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Entries Tagged as 'Australia'

Who wants a Roo? (aka our trip to the Lone Pine Sanctuary)

November 29th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Australia, Famous Firsts, First Mates, Fun Stuff, shoe-cruising, Shore Excursions, The End

Last week, we took a trip to the Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary just outside of Brisbane. Along with Koalas, the LPS has a variety of other animals, reptiles and birds that are native to Australia. I was super excited to go because their website promised 1) you could hold a koala; 2) you could feed […]

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Scenes from Brisbane

November 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Australia, Beautiful, shoe-cruising

**Note – all the really great evening/night pictures were taken by JON! Can you see why we are loving it here?!?!?!? 🙂

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Let’s say GRACE – over and over and over

November 25th, 2010 · No Comments · Australia, Cheers!!, Fellow Cruisers, Life on the Boat, Random Thoughts, Shore Excursions, Somebody likes us, The End

Happy Thanksgiving everybody!!  We had a great turkey day the Aussie way, throwin’ some brats on the barbie with the only other US boat we knew in the area.  It was such an enjoyable time.  I felt really happy that we could still celebrate the holiday with a nice day with friends and throwing the […]

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The good, the bad & the ugly are all, well, GOOD.

November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Australia, Introspection, Life Lessons, Life on the Boat, Loss of a Parent, The End, Thoughts on Family

Now that we are comfortably ensconced in civilization again and able to be off the boat and in movie theaters or cafes or restaurants at a moment’s notice, and have regular internet, and no longer have to worry about the anchor dragging or sails ripping or rigging breaking or being constantly tossed around at sea, […]

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random things I was thinking about while sitting in the quarterberth listening to it rain until I realized that the lazarette was open and I had to run out in my pj’s to close it and got totally soaked

November 23rd, 2010 · No Comments · Australia, Life on the Boat, Random Thoughts, The End

* starting a new blog about our “normal” life * celebrating Hanukkah (even though I’m not Jewish) * how I should never eat fish & chips again (even though they are so so so so so good, they are so so so so bad for my waistline!) * how excited I am about my new, […]

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Dear Brisbane, will you marry me?

November 12th, 2010 · No Comments · Australia, Beautiful, First Mates, shoe-cruising

After just one day of a LOT of walking around, I am SO SO SO SO SO in love with Brisbane!!!  I’ve never responded to a city this way before, not even Paris, and I am a wee bit jealous that Jon will have so much more time to get to know this place.  Despite […]

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The end of the line.

November 11th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Australia, Cheers!!, Famous Firsts, First Mates, Our Route, Passages, The End

Brisbane. We’re here. I can’t believe it. The ultimate destination we talked about for so long. We certainly took the long way around. But, we made it. Australia.

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