I returned to Australia for a 12 day trip in July 2019, anchoring out of Brisbane. The highlight of this trip was a 3 day visit to the surfer town of Byron Bay, just 93 kilometres south of the Gold Coast. Byron Bay, a population of about 10,000 is...
I was pretty fortunate to have a cloudless four day camping weekend in Tofino, British Columbia, in mid March, 2020. Tofino is a small community on the West-side of Vancouver Island and is known for its spectacular scenery and amazing outdoor experiences. During my short stay I took in...
A highlight of my van camping trip in March, 2020, to Tofino on the West-side of Vancouver Island, British Columbia (BC), was Long Beach within Pacific Rim National Park. It’s considered a bit of a surfers paradise (albeit cold at 7 to 16 degrees Celsius) producing waves for stoked...
In July 2019 I visited a good friend of mine in Moncton, New Brunswick, and was given an excellent tour of some spectacular coastline in New Brunswick. St. Martins |Fundy Trail Parkway St. Martins is a village along the Fundy Trail Parkway and a place to witness the phenomenal...
Venice is considered among the the most beautiful cities in the world due to its unusual urban design and artistic heritage. It is designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Venice is comprised of 118 islands separated by an extensive system of canals within the shallow Venetian Lagoon and...
A highlight of my August, 2018, trip to Melbourne, Australia, was a day bus tour along the Great Ocean Road and seeing the 12 Apostles. The 243-kilometre Great Ocean Road is listed as an Australian National Heritage site and winds along the south-eastern coast of Australia. The road was...
I had visited Sydney when I was with the Canadian Navy back in November 1986 when we joined in to celebrate the Royal Australian Navy’s 75th anniversary. I didn’t have much time ashore so I was happy to visit again, this time on my own, in July 2018, for...
The 6 km Bondi to Coogee walk is likely the most famous coastal trail in Sydney, New South Wales. I started my trek one early July 2018 morning after having taken a 10 minute Sydney city train to Bondi Junction and then a 15 minute bus ride to...
I anchored my one week of Moroccan travel in early December 2017 from Casablanca, the largest city of 3.5 million people. Also known from the 1942 film Casablanca (but filmed in Hollywood) staring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman (with the famous line, “Play it, Sam!”), this Atlantic coast city...
Departing Miami on November 17th, 2014, on-board the Norwegian Star for a 13 day Panama Canal cruise was a vacation we had been anxiously awaiting for over a year and was finally getting underway. In good company with my mother, great friends and their family, the three day journey...