⛰️ Gnomes, Mountain Views And A Very Friendly Parrot – Mansfield Adventures
Mansfield turned out to be a lot more adventurous than we expected. On the way up into the High Country we passed…
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🎄 Carols, Pizza And A 20-Second Storm In Mansfield
The next day we packed up again and headed to our next house sit near Mansfield, trading desert roads for green hills…
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Journey Through Lake Tyrrell towards Mansfield
The next morning we packed up the car and pointed ourselves back towards Melbourne. This time we cut across the dry middle…
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⛰️ Big Views And Garden Calm In The Adelaide Hills
The next day we decided to keep things simple and stay local, so we drove up into the hills again for one…
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🚂 Ducks, Bagpipes and Jet Fighters: A Wild Day Out on the Mount Barker Heritage Railway
Today was one of those days that feels like three adventures rolled into one. We set off from Mount Barker and hopped…
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A Wander Through Hahndorf: Christmas Magic In Australia’s Oldest German Village
The day after our big Mount Barker railway adventure, we swapped trains for timber cottages and headed to Hahndorf, Australia’s oldest surviving…
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☀️ Port Willunga: Jetty Ruins, Cliff Caves and a nice Beach afternoon
After a morning of city rain and Christmas chaos, we swapped pavements for paradise and headed down to Port Willunga on the…
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⭐ Superhero Soft Play and the amazing Adelaide Beach
After a busy run of exploring, we decided the girls needed a pure fun day. No caves. No cliffs. No long drives.…
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🐨 Meeting Australia’s Cutest Locals in the Adelaide Hills
We woke up to another bright Adelaide morning and decided it was time for the girls to meet some proper Aussie locals……
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🌋 Stick-Tomato Cave and the Road to Adelaide – A Quirky Stop on Our Aussie Adventure
We kicked off the morning with a stop at one of the most brilliantly named places we’ve ever seen: Stick-Tomato Cave. It…
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🌊 Giants of Stone, Lighthouse Winds and the Wildest Slide Ever
We carried on along the Great Ocean Road, and the coastline just kept throwing out bigger and better scenery. Our first stop…
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Farewell New Zealand… Australia, You’re Up.
Today felt like the quiet inhale before the next big chapter. After more than a month of mountains, glow worms, alpine lakes,…
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