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We enjoy travelling, anywhere, anytime, both overseas and in Australia.
Most of our travel in Australia we tow our caravan. I must admit, I'm an
Australia junkie. I never fail to be fascinated and am constantly in awe of the
natural beauty of the place. Particularly the well known places such as Kakadu
National Park, The Daintree rainforest, The Barrier reef islands, to say
nothing of the incredibly colourful geological formations such as the numerous
gorges and features such as The Devil's marbles and Ayers Rock in the outback, The
Twelve apostles just off the coast of Victoria. Unforgettable places far too
many to mention. It is a very good country for touring.
As soon as I enter a
rainforest, I
am always impressed by the majesty of the surroundings. Some of
the trees grow into massive giants and I must say
when I stand alongside them in the silence of the bush, I am in awe of
them. They show how puny are humans by comparison. There is
something sacrosanct about them, as if I am in a hallowed place, a
place which
has been consecrated, as in a church. Many have lived silently for
hundreds of
years while mere mortals have lived for such a brief life span,
trumpeting
their magnificent achievements in science and art and then they have
died and
been forgotten, and these soaring giants, which grow from microscopic
spores, often hardly visible, outlive humans by hundreds of years.
Raging bushfires generating incredible heat, destroy man-made towns
overnight but only scorches the bark of
these magnificent specimens. They have a majesty and I am humbled
by
respect for the natural world.
I
am also fascinated with how these huge trees are a virtual eco-system
city, being
the habitat of thousands of insects and dozens of species of life forms
from
mosses, fungi and lichens to crawlies and creepies and birds of all
shapes and sizes
and they also play host to a variety of species of creatures such as
tree
kangaroos, possums, gliders, koalas, goannas, spiders, snakes and other
animals. Then the
leaves fall creating leaf litter - a food source and habitat for a
broad range of species of insects which in turn become a food source
for more flora and fauna. Amazing!
One year
we travelled more than 17,000 Kms from our home in south east Queensland.
North to Port Douglas and a few visits to the Barrier reef islands.
South to the border between New South Wales and Victoria at Eden.
North east to Darwin, then west to Kununurra in West Australia. A major
fascinating outback trip
In another year we took a trip west to Lightning Ridge opal fields,then south
to Dubbo Western Plains Zoo, then East to the coast at Port Maquarie, then up
the coast to home at the Sunshine Coast. We also went up to the barrier
reef for a few weeks and a short trip to Rockhampton and the Capricorn coast.
In March '98, we took our daughters and their three sons to Disneyland. With a
few side trips around L. A. and a quick trip to Tijhuana
Also to Las Vegas then a visit to the Grand Canyon.
In 2000, we all went to Europe, touring Normandy and Paris, England, Wales,
Ireland and Italy
I'll write a bit about some of the fascinating places I have been in due
course.
Some of the more fascinating sights we have seen include Undara lava
tubes inNorth Queensland,
Niagara falls, we drove the Overseas Highway in Florida from Miami to
Key west,
we crossed through Check point Charlie and into east Berlin before the
wall was
destroyed, cliff divers in Acapulco diving 35 metres down the cliff
face,
Teotihuacan pyramids, Xochimilco floating gardens, the Acropolis and
Parthenon
in Athens, Roman coliseum and other buldings, A trip down the
Mississippi on an
original paddlewheel river boat, Foot tapping Bourbon Street in New
Orleans. Battlefields of
Culodden, A lone piper standing in the mist on the shores of Loch Ness,
Allied
landing beaches of France and the remnants of the landing pontoons, The
market
place in Rouen, where I read a wall plaque and slowly translated it
until with
horror, I realized that it said that I was actually standing on the
spot where
Joan of Arc was burned at the stake and her heart was cut out and
thrown in the
Seine. Bungle bungles, Ord river dam and Lake Argyle, aboriginal cave
paintings
in Kakadu and other places. I have climbed Ayers rock. Silver
mines in Taxco. "The british are coming" story renacting the ride
by Paul Revere to alert the militia in the battles of Lexington and
Concord and the Boston tea party etc in Boston. The statue of the
little mermaid on the rock in Copenhagen. And many more fascinating sights.
Some
of the places we have been.
Many of them we have visited on several occasions and many of them we have
driven around.
Andorra
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Cook Islands
Denmark
England
Fiji
France
Germany
Greece
Hawaii
Hong Kong
Indonesia
Ireland
Italy
Liechtenstein
Macao
Malaysia
Mexico
Moorea
Monaco
Netherlands
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Philippines
Scotland
Singapore
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Tahiti
Thailand
USA
Wales
In USA, we have toured the environs of Los Angeles, Las Vegas and the Grand Canyon;
San Francisco, Florida from Orlando to Key west.
Chicago: Boston. NewYork: New Orleans