Category Archive for 'Australia'

Wogarno Sheep Station, Australia: In The Outback

Posted in Australia on Jul 5th, 2007

Have you ever read The Thornbirds or perhaps seen the movie? Imagine a 152,000 acre sheep station in the middle of the Australian Outback. Built in the 1930’s (the original homestead having burnt down), corrugated tin roofs cover plywood-thin walls. 3,000 sheep (and what seems like a similar number of kangaroos) call this place home, [...]

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Karijini National Park, Australia: Gorges and More Gorges

Posted in Australia on Jul 1st, 2007

Mark’s health continued to improve slowly, so we made our way to Karijini National Park. Maintained by both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Australians, the park hosts sacred spiritual sites of the Aboriginal people. Crystal-clear pools of water at the bottom of gorges juxtapose dramatically with the endless, arid desert surrounding the park. After camping out under [...]

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Coral Bay, Australia: Driving on the left…

Posted in Australia on Jun 29th, 2007

A manta ray glides silently by in the turquoise-green water, flapping its arms as gently as a butterfly. A silver fish leaps out of the water, creating an arch in the sunlight. A few glass-bottom boats sail off in the distance. They are full of eager tourists in search of whale sharks and manta rays [...]

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Perth, Australia: We need a visa?

Posted in Australia on Jun 24th, 2007

“You need a visa to enter Australia. Where is your visa?”
We made it a total of 25 miles in our 39,000 journey before we encountered our first hiccup. With a row of our bookshelf already devoted to Lonely Planet travel books, we had decided to forego purchasing the book for Australia – after all, it’s [...]

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