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Category: Australia 2018/19

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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Sunday 4th November – Along the Billabong and by the pool

November 4, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Another early start this morning as we have a cruise along the Billabong – which actually means a static body

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Saturday 3rd November – Kakadu National Park

November 3, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

A slightly early start today because we are on a full day Kakadu tour which the lodge run so after

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Friday 2nd November – To Kakadu National Park

November 2, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we are leaving Darwin so after breakfast we packed all our belongings back into the cases and set off

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Thursday 1st November – The city and the port

November 1, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today was all about the CBD or Central Business District and also the port which is just on the edge

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Wednesday 31st October – North Darwin

October 31, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

So having been in Australia for 3 weeks today we went and saw our first prison! We had originally planned

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Tuesday 30th October – To the Northern Territories

October 30, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

It is time for us to leave Queensland and head north. Our flight is not until 3pm but we have

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Monday 29th October – Revisiting the Reef

October 29, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we have a flight over the reef booked but it is from Cairns so we decided to pack a

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Sunday 28th October – The Daintree Rainforest

October 28, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had booked a trip to go to the Daintree Rainforest which is one of the few areas of

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Saturday 27th October – The rainforest three ways

October 27, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had a full day booked at the Skyrail rainforest which is more than 150 million years old and

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Friday 26th October – What can I say except wow

October 26, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

Today we had a whole day on the Great Barrier Reef and what a day it was. We were collected

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Thursday 25th October – Return to sea level

October 25, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

I can’t believe that we have only been on the ground in Australia for 2 weeks as we have already

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Wednesday 24th October – Rainforest, Waterfalls and how it all started.

October 25, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We woke up early but to be honest not as early as I expected considering we are in the middle

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Tuesday 23rd October – Tablelands and the rainforest

October 25, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We have another longish drive today so decided that we would have breakfast on route, after collecting the car from

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Monday 22nd October – Towards the mountains

October 22, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

After a great nights sleep where the bed didn’t move and a shower that you didn’t have to be a

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Sunday 21st October – back to dry land

October 21, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We all woke up early again today and went up on deck to see if we could see anything, breakfast

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Saturday 20th October – Cruising the Whitsundays

October 21, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We all woke up bright and early this morning and had breakfast on the deck looking for turtles in the

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Thursday 18th October – To Airlie Beach and the Great Barrier Reef

October 18, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

So the Rodeo last night was an experience I am not sure we will repeat in a hurry, basically the

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Wednesday 17th October – The Road To Rockhampton

October 17, 2018 Xanthe Australia 2018/19

We have the first of our long drives today so after breakfast we packed up the car and set off

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