Where to start? That is always the question when you have to tell your story. Well, my story started from a young age. Both my parents were from diverse backgrounds and my father in particular was always an adventurer and a creative person. He encouraged me to be creative, however, by the time I was…
Tag: determination
The Great Escape…
Here I was at the tender age of 18 and still relatively naive, about to embark on my first big adventure. I’d booked flights only to Australia, I was armed with my Lonely planet guide, a 20KG backpack with sleeping bag and I was waiting with anticipation, excitement and nerves to board my Malaysian Airways…
The Great Ocean Road and beyond…
Having enjoyed my first few days of Australia in Sydney, just prior to me flying onto Melbourne, I took a ride out to Botany Bay where Captain James Cook first landed in Australia. The backstory of Botany Bay is, Captain James Cook first landed in Botany Bay, Australia, in 1770 having departed from Plymouth, UK…
Ph-Ph-Photograph a Penguin Parade!
There is more to Tasmania than a Devil…
The blue and the botanical…
A tale of the Bush and the Outback…
The land does not belong to the Aborigines, the Aborigines belong to the land. Those of you old enough, may also remember this being mention in the film Crocodile Dundee (1986)… This is an actual fact and not the stuff of movie fiction. Uluru or more commonly known amongst tourists as Ayers Rock, isn’t just…
Shark bait’s great leap of faith…
Darwin to a salty close…
Departing Cairns, my first stop was briefly in Gove Peninsula as there wasn’t a direct flight to Darwin. I popped into a little newsagent at this landing strip airport and the guy behind the counter was about to give me my second thought of “I have flown 13,000 miles to find this???” The first thing…
The Wild and Wondrous Plains of Africa…
On a cold November morning I departed London Heathrow and just over 8 Hours later, following a turbulent flight, I touched down in Nairobi, Kenya, late in the evening. My African Adventure was about to begin! It was incredibly humid passing through Nairobi airport and as with any foreign travel you are trying to keep…