This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Broome was as far west as we would go on this trip, so it was time to start winging our way back to the east, flying over the Gibson Desert towards the Red Center of Australia and Uluru, the world’s largest monolith. Looking…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise We arrived in Broome just before sunset, and I have to say that the sunsets over the Indian Ocean are pretty special. We were booked into the Cable Beach Club Resort that, not surprisingly, sits on Cable Beach, a gorgeous stretch of white…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Today we made a stop in Kununurra, just inside Western Australia, coming from the Northern Territory. There is an amazing story here in what seems to be an arid and desolate desert region. What made all the difference was irrigation from the Ord…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise After spending some time in the outback, it was a bit of a culture shock arriving in Darwin, the capital city of the Northern Territory. Darwin has a completely different feel than the other Australian state capitals — it’s tropical and much more…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise From Katherine, we actually took a bus the short distance to Cooinda, the gateway to Kakadu National Park. Once again, we were pleased to see mostly Aboriginal people working in the hotels and tourist concessions. In fact, they managed the property where we…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise The next morning we were on our way to Katherine, Northern Territory. On the way, we visited a working outback cattle station named Longway to see first hand what is involved in running a property in the outback. The couple that ran the…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Our last trip in Australia was probably the most amazing — a 13 day “air cruise” around Australia’s outback. Essentially, this is 20 passengers flying around the outback in a Dash 7 which is a short take-off and landing aircraft that doesn’t need…
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As our time in Australia was coming to an end, we had yet to see one of the places on our bucket list — the Great Barrier Reef. Of course that covers over 1400 miles of territory, so we had to figure out where to go. After a little research, we decided on Hayman Island….
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One of the benefits of having clients all over Australia is that you can schedule little holidays around your work. This was the case when we visited South Australia to spend some time in Adelaide and then venture out into two of the three wonderful wine regions in the area (the Borossa Valley and the…
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