Blogs from Mallacoota, Victoria, Australia, Oceania - page 2

Msalato Porridge Fee- As mentioned in our Blog page of July 3rd 2013 we, Holy Trinity congregation and friends and colleagues in the IT industry raised the necessary US$1,600.00 to fund the next 12 months 'Porridge Fee' at Msalato kindergarten in Dodoma, Tanzania. This fee provided 45 children with a hot meal of porridge every day while attending kindergarten. Also as mentioned in subsequent Blogs, on Jess's retirement from C Smart, Paul Lemaire C Smart MD & Matt Holani C Smart Executive Director, generously offered to fund the 'Porridge Fee' through C Smart in subsequent years. We just wanted to let everyone know that the donation for the 'Porridge Fee' 2014/2015 year has been received by Holy Trinity from C Smart and Holy Trinity will arrange payment to Msalato in Tanzania. Thank you so much to ... read more

Finally we have internet and phone access, it has been a little frustrating for all, as the kids have been unable to keep in touch with friends ect, and i am also able now to give a proper blog of our travels so far ( you will have to bear with me as i am learning how to use my macbook and the travelblog at the same time)!!! Any way we loved Mallacoota and all it had to offer, we all had a ball with Mick's boat and our boat which has been given the name Snot Rocket!!!! New Years we managed to stay up past midnight (well i did) Daz missed new year again!!!!!! Me and the rest of the mob went to the point to see in new year and the boys done very ... read more

First big trip is a road trip road trip to Sydney and back. We targetted the coastline closer to Sydney, and therefore spent the first day covering many miles, or kilometers as it were, over 400 of them. While we had to spend many hours in the car, we did find time for some fun and leisure. There are many wine regions surrounding Melbourne, so our first stop was at a winery for our lunch break. The wine was good, we even planned to buy a bottle, but the dining room service was uninterested in serving us one of the available window tables. Rather than give our money to a classist establishment, we instead slummed it with cheese and salad wraps on their boardwalk through the boggy tree palm patch. Fruit stands dot the highway as ... read more

Not in Kansas anymore I encounter a wallaby and a wombat on my walk to the bricked bathroom. I stop and take pictures until I notice the wallaby is deliberately moving closer to me (the wombat snuffles along uncaring, munching the grass). The wallaby’s nearness makes me nervous. I know it’s used to handouts but I absolutely do not want to encourage it. It’s a wild animal after all. These campground followers are too caught between tameness and wildness. The campgrounds are still sleeping and I walk to the beach, reveling in the open expanse. The tide has pulled in. There are only two other people walking about, a pair of men zigzagging along. I stretch on the sand and watch as the sunshine hits the cove cliffs. On the little beach entry path back, I’m ... read more

17 - 19 November 2010 We arrived in Mallacoota where we camped out for 3 nights right on the foreshore of Mallacoota Inlet. This place is amazing with beautiful beaches, good fishing (not that we caught anything!) and lots of sunshine. We are starting to love any place that throws a little sunshine our way. Oscar has really been in the wars at Mallacoota - split his lip in one incident, then his chin in another incident, then smashed his head on the road which cut his forehead and left him slightly in and out of consciousness. Never a dull moment with our little dude. Can't believe we are already in Victoria. Feels like we've seen so much already and covered a lot of ground but to look at the big picture, we've covered such a ... read more