As I looked over the route that morning, I pointed at a little spot where the highway dipped towards the sea. "Hmm...Lakes Entrance, wonder what that could be? Let's go!" You can tell Australia's still a young country in its official language - names in English have far to go before capturing the spirit of a place in an original way.
Posing like I'm hosting a Lakes Entrance boat party
Posing like he owns the entire fleet
Still, some place-names go beyond originality - as one resident said of Eden, Australia: "This is one spot that lives up to its name."
When we arrived at the hastily-booked Crown & Anchor
after a long day's drive, the porch was inviting to tired eyes
then we walked down the hallway, and opened the door to our room....
to discover a huge bathtub in the middle of it!
this retro radio and radiator worked, thanks to modern wiring
and plugged into old fixtures with new electrics
this kind of craftsmanship seems fussy to some, but makes for a good shot
With the room came a bottle of champagne, so we wasted no time
it was much tastier than the Tasmanian stuff we'd tried on New Years Eve
An appetizing view over breakfast
But there was one thing R. had been looking for the whole trip and hadn't yet found....
R. pointing at the quarry. True to what we'd been told, they love golf courses: we saw at least fifty on this one
The next night we stayed at a hazelnut farm nearby. Here's a flowering hazelnut branch
R wouldn't look out of place in the Boundary Waters, a favorite holiday spot for many people in Minnesota, where my family lives
On our way back to Sydney, we stopped by this beach along the Sapphire Coast.
This week's been our first footsteps in this huge country we've begun to call home. Where are your favorite spots in Australia?
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