I enjoy travelling (well, most of the time!), and photography. These pages are somewhat in the form of lengthy travel diary of selected journeys. I hope you can enjoy them as much as I did.
- Adelaide by road
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in the 1964 May school holidays. See below for this journey repeated 50 years on.
- Western New South Wales and South Australia
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from February 1975, when cameras used film. And Kodachrome ruled!
- Italy, Spain and Ireland in 2002
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for the canonisation of (now) Saint Josemaria, pilgrimage and holiday, respectively.
- Alaska 2003
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A very enjoyable, and once-in-a-lifetime journey from Seattle
to Anchorage, aboard the 42 metre (137 foot) high speed catamaran
The Klondike Express.
- 2004 Vikings, Danes and All That Jazz
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was my first
KPLU (now
KNKX
) Travel Club
tour to Denmark and Norway. And it wasn't my last trip either!
- KPLU's Vive le Quebec
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tour to Quebec City (history) and Montreal (jazz festival) in July 2005.
- Italy
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in 2005 in Rome, Florence and Monza/Milan and motorcycle riding in the Dolomites.
- Snowy Mountains
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and other places in south eastern NSW, including Canberra, which is,
of course,
not
in NSW!
- Adelaide by road
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in the 2014, fifty years later, version.
- Cruise to New Caledonia
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in 2016. There are 2 choices of video - a summary, or seven videos with
much more detail.
- High water in Echuca
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in 2016, so it was time to see the Murray River with good water levels.
- 2017 ANZAC Rail Cruise
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travelling to the north and west of New South Wales.
- 2018 New Zealand Rail Cart Adventure
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which included 4 days driving modified golf carts along an out of service
rail line between Taumarunui and Stratford in New Zealand's North Island,
and a day at the Napier Art Deco Festival.
- 2019 ANZAC Rail Cruise
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travelling to the far west of New South Wales, Broken Hill.
- 2019 SJR Mayfield Gardens
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travelling Jenolan Caves, Oberon as well as the gardens.
- 2020 Nimbo Fork Lodge
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travelling to Junee, the lodge, Tumut, Gundagai and a couple of dams.
- 2020 Armidale District
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to the north west for the scenery around Uralla and Walcha.
- SJR's 2021 Kimberley Tour
- through South Australia, Northern Territory, Western Australia and New South Wales.