pandachris
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I'll see how I get on with this. I'll try, if time and other things permit, to keep it up to date, but plenty of distractions will be around to make things difficult.
At the time of writing it's about 10 hours until we fly out from Birmingham, arriving in Sydney at 06:30 on Sunday morning. We intend to do a lot of bird and wildlife watching but have other priorities as well, like seeing family and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Here's our itinerary:
26th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade
27th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade
28th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade - full day professional guided birding
29th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade
30th March Sydney - Bondi Beach, staying at my eldest son's place, apparently.
31st March Melbourne - Victoria Hotel
1st April Melbourne - Victoria Hotel - full day professional guided birding
2nd April Melbourne - Victoria Hotel
3rd April San Remo - Quays Motel
4th April Melbourne - Ciloms hotel
5th April Julatten (nr Cairns) - Kingfisher Park
6th April Julatten - Kingfisher Park - full day professional guided birding
7th April Julatten - Kingfisher Park
8th April Darwin - DoubleTree
9th April Darwin - DoubleTree
10th April Alice Springs - Alice in the Territory
11th April Alice Springs - Alice in the Territory - full day professional guided birding
12th April Alice Springs - Alice in the Territory
13th April Bowrah - Biota Alice Springs
14th April Sydney - Q Station, Manly
15th April - return to UK
We'll have rental cars most of the time. The closest we've been to Australia hitherto is Singapore so we're hoping to find a decent number of species that we haven't seen before and at least one of us has Koala and Duck-billed Platypus on her priorities list. I have a plan for those.
At the time of writing it's about 10 hours until we fly out from Birmingham, arriving in Sydney at 06:30 on Sunday morning. We intend to do a lot of bird and wildlife watching but have other priorities as well, like seeing family and the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Here's our itinerary:
26th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade
27th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade
28th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade - full day professional guided birding
29th March Sydney - Hotel Palisade
30th March Sydney - Bondi Beach, staying at my eldest son's place, apparently.
31st March Melbourne - Victoria Hotel
1st April Melbourne - Victoria Hotel - full day professional guided birding
2nd April Melbourne - Victoria Hotel
3rd April San Remo - Quays Motel
4th April Melbourne - Ciloms hotel
5th April Julatten (nr Cairns) - Kingfisher Park
6th April Julatten - Kingfisher Park - full day professional guided birding
7th April Julatten - Kingfisher Park
8th April Darwin - DoubleTree
9th April Darwin - DoubleTree
10th April Alice Springs - Alice in the Territory
11th April Alice Springs - Alice in the Territory - full day professional guided birding
12th April Alice Springs - Alice in the Territory
13th April Bowrah - Biota Alice Springs
14th April Sydney - Q Station, Manly
15th April - return to UK
We'll have rental cars most of the time. The closest we've been to Australia hitherto is Singapore so we're hoping to find a decent number of species that we haven't seen before and at least one of us has Koala and Duck-billed Platypus on her priorities list. I have a plan for those.