Australia
Top Five: American Burgers in Sydney
Looking for the best American burgers in Sydney? It will comfort the most seasoned of American expats in Australia to know that American comfort food is hugely trendy in Sydney at the moment. Creamy mac and cheese, spicy wings with bleu cheese, waffle fries, and, of course, the quintessential favorite, the burger. Where can you … Read more
5 Best Things about Winter in Sydney
5 Best Things about Winter in Sydney Sydney is not a particularly enjoyable place to be in winter. The concept of central heating never really took off in Australia, leading to frigid houses and evenings curled up on the couch next to the space heater (a fire safety hazard in and of itself), but I … Read more
Home is Where the Fish Are: Snorkeling in Sydney
If you are like me and lack the common sense to live in an air-conditioned house in Sydney, where temperatures in summer are regularly in the 90’s and upwards, getting wet is one of the best ways to cool off. Sure, a cold shower would do the trick, but there’s not much marine life in … Read more
An Open Letter to the Sharks
By the time you read this, you’ll probably be snared on a drum line, waiting to die a slow and painful death; punishment for your heinous crime of existing in your own ocean. If I may be honest, we don’t like you. In fact, your mere presence in the great blue abyss of our beloved … Read more
Of Reef Sharks & Corals: Wavelength Marine Charters (A Review)
I’m not normally one to write reviews, but the one thing everyone who visits Australia does is visit the Great Barrier Reef- as I spent (literally) hours/days researching where to go and what tour operator to go out on the reef with, growing slightly obsessed with getting it right, I thought the least I could … Read more
“Ship Giant Octopus”, or, The Burning Issues of the Internet
As any self-respecting blogger would know, one of the more fun bits of having a blog is (obsessively) checking your stats after you’ve published a new piece to see how many people have viewed your blog, what country they’re from, and their search engine terms- i.e. what people typed into Google that led them to … Read more
A Few Words on Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park
Uluru- Kata Tjuta National Park: Uluru, a place of sacred importance to the Anangu (the traditional land owners of this area). Kata-Tjuta (translates to “many heads”), also known as the Olgas. The beauty, awe, and spirituality of this place can be done no justice with words or images, at least not by me, so I’ll … Read more