Australia 2023

We’re home, safe and sound. Return trip went like clockwork.  See you next time! Jon and Judy

As great as the chorus performance was last night, today’s city tour was a bust. We rode around town in

I don’t know where to begin. Last Spring, when we planned this trip, we wanted to include the Sydney Opera

Well, we’ve done Melbourne. On to Sydney That’s the problem with these tours: fly one day, tour the next and

I made a friend today. Her name is Oshaiya. Our acquaintance started in the hotel swimming pool. She was swimming

A slower day today, moving from Uluru to Alice Springs. Viking chartered a private flight with Airnorth. There are fifty-odd

Today was dedicated to the two “rocks” – Uluru and Kata Tjuṯa – literally from dawn until dark. Uluru gets

The captain of the Orion was correct. Getting up to see our entrance into Sydney Harbor was worth it, especially

Newcastle was, and still is, a coal town. Coal was used by aboriginal people for thousands of years. Soldiers taking

XToday, our last day on the Orion, we toured a coal and surfing town, a wannabe tourist town, called Newcastle.

Can you imagine traveling around the world to see a Komodo Dragon and then zipping out, not seeing a single

When we travel to a distant place, viewing native flora and fauna is always a checkbox item. For Australia, we’ve