Hugh & Justine’s Excellent Adventure

First - my apologies to everyone for last week's blog being down for several hours! I actually wrote it early but not long after I published it, the hosting site went down and didn't come back up for several hours. I received some panicked emails, but the site came...

So much for living in weather paradise, the past month has been so darn rainy! We had the 3 lovely days last weekend and then it's been raining again since. It was so bad, I know this is going to make you cry, Hugh's golf game was cancelled on Friday! Say it ain't so!...

Well, we saw our first stick insect this week! I was walking up to the 1st floor of my building at work on Monday night and at first walked on by, thinking a twig had become stuck on the wall (stairwells in our building are outside, so this was on an outside wall on a...

This was a winning week for the retiree in the house! Although Hugh didn't have the best of golf games on Monday, the $5 raffle ticket he bought paid off. He got a call on Tue morning that he'd won a meat tray! In my mind, I pictured a deli meat platter maybe 30-40 cm...

So emus are supposed to be fairly common here - there are apparently around 700,000 of them across the country. That's nowhere near the 50 million kangaroos we have, but still a good number of large, running birds. On the highway between Yeppoon and Rockhampton, there...

I've stolen the title of this blog from our friend Joanne - this is the phrase she used when she posted photos of Hugh's, Kevin's, and her great wins at this week's golf comp in Bargara! When people here meet Hugh and ask what kind of work he does, he typically...

Not a lot to report on this week, so that gives me an opportunity to finally share information I've been gathering on health care prices. Probably a boring topic for Aussies but for Canadians, who aren't given any information about what various health services cost,...

On Friday after work, Hugh and I decided to go for a walk on the beach. The big question here is of course, which beach? We have so many to choose from! We decided on Farnborough Beach, but further north than we've been previously. Farnborough Beach is ENORMOUS and,...

I'm afraid we didn't get out an awful lot again this week as my work schedule was still a bit crazy (should start settling down now), but still have some fun tidbits to share with you. First, we're hearing a new frog lately! We haven't seen him yet, but based on the...

Well, it was a light week activity-wise as I was a bit overloaded with work this week, so I'll use this opportunity to catch up on sharing some more interesting tidbits we've learned about Australia since arriving. NOTE: I have linked a song below that contains bad...

I've been quite sure for awhile now that my phone is listening to me and reporting everything to Google and Facebook. Now I'm also thinking my laptop is reading my blog and reporting it to major news outlets. Last Sunday I wrote about the mystery of feeling so hot and...