Trawlers Rock
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. 
Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Mark Twain
  • Greetings !
  • Crew
  • Oahu Oct 2024
  • Big Island Oct 2024
  • Maui 2024
  • Azores Sept 2023 - Sao Miguel
  • Azores - Faial, Pico
  • Azores - Terceira
  • Winter/spring 2023
  • Oklahoma Road Trip April 2023
  • Quick Bahamas Cruise Dec 2022 and Christmas in New Englandd
  • Alaska August 2022 Part 1
  • Alaska Part #2
  • Alaska Part #3
  • The rest of 2020
  • Puerto Aventuras Feb. 2020
  • Switzerland Oct. 2019
  • Switzerland Part #2 Oct 2019
  • Italy Oct 2019 part #1
  • Italy Oct 2019 Part #2
  • Italy Oct 2019 part #3
  • spring/summer 2019
  • Boat trip to Georgia April 2019
  • Tanzania Feb. 2019
  • Tanzania Part #2
  • Tanzania Part #3
  • Zanzibar
  • europe 2018
  • Moscow Sept 2018
  • Volga River Cruise part #1
  • Volga River Curse Part #2/St Petersburg Russia
  • Stockholm Oct. 2018
  • Hamburg Germany 2018
  • Denmark 2018
  • India 2018
  • India Part 2
  • India Part 3
  • India Part 4
  • India Part 5
  • India Part 6
  • India Part 7
  • Kids visit Jan 2018
  • Sedona Dec. 2017
  • Roatan Honduras - Nov. 2017 week #1
  • Roatan Honduras - Nov. 2017 Week #2
  • Kids - summer 2017
  • China - March 2017 Part #1 Shanghai, Yangzte River Cruise
  • China Part #2 Chongqing, Xi'an and Beijing
  • South America November 2016 - Atacama Chile
  • South America November 2016 Easter Island Chile
  • South America November 2016 Santiago Chile and Buenos Aires Argentina
  • South America November 2016 Ushuaia and Antarctica part #1
  • South America November-December 2016 Antarctica, Ushuaia and Buenos Aires Argentiina
  • Hurricane Matt - Oct. 2016
  • Summer Cruising - July 2016 Cuttyhunk, Judith Point, Mystic Seaport and Jamestown
  • Outter Banks get away with grandkids..... June 2016
  • Crewsing with Crew - 2016
  • April 2016 : Boat Trip - Ft Pierce for MTOA Rendezvous
  • Thailand - Bangkok, Jon's 70th , Hintook River Camp Jan. 2016
  • Thailand - Pitsanulok, Phrae, Chiang Rai, Chiang Mai Jan 2016
  • Thailand - Chiang Mai, Bangkok Jan. 2016
  • Vietnam - Hanoi Feb. 2016
  • Vietnam - Halong Bay, Hue, Hoi An Feb. 2016
  • Vietnam -Hoi An, Nha Trang, Dalat Feb. 2016
  • Vietnam - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) Feb. 2016
  • Europe - Amsterdam Oct. 2015
  • Europe 2015 - Prague
  • Europe 2015 - Beginning of Viking River Cruise - Budapest Hungary and Vienna Austria
  • Europe 2015 - Cruise - Melk, Passau and Regensburg
  • Europe 2015 - Nuremberg and Munich Germany
  • Europe 2015 - Fussen - southern Germany
  • Europe 2015 - Romantic Highway - Wurzburg and Rothenburg - Dusseldorf Germany
  • Here we go again - boat trip 2015 Part One Palm Coast FL. to the Keys
  • Boat trip 2015 part #2
  • Boat trip 2015 Part 3 and spring in FL.
  • Trip to Portland Oregon and Holidaze 2014
  • More fall 2014 and R and R to Mexico
  • Canada Road trip Part One Sept. 2014
  • Canada Road Trip Part two Sept. 2014
  • West Bound - Missouri and family - August 2014
  • Our new grandson - Scott Bernard Reardon V and quick trip to Disney !
