Montsalvat Artist Village, Eltham (Victoria) – October 2018

The Montsalvat Artist Village started out at some pint in the 1930s and is still in use by artists today. I stumbled upon it while looking into things to do and see that were not to far from where I live in Melbourne and as I am interested in Art I decided to visit it. …

Fern Tree Gully National Park, Dandenong Range (Victoria) – September 2018

I have been trying to find some interesting spots to visit around Melbourne that are reachable by public transport. Weirdly the tourist information was super unhelpful and told me I could google all that??? Whats up with that, its literally their job to help me find information, its in the name!!! Anyway they ended up …

Christmas Cards from OZ

I thought a lot about whether I was going to send out Christmas cards this year or not. Postage from Australia is not the cheapest and I could save some money not sending any but I love sending Christmas cards and making someones day a little bit brighter with a piece of mail. In the …

South Pacific Humpback Whales – Brisbane 2018

Here it is finally 🙂 The post about all my whale adventures this year. Granted they weren't quite what I had planned/hoped/expected for 2018 but nevertheless I had some great times out on the water. I ended up volunteering with my friends research group and going out on the water in Moreton Bay or from …

Great Barrier Reef – May 2018

While in Cairns I of course went on a tour to go snorkeling at the Great Barrier Reef. The tour I went on let us snorkel/dive at two different reefs but, I can't remember their names. I have been to the reef before about eight years ago when I was studying in Australia and to …

Travel Journal OZ 2018

While traveling this year I have definitely missed crafting and all of my snailmail, planning and scrapbooking supplies I have at home. However I did bring some with me for my travel journal to make it nice and pretty. I have written in my journal pretty consistently since I started traveling at the end of …

National Parks in the Northern Territory – March/April 2018

During my time in the Northern Territory I visited two National Parks. The first one was Litchfield National park which I visited twice and the second one was Kakadu National Park. There are so many National Parks all over Australia that it is always hard which ones to visit when you aren't able to visit …

Darwin/Northern Territory – March/April 2018

Leaving Tasmania towards the end of March (where it was starting to get colder as it was in fact autumn) I decided to take a plane from the southern end of Australia to the northern end. I ended up in Darwin at the end of the rain season moving from a slightly colder 15-20°C to …

Snailmail send from OZ

While I haven't been able to receive much Snailmail for most of the year (as I was never in one place long enough until the last couple months) I did send letters to my Penpals though out the year to let them know about my adventures. Now I have also been horrible with taking pictures …

Tasmania, February/March 2018

Well this post is a lot later than I had originally planned for it but better late than never 🙂 At the beginning of the year I left Germany once again but this time with a no concrete plan except for going back to New Zealand and Australia to visit friends. I only spend three …