Blue Planet Journey

Caroline with a wallaby at the end of a 50 K bike ride in Port Douglas , Australia. We've returned to Logan , Utah, after 5 months on "the road" (mostly, the sea).  Let me apologize in advance if I pause before trying to answer the question, "How was your trip?"  It is a lot to process, and I am trying to articulate a coherent response.  It's funny how it is easier to comment on 1 specific event than on a trip in toto.  But as I sit in my usual seat in the North Logan Starbucks, I'm having fun reviewing some of the photos from this adventure.  Here are some that haven't found a home, from a mixture of locations. This is the last time we got to meet our dear friend Micki, who passed 2 weeks ago from pancreatic cancer. We were attending the annual meeting of Friends of Hanauma Bay. Caroline at Turtle Bay, North Shore, Oahu. What be this, you may ask?  It's a public urinal in Fremantle, Australia, and a common design down u...

Near Dunedin , NZ Penguin Place rehabilitation facility, for the rare yellow-eyed penguin. To view the yellow-eyed penguin during the molt, you walk into a disguised bunker so the penguins won't try to hide (and expend energy they need to regrow their feathers, since they don't eat during this molting period). The tunnel to the viewing stations. Caroline just ran up the steepest residential street in the world, Baldwin Street . And she's smiling! Fellow travelers looking for adventures in Dunedin.  Great traveling companions! Grounds at Larnach Castle , Dunedin, NZ's only castle. Taiaroa Head lighthouse at entrance to the Otago Peninsula , with ship's shad ow on the headlands. This is also a nesting site for northern royal albatrosses . In Akaroa, looking for the trailhead for Childrens Bay Farm Walkway. Childrens Walkway, about a 3 hour round trip.  Caroline is listening to a Tui . Turn a corner, an...