Yearly Archives: 2020

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Recently the Wildlife Sydney Zoo had a new arrival – an endangered Goodfellows Tree Kangaroo names Kofi! He has started to settle in after arriving from Victoria and we were so lucky to be invited to say hello to him and the other amazing Australian animals that they have in […]

Wild Life Sydney Zoo!

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With so many beautiful gardens within the Blue Mountains Area it was hard to find just one to visit. After searching on the internet and asking around on Instagram I finally decided on the Blue Mountains Botanical Gardens! My decision was made based mainly on two reasons. Entry into the […]

Blue Mountains Botanical Gardens.

 in Australia / family / Inspiration / recommendations / review / Travels with mum blog  tagged Australia / blue mountains / botanical gardens by (updated 1478 days ago)
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So, when I found out my sons last soccer game of the season was up at Port Stephens I took the opportunity to find a place to camp and come across the Koala Shores Holiday Park it look enticing and it was literally less then a kilometre away from the […]

Big 4 Koala Shores Holiday Park…. Port Stephens.

 in Australia / Camping / family / recommendations / review / travel / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog  tagged big4 holiday parks / Camping / camping australia / camping with kids by (updated 1502 days ago)
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During this time of craziness we are calling Covid many people have been going mad with online purchases or just buying stuff in general! The shops have been full ( post isolation) with people buying stuff and online purchases have sky rocketed. Now generally speaking I am not a big […]

Top 5: Favourite Covid Purchases!

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Recently we were so excited to be invited to the amazing Illawarra Fly Treetop walk on the South Coast of Australia. It was an experience we will remember for a long time. Entry and drinks were gifted to us, but all opinions are my own. Check out our YouTube video […]

Illawarra Fly TreeTop Walk

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I love giving experiences for gifts, I have written about this before here, here and here. So, when my son turned 12 last year I gifted him a day of abseiling with a local company, Out and About Adventures. It took a while to get it all organised with so […]

First time abseiling.

 in Adventure / Australia / Inspiration / kids recommend / recommendations / Travels with mum blog  tagged abseiling / adventures / family adventure / out and about adventures by (updated 1690 days ago)
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So I have found myself having “NO spend ” weekends. It have enjoyed the challenge to have a great weekend without spending any money and I thought I would share some ideas on how we do this. Firstly our “No Spend” weekends came about not only because some weekends we […]

Saving for Travel Series: No Spend ...

 in family / Inspiration / recommendations / Saving / saving for travel / Travels with mum blog  tagged no spend / saving / saving for travel / weekends by (updated 1725 days ago)
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Mountain Biking for the first time! So we thought we would try mountain biking. The kids were keen… me, not so much. But we were in the best place to give it go, the Kosciousko National Park, with Thredbo mountain bike park being a prime spot for beginners like us! […]

Mountain Biking with kids…

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We were looking for a quick camping trip for the weekend, one that was near water, resonably priced and not too far from home. Mungo Brush Campground in the Myall Lakes National Park ticked all the boxes, so we loaded up the car on Sat morning and drove the hour […]

Mungo Brush Camping

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My greatest dilemma when preparing for my Kokoda trek was what socks to wear!! It kept me up at night, because I had heard horror stories of socks rubbing and forming blisters and feet getting wet because the socks held moisture… I didn’t want my choice of socks to ruin […]

Best Hiking Socks

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New Years Eve 2019 was to be an experience to remember, with an overnight hike along the Main Range Walk in Kosciuszko to be the highlight. In the end it was a New Years eve to remember but not in the way I intended. This is what happened…. We left […]

Main Range Walk Overnight Kosciuszko

 in Adventure / Australia / family / hiking / Inspiration / travel with kids / Travels with mum blog  tagged hiking / hiking with kids / kosciuszko / main range walk / national park by (updated 1767 days ago)