Right after I checked into my hotel, I confirmed my booking for a dinner show that night called Sounds of Silence. It was mostly couples—honeymooners and older retired folk on vacation. I think I was the only one who went alone, but I befriended two dear widows taking a vacation together from Scotland, so I didn’t feel lonely. The whole thing took place outside. Everyone had some champagne and hors d’oeuvres before dinner, many of them wearing fly nets over…
This was my view from the plane coming to the Red Centre, headed for the Yulara Resort. In the foreground are The Olgas, or Kata Tjuta, and in the background, closer to the horizon and only slightly obscured by the atmosphere, is Ayers Rock, or Uluru. I was going to pack a book by Robert Ruarke, titled Uhuru, just for the sake of the irony in reading Uhuru at Uluru, but the book is hardcover and heavy, and I wanted…
My last full day in Perth was kind of a free-for-all. I didn’t want to do anything too taxing because I had an early domestic flight the next day for the next city on my itinerary. So my godmother decided we’d visit the riverside, the aquarium, and the zoo while the sun was up, and at sundown I planned on treating my godmother and her husband to a very nice dinner out. The visit to the riverside was mostly so…
My fourth full day in Australia was a Sunday, and my godmother is a devout churchgoer. So I didn’t go on another full-day tour. Instead, I did my laundry and my postcard writing in the morning, and I got on an afternoon cruise down the river to the Fremantle Harbour and back. It seems pretty tame compared to the sandboarding of the day before, but it’s kind of hard to top a Desert Storm adventure when you’re touring unfamiliar country….
The Photo Friday topic is “smooth” so I thought I’d let this installment of my Australia posts do double duty. Dunes are generally pretty smooth looking mounds of sand, right? Well, this shot was taken at the dunes in Lancelin, where you can also see a white sand beach to the west if you’re standing high on a mound somewhere. Now, I know this particular dune doesn’t look perfectly smooth, but that’s because of what our group and others did…