Tasman National Park’s Bivouac Bay, plus Remarkable Cave, Tasmania

Light rain overnight pattered gently on the tent at our campsite at Fortescue Bay, and we heard an unidentified critter sniffing at our thin-walled shelter in the night. Vilis cooked hot porridge for ...

To Hobart and Fortescue Bay, Tasman National Park, Tasmania

In an about-face from the past five days of brilliantly sunny weather, the sky was cloudy with clear breaks over Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport when our Jetstar flight sped down one of the airportâ...

Melbourne: A City that’s Hopping

After leaving the Rydges Melbourne at 7:45 a.m., Vilis and I strolled south on Exhibition Street and crossed a sextet of railway lines into Birrarung Marr Park bordering the Yarra River. Terns wheeled...

Melbourne: Cultural Capital of Australia

Melbourne’s Chinatown was quiet when I walked through it early this morning. I saw only delivery trucks as I headed for Elizabeth Street, which I followed northwest to Queen Victoria Market. As ...