Have you ever seen a little Blue Penguin?

Our Warmshowers host Bronnie showed me and Amaya the great Ecocentre in Melbourne. Among other things Bronnie’s work there includes lectures on sustainable living and environmental topics. The Ecocentre has been active in a diverse range of environmemtal topics since more than 20 years. The Melbourne based NGO started with conservation issues in Melbourne’s coastal areas. Melbourne’s Port Philip […]

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Birthdays en Route

We actually celebrated Tayanika’ s 3rd birthday two times, one time in Melbourne and one time in Tasmania. We had a yummy pre-birthday cake and songs with friends that had invited us to their house in “Altona” (sic!). A suburb southwest of Melbourne, not to confuse with that of Hamburg, despite it also being near […]

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Tasmania here we come

The Ferry Spirit if Tasmania brought us from Melbourne to Devonport in Tasmania and we are now very excited to explore this remote end of the world.  We started cycling in the far western part Tasmania and were treated a very quiet road. And this was not a side road but the A2 highway. This […]

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From Cutie to Spooky

Since our last Wildlife Spotting Blog, it got even better, as we had even Wildlife camping. To the kids delight, we had a lot more wallaby and kangaroo contact, than expected. On one campsite at Potato Point, in the middle of the Eurobodalla National Park, we were surrounded by Wallabies and Kangaroos. They were literally […]

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