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The Grand Pacific Drive – Sydney to Narooma

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Sunrise in Narooma

Welcome to the Grand Pacific Drive Lets face it, most travellers arrive in Sydney, drool over the harbour bridge and the opera house before heading on up north towards Byron Bay, the Whitsundays and the Great Barrier Reef. The Grand Pacific Drive doesn’t even come onto their radar. I say this with reasonable confidence as in 2008 I joined the legions of travellers adding my footprints to this well trodden path. Heading out on the Grand Pacific Drive With the way our flights, Christmas and car hire plans planned out we landed in Sydney on Jan 1st 2018 and we were flying out to Hobart on Jan 10th. So we had a grand total of 9 days, not a huge amount of time. Especially as one half wanted a couple of days in Sydney. We landed at 10:00am and by 10:45 we were in our bright blue Toyota corolla that we…

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Exploring Tasmania’s East Coast

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Bay of Fires

Welcome to Tasmania’s East Coast Mainland Australia’s east coast has been getting the plaudits for years now. With beautiful beaches and stunning scenery it has been on the list of many travellers. Myself included, back in 2008. However there is another east coast in Australia with a fraction of the visitors and some of the most beautiful scenery on the continent. Welcome to Tasmania’s East Coast. Where Starting from the dramatic cliffs of the Tasman Peninsula and snaking all the way to Mount William National Park, Tasmania’s east coast is one of the highlights of any trip to Australia’s ‘other island.’ This is not a definitive list of everything available on the east coast. We spent 6 days on Tasmania’s east coast and loved every second of it. Sadly we only had 2 weeks in Tasmania itself, if we had longer we would’ve gladly spent more time on this part…

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3 Unfortunate Badges of Honour to Collect in Australia

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Pulling some bluebottle tentacles from my T-shirt

Lets face it Australia has a fair few things that would make it onto anyones bucket list. These things are usually of the more fun, interesting, travel related variety. However there are a few items that whilst they are unlikely to be on many peoples bucket lists, they do give you a few great stories. 1) Get Stung By A Jellyfish Australia is full of critters that bite and sting, so receiving a “gift” from one of these is in essence a quintessential Australian experience, right? Quintessential, possibly, painful, definitely. We spent a few days around Batemans Bay, a beautiful coastal town 4 hours south of Sydney. With stunning beaches its not surprising that there are quite a few decent snorkelling spots. Late one afternoon we headed over to snorkel around the beautiful Guerrilla Bay. Around the rocks along the edges of the beach there was plenty of marine…

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