Travelling with Kids – Adventure isn't just about the plane trips!
Lavender evokes warm memories, safety, sunshine and cuddles. Catch a whiff and I am quickly taken back to my childhood. It has bloomed into an obsession to seek out Lavender farms when I am in southern Australia, and most recently on our 3 week trip to Tasmania. Tasmania’s cool climate and fertile soil is perfect …
Little Penguins, affectionately known as Fairy Penguins throughout my childhood, inhabit pockets of the Australian coastline from Western Australia, right along the southern coastline to New Zealand. However, if you’re keen on witnessing these adorable creatures in abundance, Tasmania is the place to be. We’ve seen penguins in Phillip Island where we experienced the incredible …
When the kids were little, heading to our local lake to feed the ducks was one of our favourite activities. Initially, we would take the remainder of our loaf of bread, and take it in turns to rip the slices apart and throw them to the ducks, geese and other water birds. As it turns …
Picked right, the Strawberry is one of the most satisfying fruits to munch on. Across coastal Australia, you can find pick your own at a plethora of Strawberry farms. Strawberry picking each season has become one of our favourite activities with the kids. To help you find a Strawberry Farm where you can pick your …
Looking for a new zoo to visit? Perhaps you are heading to Australia for the first time and wondering which Australian zoo or wildlife park is closest to your accomodation. Maybe you’re just after somewhere different to explore. When talking about Australian Zoos and Wildlife Parks with kids you are spoilt for choice. There are …
Tasmania holds a big slice of my heart not only as the place of my birth, but for the nostalgia that quickly envelops me when I think of this amazing state. You see, it was one of the first holiday spots that Tee and I visited as a young couple and spent the first month …
“We believe things like art history and the individual artist’s intention are interesting and important—but only alongside other voices and approaches that remind us that art, after all, is made and consumed by real, complex people—whose motives mostly are obscure, even to themselves.” MONA Museum of Old and New Art When talking about a trip to …
Who said kids can’t enjoy a brewery tour. We check out the James Boag’s Brewery Tour in Launceston. Beer. Some would say it’s an Australian institution. I do know that when you track back in time to when the first colony was established, beer followed. Being dedicated history buffs, the James Boag’s Brewery Tour was …
The Cascades Female Factory focuses on the experience of convict women – the only site dedicated to this in Australia. To open my first history lesson for the year, I asked my students to write down as many figures from Australian history as they could in 5 minutes. They jumped straight on task, some listing …
Port Arthur with Kids There is a site in Tasmania whose mere name when mentioned draws goosebumps on the arms of most Australians. It has an abhorrent past spanning right back to when it was a penal settlement, with its modern history possibly even scarier. It’s a place of contradictions, both beautiful yet ugly; light filled yet …
Memories are quite an interesting phenomenon. Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between true memories from your childhood and those that have formed after the many recounts from family. Before our trip to Tasmania, I was unsure about my childhood time at Launceston’s Cataract Gorge and wondered if the fleeting images, all rather whimsical, were real or …
When planning a trip to Tasmania, a stay at Bicheno to see the Little Penguins was high on my list. There were tears and a little stomping of feet when I realised that the entire East Coast of Tasmania was pretty much booked out – I had left our accomodation bookings way to late. We calculated …
It was back in 1987, after a few dismal years on the dairy industry front, that Brian Inder decided to pursue a childhood dream of creating a hedge maze and model town. His larger than life personality and quirky sense of humour, his passion for his dream and his can-do attitude saw his dream realised through …