Tomorrow, I will start seeing THIS! The giant potato cods of Cod Hole in the northern Great Barrier Reef can reach 8 feet long and a whopping 240 pounds, and you can stand there as they brush right by you! It's one of the most well-known divi…
I hardly ever remember to review stuff on Trip Advisor [http://www.tripadvisor.com.au/members/ayapua#CITY_TILES]. I did tonight .. and was pretty excited when I saw my map of review contributions ... Look at all those pins!!! Then I saw I have only…
{<1>} "I am going to leave western Australia without ever seeing a big red back spider!" I holler to Henley, who is sipping tea on the veranda. Come out here, he says. Above us are SIX red backs – SIX poisonous big red back spiders…
I've been told that they are having a barbecue for me tonight at the hostel. And I've got an offer to walk me to the train station at the ungodly hour of 630am. Feeling pretty loved in a new place right now, with amazing people ...…
We are driving along the Golden Pipeline Heritage Trail in western Australia from outside Perth, where the water line starts, all the way to Kalgoorlie, where it went to meet the gold fields. Along the way, colonists tortured Aboriginals to get the…
This evening marks a lunar eclipse — seen by people all over the world, including 11,000 miles away in my hometown of Rochester, NY. It is the second of the tetrad – a series of four successive total lunar eclipses, with no partial lunar eclipses…
A die cast sculpture of a townsperson of Menzies, western Australia, looks out over Lake Ballard. 150 of these sculptures, of all types of Menzies residents, dot the dried-up lake. To me, in my state of mind, they all seemed to be looking forward,…
When I finally board the Prospector and push my backpack, tent and camera bag up into the overhead of the car, I will have been in Australia for 8 weeks and seen nothing except freaking Kalgoorlie. Haaa! I don't mind. I, in fact, will say, go…
Eating soup to soothe my sore throat. The Aussie comes up. "Feckin'. Krissy. Can you ..." holding up a pair of ripped camo shorts. hahahahhahahahaha and ha. "Tim. I can't sew those. You think I can sew because I'm a girl…
