Traveling with Ray Owens
Travel until the wheels fall off!
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Day 15 January 28, 2025 After my accidently set alarm woke us up at 6:00 I went back to sleep (Penny did not). Woke up at 7:00 and prepared for this day at sea. We are heading for Tasmania to visit Hobart. We ate breakfast in the world cafe. I arrived first and found a…
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Today we are in Melbourne, Australia which is the site of our red folder disappearing act. We had hoped that the lost property folks would have possession of said folder by this date. But contacting the gentle folks in the lost property office proved impossible. I called several times today and each time the phone…
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Australia Day “marks the 1788 landing of the first fleet and raising of the Union Flag of Great Britain by Arthur Phillip at Sydney Cove, a small bay on the southern shore of Sydney Harbor. In the present, the government and Australia Day Council organizes events that seek to recognize the contributions of Australians to…
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Today we traveled to the Blue Mountain National Park to see the mountains which are blue. Why, you may ask are the blue? Well it seems that a majority of the trees in the forest are Eucalyptus trees and further the Eucalyptus trees leaves secrete eucalyptus oil (duhh). The moisture and oil combine and create…
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Day 11 January 24, 2025 Our last day under the gentle and funny care of Dan the leader of the Koala’s. He has been ever so helpful and knowledgeable. We woke up in Sydney this morning and after we saw that our luggage was down from our room, Dan took us on a walking tour…
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Today was a major contrast between the heat of the Outback small town of Uluru and the indigenous community and the cool breeze of Sydney and a dinner cruise in the Sydney harbor. The flight took us over much of the heart of Australia. It is truly a giant Country and it is basically barren.…
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Another early morning. We were off at 5:15 to experience the sunrise at a different spot than we experienced the sunset. This was necessary because the sunsets in the west and rises in the east. This is true even though we are in the southern hemisphere in order to see the effect of the setting…
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Day 8 January 21, 2025 As promised we started the day quite early. We met downstairs at 5:45. The luggage ferries had taken the bags from the hall to the lobby. They provided continental breakfast. It occurs to me that no one ever specifies which continent is being referenced when describing said breakfast. Since Australia…
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Day 7 January 20, 2025 Today we got a bit of a later start. That did not mean we slept later, just that we went down to breakfast later. Today’s adventure included a trip to Daintree rainforest. Daintree is the world’s oldest rainforest. It is somewhere in the neighborhood of 180 million years of age.…
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Day 6 Sunday January 19 The great snorkeling adventure is now upon us. We have questions: Will Penny and I back out of the adventure? Will we be able to wriggle into to the wet suit light that prevents being stung by the tiny little jellyfish floating in the water? Will the excursion personnel take…
Traveling with Ray Owens 