Blog posts from Australia

After our great time in Sydney, we arrived in Melbourne with similar expectations, because Melbourne is almost the size of Sydney, is also located at the seaside, and has a similar climate. But our four days in Melbourne were very much different from Sydney. Even though Melbourne has a nice and clean downtown, excellent food, […]

After a few days of city life in Sydney, we took an early morning flight to Melbourne, rented a car and drove along the famous Great Ocean Road for a bit more than two days before returning to Melbourne. The first day when driving down from Torquay towards Cape Otway we passed through numerous small […]

After our diving adventure at the Great Barrier Reef and tropical conditions in Cairns, we continued our trip in Sydney where the climate was much more pleasant, especially because now it was spring. Ilinca and I liked Sydney a lot. It’s hard to name one factor why we liked it so much, I guess it […]

After a rather disappointing visit to Cairns two weeks ago due to the miserable weather, Ilinca and I decided to give Cairns a second chance and to finally make it to the Great Barrier Reef. And because the best way to see the reef is from underwater, we both enrolled to a 4-day diving course, […]

Fraser Island is the world’s largest island made of sand and is located in between the Pacific Ocean and Hervey Bay. Its length is around 120 km and the width up to 15 km. While at the beaches the sand is visible everywhere, the center of the island is covered with dense forest, numerous natural […]

Hervey Bay is famous for its whale watching cruises and because mothers with their calves have a protected environment in the bay and often rest there for a few days on their migration north or south (depending on the season). As the migration season ends end of October, Ilinca and I managed to basically book […]

After a beautiful stay at Byron Bay we moved up north along the coast up to spend three relaxing days in Noosa, another nice place with beautiful beaches and a National Park with koalas to be spotted. In addition, Noosa River ends here and the mix of saltwater and freshwater creates a very diverse flora […]

After three days of city in Brisbane, we headed south to Byron Bay with its wonderful beaches. It is the first time since my departure from Switzerland where I actually went swimming in the ocean because at the latitude of Byron Bay, the risk of crocodiles and jellyfish us much lower than in the tropics. […]

Our escape from the bad weather in Cairns led us to Brisbane, our first major city in Australia with a population of more than 2 million. We visited the city center, tried many good restaurants, visited museums, and last but not least had a great time with our Airbnb hosts Barry and Susi during our […]

Cairns is a small city in the north east of Australia and is famous for its access to the Great Barrier Reef as well as the beautiful beaches and forests. All things that require good weather for visiting. But Cairns showed us its rainy side, and after three days of bad weather and a forecast […]

After Litchfield, Kakadu National Park was the second park one on our visit list close to Darwin. After another 300 km of driving we reached the visitor center of the national park at around noon. About Kakadu National Park The lands on which the National Park lies has been the home of the indigenous people […]

A one hour drive away from Darwin is Litchfield National Park that is famous for its waterfalls and, in the tropical heat most importantly, many natural freshwater pools that invite for a swim under the waterfalls. Climate at Litchfield National Park We planned our visit to the Northern Territory in October so we would not […]

We did not perform to much planning upfront when we decided that we will enter Australia in Darwin, it was simply the shortest destination from Southeast Asia and we knew that after October the weather in Australia’s Northern Territory will get wet along the coasts. The plan was to stay a few days in the […]