The Vuljanics

Monday, July 11, 2011

Last thoughts on Australia

We thoroughly enjoyed our four months in Australia. We loved the travel opportunities we had to see so many magnificent places. Sydney, The Great Ocean Road, The Great Barrier Reef, New Zealand, Tasmania, and The Whitsunday Islands were all great adventures we enjoyed. Even more we were amazed by God's beautiful creation across the world. We loved our apartment in downtown Sydney, where we could walk to some of our favorite places including Darling Harbour and The Rocks or catch the train to other great places. Caleb enjoyed walking 2 blocks to work at William Buck. We are thankful for the opportunity to explore Australia, meet great Aussies, and for our family to enjoy this all together. We hope that this blog (and book) will help us remember our time in Australia.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Our Balcony

We spent a lot of time on our balcony. We also had a few visitors...beautiful cockatoos.

Airlie Beach

After Tasmania we flew to The Whitsunday Islands in Queensland. We flew into Hamilton Island, into the smallest airport we have ever been to. They didn't even have a baggage belt, they just drove to baggage carts right up to us. We then took a bus to the harbour to take ferry to Airlie Beach, back on the mainland. We would have loved to stay at Hamilton Island but Airlie Beach was much cheaper. It was beautiful landing on an island. As the theme of our vacation time, the weather was not to best. We had planned to take a day tour of the Whitsunday Islands but with the hefty price tag and rainy weather we decided to stay around Airlie beach. We hate that we missed out on views like this...

Whitehaven Beach

We did have 5 great days. We decided to splurge on a 2 bedroom apartment which was great because we had a ton of down time there. We got down to the lagoon one decent morning for some swimming and every chance we got we went swimming in the pool at our hotel. Our vacation was different than we expected but it was great having down time before coming home.

A few pictures from our time at Airlie Beach:

The view from our balcony.

The view walking down the road from our apartment to town.

Airlie Beach

The Lagoon.

Wineglass Bay

The main reason we drove to Freycinet National Park was to see Wine Glass Bay. It is one of the most beautiful views in Tasmania. The day we went it was rainy and cloudy which made the view a little less beautiful but it was still very pretty.