I’ve just done the one-hour Hop A Tour Australian Wilderness Experience virtual live event with Matthew Urmenyhazi and thoroughly enjoyed it. While most of Matt’s tours are booked out well in advance, I happened to be the only guest on tonight’s tour. Crocodile Dundee, seafood barbies, and the Opera House Matt is about as Australian as Crocodile Dundee, seafood barbies, or the Sydney Opera House. He’s dedicated his whole life so far to exploring the Australian wilderness and to sharing his deep insights gained as tour guide and in many other ways. From the first moment there is no doubt that this dude knows his stuff inside out and could do the tour with his eyes closed. It also takes only a few seconds for his quirky, hilarious, and pleasantly rough sense of humour to shine through. All pics incl. feature pic and the video (c) Hop A Tour, […]
Taronga Zoo to Balmoral Beach Walk
This walk has become one of our classics each time we visit Sydney and not a single trip to this town has passed without us doing at least one Taronga-to-Balmoral walk. It follows the twisted coastline around peninsulas and bays through thick subtropical jungle and shrub along beaches and on top of cliffs. Taronga Zoo is very easy to reach from Circular Quay by ferry (it’s the first stop if you’re on the right ferry). The zoo itself has been on our list for a very long time to visit with our niece (my wife’s brother’s daughter, who lives in Sydney with her parents), but somehow we always get carried away with lots of other activities and haven’t managed to take her to the zoo yet. Today we saw many very large lizards (the largest one probably 80cm in length from nose to tail, and very […]