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Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 50
- Shutter Speed: 1/2404 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
Our second “adventure” from Cairns was an overnight trip to Cape Tribulation located about an hour and a half north of Cairns. We booked, again through our hostel, with a company called Active Tropics Explorer, a.k.a. Foaming Fury (they apparently also run white water rafting trips). The trip promised us a guided bus ride to…
The Great Barrier Reef
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 160
- Shutter Speed: 1/8000 s
- Focal Length: 1.85mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
This was the opportunity I had been waiting for since the summer of 2011 when I got scuba certified in Jupiter. I was going to be on a boat directly above the Great Barrier Reef and all I would have to do is strap on an air tank and mask to dive down and see…
Welcome to Oz
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 50
- Shutter Speed: 1/1314 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
November 20, 2012 was a very busy travel day for us. We got up early to catch a 9AM flight from Nadi, Fiji to Sydney Australia. We shared a cab to airport from our hostel, Bamboo Backpackers, with a college-aged girl from Canada. She was in the middle of a multi-year trip in which she…
Nadi (pronounced Nandi)
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 50
- Shutter Speed: 1/3247 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
Nadi is mainly a transit town. It’s the main travel hub for the country as almost all international flights land in Nadi. We experienced the town in a similar way as we just had an afternoon there before our early flight the next morning. We arrived after a 4 hour bus ride from Suva (an…
Fiji: Day 2
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 64
- Shutter Speed: 1/120 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
After a very tiring and sweaty first day in Fiji, we decided to kick it up a notch and see some sights. The first thing we did, after our morning coffee, was to walk from our hotel to the Kula Eco Park. The entrance to the park is situated almost directly across the Queen’s…
Ah, Venice (Beach)
Her and I have a kind of long (7 hour) layover in LAX, and decided to catch a cab to see some of Los Angeles and grab some dinner (late lunch on California time). We intended to go to Santa Monica, but let the very friendly cabbie (Daniel Solomon Klein) talk us into going to…
Taking Off
So we’re finally leaving. As we sit in the terminal at PBI airport, I find myself running through a last minute worry list: Did I set the AC to 80? Did I turn off the water heater? Did I remember to shut off the coffee machine?!? But I think these worries will pass once we’re…
The start of semi-retirement
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 50
- Shutter Speed: 1/239 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
Wednesday was our last day of work – at least for a while. We have started calling our current situation “semi-retirement,” which is fitting considering how my last day of work felt. During the exit interview with the woman from HR, my answers to her questions were more like those of someone leaving the workforce…
A new toy
- Aperture: f/2.4
- ISO: 800
- Shutter Speed: 1/15 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
A couple of weeks ago I took the advice of my guitar teacher and made a purchase to take with me on our journey: The Martin Backpacker. I know that our goal is to travel light and minimize the unnecessary items in our packs, but I’ve made a very large investment in my guitar playing…
Ensuring we’re insured
This week I made another step in the process towards our escape from reality and purchased travel insurance that covers medical emergencies while we’re abroad. When I was a twenty-something rebel, travel medical insurance wouldn’t have really been a major concern. I would have been too focused on how to have the most fun. But…
