So our long-awaited plan to do the “big lap” of Australia got condensed into a smaller lap within South Australia. But amid the anxiety and uncertainty about the future, we…
Wildlife Carers on Kangaroo Island, and Reasons to be Hopeful! Kangaroo Island was meant to be welcoming tourists back right now, to boost local businesses in the wake of the…
Our first stop in Tasmania has been Bruny Island, which is just a fifteen minute ferry ride from the mainland of the east coast. Bruny is home to an unusually…
As we drove into in Wilson’s Promontory, the ancient rolling hills of eucalypt forest took our breath away. Massive round boulders, that have been smoothed by millennia of weather, are…
This week has been a mixture of emotions. Shock and horror at the devastation of the Australian bushfires, combined with the joy of meeting wonderful, kind, and inspiring people. One…
Day 1-2. We are finally on our way!! After talking about this for the last 4 years, we have jettisoned (most of) our non-essential possessions and set off on a…