Category Archives: Sydney

Blog posts for Sydney

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Sydney has new ‘automated’ immigration gates…

Traveling from Melbourne to Sydney is easy, even having dropped the Hyundai i20 rental car at East Coast Car Rentals near the airport. I’m at Qantas Domestic in Melbourne in plenty of time for my […]

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Whale watching in Sydney!

Today’s ‘tourist activity’ is to go whale watching off the Sydney Harbour heads. It has a dual purpose – one, to keep me busy until my late night flight to Hong Kong, and two, to […]

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OMG…School Holidays in Sydney!

I’ve gotten into a bad habit in Sydney – doing the same thing each time I visit for anything other than work. This time I’ve decided to play tourist to get out of the rut. […]

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Photobook – EPIC 2012

8 months after I’ve arrived home from Epic 2012, I’ve finally finished the photobook (click the hyperlink) from that trip…a whopping 200 A3 pages. Then again,  I did cover a lot of ground – Melbourne to […]

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Sydney to Calama

Strong tail winds over the Pacific Ocean between Sydney and Santiago reduce the flight time by at least an hour. Very quick flight to Auckland of 2 hours 35 minutes, and 10 hours from Auckland […]

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The Queen in Sydney, Australia

Today is a day in Sydney waiting for tomorrow’s flight to Santiago, Chile, for the start of an epic journey that includes the Atacama Desert, a repositioning expedition of the National Geographic Explorer from Ushuaia, […]