Below are videos of our adventures. There is a soundtrack so turn on volume. Hawaii Australia New Zealand’s North Island New Zealand’s South Island
Australia
Places We Have Been
We’re almost done gearing up in Auckland for our one-month car tour around New Zealand’s North Island. See a reminder of the kind of beauty we’ve already seen so far at https://hopperguy.com/PhotosandFilms/?p=159. Hover your cursor over a photo to get a description: date, place, and subject. Click on one...
Animal Friends We Met So Far
We’re back in Auckland, a town we visited before, so we may not post a lot of sightseeing photos. But no worries! Look back with us at the wildlife we saw in the first part of our journey. (You have to open the post first by clicking “Continue Reading.”)...
The End of Australia
Well, we’re back in Sydney. Since I last posted, we finally saw some whales. Video is shaky, brief, and in slow motion, but it’s whales. We also saw wallabies—on suburban homes’ lawns! But also at a beach called Potato Point. We saw more beautiful beaches and landscapes. And we...
Coast to Coast, sort of
Forgive the long entry. We left Tasmania and went to Melbourne, where the first day after arriving we went to see the penguin parade at Philip Island. No photos allowed (thus the black square at top), but I got a shot of a couple at “The Nobbies,” a group...
Ta Ta Tasmania
Moving fast as always. After Day 1 with animals in the pastoral hills near Hobart and Day 2 along beaches on the east side of the island, Day 3 we went to the mountains inland (Mount Field), and Day 4 we went to Bruny Island off the main island...
Tasmania, You Devil
Tasmania has bewitched us with its animals and landscapes Please enjoy the videos below to understand why I am writing so little today–there is so much beauty to see outside! Warning: may be inappropriate for viewers too sensitive to cuteness.
Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (The Olgas)
We toured Uluru at sunset and Kata Tjuta at sunrise. Pictures are at the bottom of this post. We learned a lot by stopping first at the culture center for the Aṉangu (Anna-NU), the traditional “owners” (inhabitants). They looked after the land. They had practiced patch burning for years,...
The Red Centre
We’re at Uluru (formerly Ayers Rock). I’m posting now because we have an afternoon trip of Uluru today and a morning trip of nearby Kata Tjuta tomorrow. Australians call Uluru “The Red Centre” because the soil here is red and it’s in the middle of the country (sort of)....
Greetings from the future . . . and the past.
Well, it’s tomorrow here to my American friends. The U.S. is so yesterday on this side of the International Date Line. We had a fabulous day in Sydney yesterday, largely courtesy of Kevin ‘s college chum Dana and her husband Keith. We saw the Sydney Opera House Saw...
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