Every Spring at the end of May the Ridges Santuary organizes the Door County Festival of Nature, celebrating the natural beauty of the Door Penisula. This year I went to the dinner and three of the 64 nature experiences offered. Dinner featured organic meats from Waseda Farms and local greens. We ate at the About … Continue reading Door County Festival of Nature

Under the guidance of our pilot Gary Sanderson, the little Chieftain plan carrying seven passengers bounced through its final stops in the little town of Bourke for lunch and then dropped off two passengers in another town.  The sun was setting as we flew over the cliffs of the Blue Mountains in the Gardens of … Continue reading Birdsville, Australia to Door County Wisconsin, USA

Birdsville is one of the hottest and most isolated places in the world.  We flew east from Alice Springs over 1,000 sand dunes that made distinct furrows going north-south through the Simpson Desert below us: The red sand seemed to go on and on forever below us.  In reality, it was just a two-hour flight, and … Continue reading Birdsville

What is all the fuss about a big rock in the middle of the desert? I was about to find out. 30 years ago there was nothing there but a dirt road and some campsites. We boarded the plane in Alice Springs after breakfast and flew for over an hour to cover the 500 miles. … Continue reading Uluru (Ayers Rock)

Day seven landed us in the quiet city of Darwin. This was where the wedding in the beautiful movie "Top End Wedding" was supposed to take place. I caught the entire downtown from the plane. There wasn't any roaring traffic outside our hotel. We had the day on our own and went for a walk … Continue reading Darwin to Kununarra to Broom Days 7-10; Australia by Heron Tour.

We slept well in the peace and quiet far from city streets. We had breakfast at 8:00 and got in the van to the boat at 8:40. The road to the dock was closed to tourists because it was underwater but the tour guide had permission to use it. The van was very high and … Continue reading Kakadu National Park Day 6 Australia by Heron Tour

After a 30 minute flight from Undara we landed on the small plane side of the cairns airport and taxied over by the flying doctors hanger. We finally had excellent phone and internet service. If you come to Cairns the thing to do is to take an excursion to the Great Barrier Reef but we'd … Continue reading Cairns

This was a very long flying day. We flew out of Cairns at 6:30 am. The sun was just rising in the sky. We flew north towards the Torres Strait Islands 157 islands only 18 are inhabited. The flight lasted for almost three hours. As we got closer I was astounded by the aquamarine color … Continue reading Australia by Heron Day 5, Cairns to Horn Island to Kakadu National Park

They unlocked the gate of the Historic Quantas hanger in Longreach at the Quantas museum where the airline had its start. Our pilot was waiting. We boarded and flew for almost two hours. Since there wasn't any phone service at the airport the pilot flew low over the resort to announce our arrival. The airstrip … Continue reading Undara Experience and Undara Volcanic National Park