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Tuesday 4th December – To Lake St Clair via Queenstown

December 4, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

It wasn’t actually raining this morning and the forecast is for it to get warmer as the week progresses so

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Monday 3rd December – Waterfalls and Trains in the rain.

December 3, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

In the night it had been absolutely chucking it down and unfortunately as we went to breakfast it was still

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Sunday 2nd December – Gordon River UNESCO site

December 2, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We had booked on a Gordon River cruise today so had an early breakfast before walking round to the boat.

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Saturday 1st December – A couple of uses for water- rail, hydro and falls

December 1, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Unfortunately today we had to leave Cradle Mountain I have really enjoyed our time here but we have exhausted the

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Friday 30th November – Dove Canyon walk

November 30, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we decided to do the other long walk this time through the canyon which promised waterfalls and a walk

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Thursday 29th November – Another Year Older!

November 29, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

What a great way to spend your birthday. Woken up with a cup of coffee and loads of cards /

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Wednesday 28th November – Into Tassie as the Aussies call it!

November 28, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

The Ferry docked at 6am this morning so we set the alarm for stupid o’clock (or 5.30 as it is

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Tuesday 27 November – A farewell to Melbourne and journey to Tasmania

November 27, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We are leaving Melbourne today but not until this evening so before we go we have one final walk to

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Monday 26th November – Around Melbourne part 2

November 26, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We had another couple of walks to do today, the first was around the Arcades and Lanes of Melbourne. The

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Sunday 25th November – Around Melbourne part 1

November 25, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

After breakfast this morning we have a couple of walks around Melbourne planned, but first we decided to visit Tourist

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Saturday 24th November – Great Ocean Road Part 2

November 24, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we are heading for Melbourne and will complete our journey along the great ocean road but before any of

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Friday 23rd November – Sovereign Hill

November 23, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Unfortunately the rain that arrived last night seems to be here for the day so we decided that rather than

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Thursday 22 November – Around the Waterfalls

November 22, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

After last nights rain we decided that today would be a good day to go and explore some waterfalls, despite

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Wednesday 21 November – The Real Great Ocean Road Part 1

November 21, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

So despite thinking we were on the ocean road yesterday it turns out we were actually on the Southern Ocean

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Tuesday 20th November – The Southern Ocean Drive

November 20, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

The rain that has been forecast arrived last night and as we were staying in a historic building with a

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Monday 19th November – By the seaside at Robe

November 19, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

It was a little overcast this morning but still warm so we set off to tourist information to pick up

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Sunday – The start of our journey along the Great Ocean Road

November 18, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

After a few weeks in the desert and a couple of great days in Adelaide it was time to hit

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Saturday 17th November – Gaols and migration

November 17, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we planned to visit a couple of museum’s then do a walk, the first museum was Adelaide Gaol which

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Friday 16th November – Around Adelaide

November 16, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We had a nice relaxed start to the day today as for the first time in what seems like a

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Thursday 15th November – New town New territory

November 15, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Our flight from Ayers Rock was scheduled to depart at 9.10 so we loaded up the car and checked out

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Wednesday 14th November – Uluru

November 14, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19 4 comments

Obviously I spoke too soon about all things electronic yesterday as by the time we had a shower the internet

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Tuesday 13th November – To the true red Centre

November 14, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we set off for Uluru or Ayers Rock as it used to be called. We packed up and went

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Monday 12th November – The Canyon rim

November 12, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

The alarm went off at stupid o’clock this morning so we can get to the start of the walk early.

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Sunday 11th November – To Kings Canyon – No phone and limited wifi!

November 11, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Both the local travel agent and sat nav suggest that today will be a drive of almost seven hours so

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Saturday 10th November – The start of Alice and Education

November 10, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We had arranged to pick up the car a day early both so that we can make an early start

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Friday 9th November – Alice Springs and my new pets!

November 9, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we have a day around Alice scheduled which started with us walking to Visitor information to get a better

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Thursday 8th November – To the Red centre

November 8, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

It is a day of traveling today as we are heading to Alice Springs, rather than driving the 1600km from

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Wednesday 7th November – The gorges from a different angle

November 7, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had booked a helicopter flight over the 13 gorges which at this time of year is the only

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Tuesday 6th November – Nitmiluk Two Gorges

November 6, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had a cruise through two of the 13 gorges in Nitmiluk scheduled, basically we had hoped to do

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Monday 5th November – Happy Anniversary

November 5, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19 One comment

We have a long drive today so it is a slightly different way to spend our anniversary but it was

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