Rarotonga – where do I start? When you arrive at a small international airport at 1am and you’re greeted by a live performer on guitar, singing sweetly in the local tongue, you know you’ve found a pretty special place. Hustled through customs quickly because we had kids and it was past midnight (note to people…
When we arrived at the Kurnell Visitor Centre a couple of weeks back, the ranger asked us if we were heading out to see the whales. “Oh, the whales are migrating now?” was my reply. “Yes, they’ve spotted a heap this morning. The volunteers are out there counting.” For an enviro-chick, I feel a little…
Narooma, on the south coast of New South Wales about 4 hours south of Sydney, is a beautiful little gem of a town where we spent a couple of weeks camping last summer. One of the draw-cards to the area is Montague Island, just 9km offshore, known as Baranguba by the local indigenous people. Montague…
One of the best things about living in the Sutherland Shire is having the bush on our doorstep. I’ve written about the beaches at Cronulla and Bundeena, but the bush is just as much of a drawcard. A few of our favourite spots are in the Royal National Park, particularly where the bush meets the…
Ah, the Sutherland Shire. Who needs Sydney Harbour when you have Port Hacking? Who needs the Manly ferry when you have the Curranulla? OK, so it’s not quite as memorable as that rocking ride across Sydney heads to Manly, and there’s no Opera House or Harbour Bridge to gawk at, but the kids don’t care…
With the summer school holidays upon us, I’m posting a series of cool outdoorsy things to do with kids, highlighting some of our favourite local spots. Our stomping ground is the Sutherland Shire, in our fair city’s southern outskirts, and while living down here (in north Melbourne, as my Northern Beaches bro-in-law calls it) can…
Raising Explorers 