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Tomorrow it’s on the birds PER-xADL-ASP to do an Outback Spirit tour of the Red Centre for five nights, plus an extra night in ASP at the end of the tour before getting on the ASP-xADL-PER birds home. All flights are J Classic Rewards. The itinerary shows the route as starting at ASP and ending...

Time for our usual third week of January summer break before PJM resumes toil, so tomorrow it’s on the (downgauged since booking) QF bird PER-SYD, overnight at Rydges, then the QF bird on Monday to ZQN for five nights, NZ ZQN-AKL to overnight, then the NZ bird AKL-PER Sunday next week. The QF...

Come Sunday night, it’s on the EK bird PER-xDXB-FCO to start a brief trip to Italy. As those who regularly read the Qantas Wine latest offering thread would know, I was the winner of the Win a Trip to Italy competition back in April. When Deirdre, the Qantas Wine rep phoned (in an unbelievably...

Righto, three weeks is enough time at home. Tomorrow it’s back on the bird PER-DRW to overnight before boarding Coral Expeditions’ Coral Geographer for a 12-night voyage along the Kimberley coast and out to Ashmore Reef, Scott Reef and Rowley Shoals. Coral Expeditions plies the Kimberley Coast...

Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-DRW for a brief trip to Kakadu. Before covid, PJM and her daughter booked an Intrepid trip for 2020. That became history and many things have changed, so the credit is being used with me substituting for PJM’s daughter. Tomorrow night will be in Darwin before we...

Righto, time to hit the road again. Come tomorrow at sparrow’s, it’s off to Dirk Hartog Island for the next week. The island is a National Park within the Shark Bay World Heritage Area and is famous for Dutch East India Company Captain Dirk Hartog, sailing the ship Eendracht from Cape Town to...

Time to get air and sea-borne again. Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-SYD, to overnight there before SYD-CNS the next morning. Overnight in CNS before boarding the Coral Discoverer (Coral Discoverer) for a 7-night voyage to the outer Great Barrier Reef. And a better perspective: This voyage...

Tomorrow it’s on the bird PER-SYD to – finally – get aboard the Indian Pacific for the trundle back to PER on Wednesday 1355h-Saturday 1500h. While this trip follows my recent DRW-ADL journey on the Ghan (A gallop on The Ghan), its planning long preceded the organising of that. I originally...

Time to get on the move again. Tomorrow around noon it’s on the bird PER-DRW and then on Friday morning DRW-GOV to start a 12-night journey across Arnhem Land back to Darwin and then home after another night in DRW. Here’s the route: Most of the TR will be after returning home as we’ll be...

This afternoon it’s on an Air North (QF codeshare) E190 PER-KNX until Saturday morning for some warmth and exploration. PJM hasn’t previously been to Kununurra, but I’ve kicked around there a few times before, so I have a few (surprise) activities planned to take in the classic sights of the...

Righto, this afternoon it’s on the bird PER-SYD - and back on an A330 at last - to take in Vivid for two nights. Using a credit from an aborted 2021 flight from my Amex Ultimate $450 flight credit plus I think snaring some extra QF points from the status extension promo, according to my sketchy...

Time to hitch up the camels. Tomorrow, it’s sliding into 1A again. This time, PER-DRW in preparation for boarding The Ghan on Wednesday morning for the 2,979km run to Adelaide, arriving Saturday morning. There will off-train excursions at Katherine, Alice Springs and Manguri/Coober Pedy on the...

Back in pre-history when I did a lengthy DONEx every year and stitched into it a variety of free-range and organised tour activities, I had booked in 2019 back-to-back Intrepid and Peregrine (both Intrepid Group companies) tours: Romania-Moldova-Ukraine :oops: and Azerbaijan-Georgia-Armenia as a...

Tomorrow morning, it’s on the bird to Broome. This time, it's until Friday - in contrast to the overnight brush in December 2020 that was done to meet a status-extension offer (A Brush with Broome), some brief brushing passing through in June 2021 (Brushing Broome to points further N) and in...

Back in March, in a fit of misplaced optimism, I thought the world was returning to normal so I started planning a heap of travel. Well, we all know how that turned out. :rolleyes: One booking that I did keep in place was to visit the Qantas Founders Museum in LRE. I’ve been to Winton and...

Back in mid-January 2020, I booked this voyage for January 2021: Explore Raja Ampat & Spice Islands with Coral Expeditions Then…, well, you know the story… It crashed and burned in July 2020. My deposit lay around with Coral Expeditions until at the end of January 2021, when they announced a...

Earlier this week, on a stunning spring day, I took a day trip N of Perth to Lesueur National Park, a particularly floristically rich area in SW Australia (Lesueur | Explore Parks WA | Parks and Wildlife Service; Lesueur National Park). It has been an extremely good wildflower season in WA this...

Righto, I’ve been home a couple of weeks. That’s long enough. Time to hit the road and again get ‘up north’, as we say here. So, tomorrow morning, it’s off again. PJM snared a week of leave between school holidays, so she is in on this jaunt and we can avoid the worst of the zoo that points...

Come Tuesday, I’m heading north again for a couple of weeks. This time, it’s a 4WD tag-along to Rudall River/Karlamilyi National Park, WA’s largest NP (Karlamilyi National Park - Wikipedia, Karlamilyi National Park, WA - Hema Maps). It’s here: The meeting point is Newman on Wednesday...

It’s getting a bit cold in the SW, so I had started itching for a trip N. My Initial plan was to head to Cape Leveque, north of Broome, as I had not been up that cape before and I hear good things. Coinciding with the general time I was considering going, my elder son wanted to scope a...