gwilson7656Jan 26, 20212 min readMonday 11th March 2019 - FreycinetToday’s itinerary took us up the east coast of Tasmania and eventually to the Freycinet peninsular. The drive took us through the pretty...
gwilson7656Jan 26, 20215 min readSunday 10th March 2019 - Tasman Peninsula This morning we met our guide and the rest of our group straight after breakfast. There are 8 of us, plus our guide, Ludger. The day...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20213 min readSaturday 9th March 2019 - Melbourne to HobartIt was a very early start this morning, 5.25! We were slightly anxious about the pick up but had been assured by the travel agents, who...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20214 min readFriday 8th March 2019 - Melbourne It felt like there were lots of things to do and see here, yet we only had the one day. As is so often the case with us we decided to...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20212 min readThursday 7th March 2019 - Melbourne Our last day with Viv, and again she had it planned for us! First it was a visit to the MCG where she had booked a tour for us. For those...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20214 min readWednesday 6th March 2019 - Great Ocean Road day 2!We woke to quite a different day. These had been heavy rain in the night and strong winds. The winds were still strong and there were...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20212 min readTuesday 5th March 2019 - The Great Ocean RoadViv has kindly agreed to drive the Great Ocean Road for us. She asked for suggestions for what we would like to do and this was one of...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20213 min readMonday 4th March 2019 - Port Douglas to Melbourne, just!We were sorry in some ways to be leaving Port Douglas. The hotel had been really comfortable and the staff friendly and helpful, and it...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20213 min readSunday 3rd March 2019 - another lazy day!Well, perhaps not quite so lazy! We did manage to get out for a brief walk before breakfast to look at 4 mile beach which is just in...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20212 min readSaturday 2nd March 2019 - a lazy day!So lazy in fact that this will probably be the shortest blog yet! It needs to be remembered that our visit to this area was not only to...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20215 min readFriday 1st March 2019An even earlier start today as we had to be ready to board our boat out to the Great Barrier Reef by 8. We had blue skies when we got up...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20215 min readThursday 28th February 2019We were back to early starts again today as we were spending a day in and around the Daintree rain forest. We were picked up along with 6...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20212 min readWednesday 27th February 2019 - Port DouglasFirstly an apology that there are no photos today! We have just spent the day pottering around here, sorting out some trips for here and...
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20213 min readTuesday 26th February 2019 - to Port DouglasWe had just a few hours this morning before getting to the airport to go north, so decided that we would walk across the harbour bridge....
gwilson7656Jan 25, 20213 min read25th February 2019 - SydneyAfter the exertions of yesterday we had a leisurely start to the day. Basically we just couldn’t seem to get out of bed and consequently...
gwilson7656Jan 24, 20213 min read24th February 2019 - SydneyWe had a wonderful start to the day with a FaceTime call home to chat with David and Helen. We got Anna and Alex too which was a great...
gwilson7656Jan 23, 20211 min readSaturday 23rd February 2019 - to Christchurch and AustraliaThis is our last day here in New Zealand. We have talked about how we feel about moving on and there are mixed feelings. This is such a...
gwilson7656Jan 23, 20215 min readFriday 22nd February 2019 - Kaikoura, whales and more!Kaikoura as promised! Today started bright and sunny - there is a familiar theme here and I hope those reading this are not finding it...
gwilson7656Jan 23, 20212 min readThursday 21st February 2019 - to KaikouraOn we go again, this time to Kaikoura, a coastal town about 3 hours north of Christchurch and a centre for whale watching, and other...
gwilson7656Jan 23, 20213 min readWednesday 20th February 2019 - Christchurch A leisurely start to the day! And now moving on to the next bit of our tour. We decided that we did not want to rush around to try and...
