This was our biggest trip ever: three weeks in Australia (… and 24 hours travel time just to get there).
After I attended the RE’10 conference, Cynthia came over (traveling all by herself from Zurich via Singapore to Sydney), and then we traveled together through Eastern and central Australia.
Of course, there is a photo gallery.
We spent the first few days in Sydney – where the locals said there was more rain than ever before at this time of year.
From Sydney, we flew 1200km north to Hervey Bay and took the ferry to Fraser Island, a 75mi (130km) long sand island, which is large enough to have tropical rainforest and freshwater lakes on it. Since my lovely wife had conveniently forgotten her driver’s license :-), I had to do all the 4WD driving along the sandy inland tracks: speed limit 30 km/h, and you’re really not tempted to drive any faster than that. We stayed at the Kingfisher Bay Resort, a really nice hotel, which consists of many little buildings, designed to blend into the forest.