Given that we had purchased a car, and hadn’t put a lot of miles (oops, kilometers!) on it, we decided to visit another of Australia’s wine regions — the Hunter Valley. This is one of Australia’s oldest wine producing regions, getting its irrigation from the Hunter River which traverses this very long valley area (over…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise Today, we started flying back to Sydney, the last leg on our air cruise. It was going to be a long flying day, but we made a stop in Birdsville, a tiny town on the edge of the Simpson Desert, near the borders…
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This is part of a series called The Great Australian Air Cruise After a short flight, we landed in Alice Springs — almost the geographic center of Australia. Of course, I was a bit shocked as we were making our approach to hear the pilot say, “and off on our right is the super secret…
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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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