I’m currently reading Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey and I felt that this excerpt was appropriate to depict the feeling I had when we all jumped from the boat and ducked into the water only to hear the whales talking to each other in that faint incredible sound. I’ll never forget that moment. Airlie Beach and my sailing trip in the Whitsundays islands is my favourite part of my Australian trip. Lying on the deck at night gazing at the stars, having a delicious barbecue dinner and sleeping on a subtly cradling water.

“Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. Therefore the frogs, the toads, keep on singing even though we know, if they don’t, that the sound of their uprorar must surely be luring all the snakes and ringtail cats and kit foxes and coyotes and great horned owls toward the scene of their happiness.”

I know that heaven exists. It’s on Earth, in the Whitsundays Islands…

The whales of Hervey Bay. I had no idea how moving it would be…

Fraser Island

Life on the road…

I’ve been offline for a few weeks hence the lack of updates. I also broke my phone which apart from the fact that I couldn’t get online at all, meant I didn’t have an alarm anymore and just got up when I was awake. I realized how bad it was that the first thing I do in the morning is checking my phone. Daydreaming staring at the ceiling and listening to the birds is a much better first impression for my day.

Also been catching up with some reading which I’ll review soon. In the meantime, here are a few catching up photos.

Leaving Sydney

Byron Bay

Surfers Paradise view from Labrador

Australian Zoo

Noosa

Balmoral is another of the pretty suburbs around Sydney harbour. I really really like it there. To celebrate my last few days here, Gemma and I grabbed lunch at the super posh Bathers Pavillion.

Laying on the grass for a while near the water was the highlight of my exploration of Balmain…