington (and awesome views of a rainbow over TAS) to [...]

Time to solar charge…

It may not be barbecue weather here, but we found the most American diner in town celebrating in style. They were going all out with balloons and flags and the whole staff of teenagers in costume (including Wonder Woman). We slid into a booth for our milkshakes and burgers with yellow mustard and pickles and [...]

Thanks to Lizzy’s official birthday we had a long weekend and decided to go see a little bit of Australia while we could. We’ve been wanting to get over to the Grampians mountain range and national park for a while, so we rented a car (which turned out to be the lovely color of a [...]

You’ve probably heard about all the crazy weather happening all over Australia this summer. The latest is of course Cyclone Yasi, and while it hit in the north of the country, it has pushed some pretty extreme weather down to Melbourne. After an unbelievably humid and tropical afternoon, I just watched SERIOUS storm clouds roll [...]

We went for a picnic in the Botanical Gardens one evening between Christmas and New Year’s Eve and Steve asked me. Obviously, I said yes. :)

As mentioned in the previous post, one of the Australia Day festivities was a massive convention of classic cars in the park. I’ve never seen so many old cars in such good condition and all in one place. It made the Saturday morning car group look puny. We took a gazillion photos, so we’ll post [...]

It’s Australia Day! And, that means obligatory barbeques. After checking out the air show and massive classic car convention held down the street, we met up with some friends in the park for our first Aussie BBQ.
The park was packed with groups making use of the public barbeques and enjoying the outdoor lifestyle. We managed [...]