Tag: fun
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Cross-Australia Road Trip Part 1: South West Rocks to the Great Ocean Road
We’re finally on the road! After months of planning and a relaxing month in South West Rocks, New South Wales, we departed for our road trip to Perth on December 30th. Getting ready for our big drive not only took a lot of trip planning but logistical planning as well. We had to figure out…
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Melbourne Bites and Sights
Hello again and happy holidays! For the last month, we have been living in a small beach town called South West Rocks, in the state of New South Wales. I will speak more to our lives here for the last month in my next post, but earlier in December, we took a small quick trip-within-a-trip…
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Far North Queensland: Cairns, Port Douglas, and the Great Barrier Reef
At the end of November, we had a fantastic visit up to Cairns and Port Douglas in Far North Queensland to end off George’s mom’s visit to Australia from England. As mentioned in my post about our time on the Gold Coast, George’s mom had the honour of being our first visitor during our year…
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36 Hours in Sydney
During our time on the Gold Coast, we wanted to take advantage of cheap flights and the time we had available to visit Sydney for a weekend, so we made it happen shortly after we moved into our place in Robina. We were lucky to find a great flight from our local Gold Coast airport,…
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Life on the Gold Coast
After completing our surf camp in Byron Bay, we settled into a loft apartment in the suburb of Robina, situated on the Gold Coast, Queensland. The decision to move arose as we realized, while residing in Brisbane, that most weekends were spent escaping the city for the coast, contending with busy weekend traffic. Despite the…
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Central Queensland Road Trip Part 3: The Whitsunday Islands, Yeppoon, and Agnes Water, plus a surf trip to Byron Bay
The final leg of the Central Queensland road trip brought us to the Whitsunday region before breaking up the long drive heading back down the coast to Brisbane. After leaving Cape Hillsborough, where we enjoyed our second morning of kangaroo and wallaby viewing on the beach, we made a stop in the town of Seaforth.…
Where the Paved Road Ends 