So keeping up with writing the blog proved a little more difficult than expected. In the past few months since the last entry, we have traveled back and forth across Australia, flown to Thailand, and finally returned home to Canada.
We flew to Bangkok from Perth, with a stopover in Singapore. Thailand was an amazing country, and our 10 day stay there was too short. In that time, we were able to explore Bangkok and travel down to the island of Koh Tao for three days of diving and lounging on the beaches. As well, we took full advantage of the many street food vendors everywhere we went. So much delicious pad thai for so little. We were then fortunate to leave Thailand just before any of the demonstrations and riots began.
Back in Australia, we toured through the vineyards and giant forests of southern Western Australia for a few days before driving back east across the Nullarbor highway. While passing through South Australia, we went out on a charter to go cage diving with great white sharks. Sadly, the sharks did not want to swim with us that day, though we had a consolation prize of snorkelling with sea lions.
We continued on to Melbourne, stopping to attend an AFL (aussie rules) football game before taking the ferry south to Tasmania. We toured around the island for two weeks, stopping to hike and enjoy the natural splendor. Then it was back to the mainland for a last visit with Jodi's family in Merimbula. We also said goodbye there to our car, Wally, as we were leaving it for Jodi's parents to use in their upcoming trip to Australia.
After a few last days in Sydney, we were on a long flight back across the Pacific. Thus ended our eight month long trip of a lifetime.
No comments:
Post a Comment