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Saturday 4 February – Heron Island
It was quite a noisy night! Andreas had mentioned that the Mutton Birds were fairly vocal and again he was not joking. They only come to the island at night, to reunite with their pair who will have been left in the underground nest incubating the eggs or looking after the baby. They greet each…
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Friday 3 February – To Heron Island
Quite an early start to catch our ferry, having efficiently arranged a taxi from the hotel the night before. This, however, failed to materialise. Not unusual we felt, as the nice guy behind the reception offered to drive us himself … as I fear he did most mornings! We arrived at the ferry terminal about…
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Wednesday and Thursday 1/2 February – Sydney to Gladstone
Wednesday was a bit of an admin day though in the afternoon I had a lovely time watching ballet class at McDonald College, thanks to Sarah Dehn and her lovely friend Lindsay. McDonald is a vocational school for the performing arts and some sports. A number of students have come from McDonald to The Royal…
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Tuesday 31 January – Sydney
Freddie came for the day so we had a wonderful excuse to go to the Zoo. I had heard much about Toronga Zoo and indeed it more than lived up to expectation. It is very cleverly designed on quite a steep hill going down to the water and you can see a multitude of animals…
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Monday 30 January – Sydney
After our early walk this morning, Amanda kindly drove me to Wild Life Sogo to meet Adam who was to cut my hair! My lovely hairdresser Andre, had recommended him and indeed he was very charming, and gave me a nice ‘economical’ haircut …. I will not need one for a while! In the afternoon…
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Sunday 29 January – Sydney
On Sunday morning, I headed off to have coffee with Yasmine and Reece. It was just so lovely to see them and catch-up on all their news. It was also fascinating to hear how this gala had been for them. It is run by an incredibly young guy called Joel Burke aged 22/3 and this…
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Saturday 28 January – Sydney
Another 5.30 walk in Centennial Park with the ‘girls’ and Frank meeting Michelle and Elly on our way and most others in the park. Saturday morning is busy, even at this hour. I have never seen so many runners, quite a lot of them (men!) topless which made it that much more enjoyable. Back for…
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Friday 27 January – Sydney
Today has been a bit of a quieter day and I confess, I was not on the 5.30am dog-walk this morning! We went down-town to do a bit of shopping for our trip to Heron Island and than had a lovely lunch in the restaurant which Amanda’s daughter, Alexandra runs with her boyfriend Christian who…
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Thursday 26 January – Australia Day (and Happy Birthday Tim)
Amanda is an early walker, ….. up at 4.45 and out of the house by 5.30! I decided to join her and though a little bleary eyed, I am so glad I did. It was spectacular at that time of day, seeing the sun rise over the city and the beautiful Centennial Park (their Central/Hyde…
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Wednesday 25 January – To Sydney
After another very delicious breakfast in the East Hotel we checked out and headed for Canberra’s famous arboretum. Described as a mosaic of living forests, it has over 44,000 rare and endangered trees planted across a 250 hectare site on an area burned out by two major bush-fires in 2001 and 2003. It has the…
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