Adelaide’s got balls
- Aperture: f/16
- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/125 s
- Focal Length: 10mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
While wandering the streets of Adelaide during our first evening in this garden-filled, wine region gateway, we happened upon Urban Cow Studio, a quirky shop full of art and wares by local craftspeople. While perusing the hilarious T-shirts (printed with things like a cartoonish ghost saying, “I’m the ghost who played Patrick Swayze’s ghost in…
Riding the rails across the Outback
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- ISO: 200
- Shutter Speed: 1/60 s
- Focal Length: 14mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
If you’re interested in traveling at a painfully slow pace through barren landscape at great expense, then the Ghan is the train for you. We rode the rails from Alice Springs in the Outback to Adelaide in the south, a trip that would amount to a 2-hour flight but drags out to nearly 24 hours…
Camels, kangaroos, and contagious conjunctivits
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- ISO: 400
- Shutter Speed: 1/250 s
- Focal Length: 17mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
“That is one big rock!” Her exclaimed. We were seated in our rented Toyota RAV4, A/C blasting, in the sunset viewing parking lot several kilometers from the base of Uluru, the massive monolith in the Red Center of Oz. We decided to stop over here to see the “postcard view” before going to see the…
“I’m not sure you’re built for climbing Everest, darling”
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- ISO: 80
- Shutter Speed: 1/20 s
- Focal Length: 4.28mm
- Camera: iPhone 4S
- Location: 34° 55.3′ 0″ S 138° 36.47′ 0″ E
Warning: The following post describes some gross and decidedly un-ladylike behavior. Read at your own discretion. Throughout our relationship, I’ve frequently teased Him for possessing a weak immune system. If someone — anyone — at his office had a cold, he would invariably catch it. Somehow, I managed to escape unscathed almost every time, and…
Chasing wombats
- Aperture: f/20
- ISO: 200
- Shutter Speed: 1/60 s
- Focal Length: 10mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
When Him and I were in Nadi, Fiji, a remarkably witty hostel employee named Rico innocently instructed members of his kava circle to tell the group their favorite animal. Strumming on his guitar, Rico then began a sing-along in which each participant took a turn filling in the gaps of the song with two noises…
Fiji Budget Breakdown
So I’ve set up my spreadsheet a little better (still a work in progress) to help us keep track of where we are spending our money. Maybe this information is useful to someone out there who is planning a trip. The cost breakdown below is solely costs incurred while in Fiji and doesn’t cover any…
Sydney-side up
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- ISO: 200
- Shutter Speed: 1/1000 s
- Focal Length: 20mm
- Camera: Canon EOS 7D
I can’t imagine there are many major cities in which you’d spot someone lugging a surfboard down the sidewalk. In that respect — and many others — Sydney is unique. It’s a city of tunnels, many of them containing or leading to upscale shopping, and of water with a network of high-speed ferries available to…
Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest
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- 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
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- 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…