Wombats might be my new favorite Australian animal: soft, cuddly and incredibly cute. At the Wombat Fauna and Rescue in Ceduna, not only did I get to pet my first wombat--they're usually nocturnal and live in secluded holes--but I got to hold the...
Let's make one thing very clear: I am a city girl. I have sworn to always live within five minutes from a grocery store (because I am also that girl who goes grocery shopping for milk and leaves with a full cart minus the milk), twenty minutes from a...
The Koonalda Homestead is an eerie place, a wide stretch of empty land suddenly littered with cars that sputtered to a stop in the middle of the Nullarbor in the 1950s.
Originally a sheep shearing station, the Gurney family also established a fuel...
Forget the Sydney Opera House. Does Australia get any more iconic than kangaroos on the beach?
One of the items on my Australia bucket list was to spot some kangaroos and koala bears--in other words, get up close and personal with Australian...
In 10 days, I swam with sea lions and dolphins, climbed a 52-meter tree, sunbathed with kangaroos on whiter-than-snow sand beaches, crossed the longest straight road in Australia and drove more than 3,000 kilometers (or 1,800 miles). I fell asleep...