Thoughts from working and travelling outside the USA
Our big trip was to Albany and I flew to the Ningaloo Reef on my own (which were separate posts) – but we did have a couple of short over night and day trips which were focused on finding good places to snorkel. Snorkeling this far from the equator with colder water has much less... Continue Reading →
We tried to get to the beach at least once a week – either during the week for sunset or on the weekend. The “city” beaches stretch from North Beach 15 miles south to Leighton Beach – think of it as a nicer version of north San Diego. For me on a bike – about... Continue Reading →
We only spent 3 months in Perth but it is very underrated as a city. While eeryone on the east coast of Australia looks at Perth as backwards – Perth is pretty much the opposite. Because of the mining wealth, Perth has much more to offer than a typical city of 2 million people as... Continue Reading →
In Australia, most people consider the Ningaloo Reef comparable to the Great Barrier Reef - I’d never heard of it. It is in the northwest corner of Australia- a 13 hour drive north of Perth. We heard about Ningaloo when we visited Perth last November- essentially snorkeling/diving OK in Perth but it is great at... Continue Reading →
We made two trips - one on holiday and one while we were living in Perth November 2024 Every guide, says to go to Rottness Island, and the guides are right. It is a park with little development and the primary transport is bike or hop on/hop off bus. We took a ferry and rented... Continue Reading →
In our short time in Perth, we will only have one holiday weekend with both Sharon and I in town and we wanted to visit some of the coast on the Great Southern Ocean – the “best” beaches on the Great Southern Ocean at about 7 hours from Perth at Esperance, so we plotted out... Continue Reading →
After a long layover in Melbourne for the Australia Open, we finally arrived in Perth in late January. Perth is booming as it is the center of mining in Australia and the growth in lithium and other rare earth minerals and has a housing shortage. We struggled to find temporary accommodation with very few AirBNBs... Continue Reading →
The Margaret River region is pretty large – we only visited the top half which included the furthersmost western point in Australia, the wine region, and Busselton (summer beach town). When we were on the west coast, it is the furthest I have ever been from Washington DC (or Oklahoma) and literally almost halfway around... Continue Reading →
After moving to Perth, we had many more day trips which are covered in Week 587 posts. In Melbourne, there are holidays for sporting events and on the first Tuesday in November it is Cup Day. It is like if the Kentucky Derby was on a Tuesday, and everyone in America had a public holiday,... Continue Reading →