Monthly Archives: December 2011

Crossing the Strait and Flying Fox Fiesta

Posted on December 30, 2011 by onlinewheatleys

Tasmania. Our last state. Also ours to enjoy with friends! It all started when we, after a dinner with our friends, departed on the words; “See you in Tazzy!” None of us believed it was actually going to happen until … Continue reading →

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Merry Christmas!

Posted on December 25, 2011 by onlinewheatleys

Merry Christmas to all our dear family, friends and fellow travellers! We are spending our first Christmas away from home at St Helen’s on the East Coast of Tasmania, with our friends The Bolgers. We have decorated the tree, cooked … Continue reading →

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Mornington Mansions

Posted on December 23, 2011 by onlinewheatleys

Famous for the mansions of the Melbournian elite and rich, the Mornington Peninsula has some fancy abodes. Surprisingly it’s not the old school Newport Rhode Island style mansions around Portsea and Sorrento that are the most impressive, its the setups … Continue reading →

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A Day in The Life of a Gold Miner, or Sovereign Hill

Posted on December 21, 2011 by onlinewheatleys

If I was a gold miner, in 1853 I would be at Ballarat hoping I would find gold today. This isn’t any Minecraft server where you dig down to Obsidian and find gold or diamond. This is the Gold Rush … Continue reading →

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No School Today?

Posted on December 20, 2011 by onlinewheatleys

“What are you doing about their school work?” has been one of the most common questions of our trip. It has been asked by well meaning nomads, suspicious shopkeepers and other parents doing their best on the road like us. … Continue reading →

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Show Us Your Rocks Victoria!

Posted on December 17, 2011 by onlinewheatleys

And into Victoria we drove… Being into the extreme sport of crochet, I could see that Victoria was going to be a state at the cutting edge, when I noticed “guerilla crochet” on the drainpipe at our first lunch stop … Continue reading →

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