    • Boat trip 2014 - heading south !! >
      • Rotorua to Whitianga to Coromandel to Auckland - North Island New Zealand
      • Marathon - 2014 - Part One
      • MTOA Southern Rendezvous 2014 - Fernandina Beach FL
  • Marathon - 2014 Part Two
  • Marathon - 2014 - Part Three
  • Fall 2013 - Missouri, Savannah, Disney World
  • Australia and New Zealand - Sept./Oct 2013 - Adelaide Australia
  • The Outback - Australia
  • Port Douglas and the Great Barrier Reef - Australia
  • Christchurch to Hokitika to Fairlie South Island New Zealand
  • Fairlie to Twizel to Queenstown - South Island New Zealand
  • Hobbiton New Zealand for all of the Lord of the Rings fans !
  • Queenstown to Te Anau to Dunedin - South Island New Zealand
  • Dunedin to Oamaru to Christchurch
  • Christchurch to Wellington to Napier to Rotorua - North Island New Zealand
  • A little boating adventure - Spring 2013
  • Spring trip - the 2013 Rendezvous is here - arrgghhhhh...
  • "Crewsing with Crew" 2013
  • Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 - Portland Oregon
  • Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 Virginia City and Nevada City Montana
  • Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 Jackson Hole and The Tetons
  • Wild Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 Yellowstone Part #1
  • Wild West Trip Sept.2012 Yellowstone Part #2
  • Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 Cody Wyoming
  • Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 Devil's Tower and South Dakota
  • Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 South Dakota
  • Wild West Trip Sept. 2012 Park City Utah
  • Moondog is Home !! June 2012
  • Louisiana May - 2012
  • Louisiana - a few more pics
  • "Crewsing with Crew" 2012
  • MTOA Rendezvous - April 2012
  • MTOA rendezvous - part two
  • Raleigh NC - April to meet Cade !
  • Feb., March and April boat trip 2012 - part one
  • Boat trip 2012 - part two
  • Boat trip 2012 - Part three
  • Boat trip 2012 - part four
  • Getaway to Darien Georgia - Jan. 2012
  • Playa Del Carmen - November 2011
  • Lindsay and Scott's Wedding June 2011 Part one
  • Wedding Part 2
  • NYC June 2011
  • Alabama and Baseball trip May 2011
  • March and April 2011 boat trip - part one
  • Boat trip 2011 - part two
  • Boat trip 2011 - Part three
  • Freeport Bahamas Feb. 2011
  • Trip to France - Sept. 2010 - Paris
  • France 2010 -Normandy
  • France 2010 - Barge trip - Brittany
  • France 2010 - Barge trip -Part 2
  • France 2010 - Provence
  • France - Provence part #2
  • France 2010 - Cote D'Azur
  • Space Shuttle Shuffle Cruise - May 2010
  • Mini Florida Vacation April 2010
  • MTOA rendez vous April 2010
  • March and April 2010 boat trip - Part One
  • Boat trip 2010 - Part Two
  • Boat trip 2010 - Part Three
  • Isla Mujeres - Nov. 2009
  • Bermuda June 2009
  • March and April boat trip 2009 - Part one
  • Boat trip 2009 - part two
  • Boat trip 2009 - part three
  • Boat trip 2009 - part four
  • Boat trip 2009 - part five
  • Boat trip 2009 - part six
  • Boat trip 2009 - part seven
  • Boat trip 2009 - part eight
  • Cabarete Dominican Republic - November 2008
  • Our first granchild - Blake born 10-11-08
  • Cape Cod to Florida 2008 - part One
  • Cape Cod to Florida 2008 - Part two
  • Barre and David's wedding October 2007
Sat. 9-20-2013, Adelaide Australia

We are off on a new adventure to Australia and New Zealand to celebrate our 20th anniversary !  We spent our actual anniversary on 9-18-13 at the very romantic Country Inn and Suites at the Orlando Airport complete with an even more romantic at the bar of T.G.I.F.  The only topper to this was spending my birthday on 9-19-13 on an airplane en route to Adelaide. I should mention we had a direct flight to Adelaide via Orlando to San Francisco to Seoul to Singapore to Adelaide.  A mere 30 hours later plus one day as we had crossed the international date line we arrived in Adelaide. Even though we flew first class – 30 hours on an airplane is a very loooong time !  We arrived at our hotel in Adelaide at about 8:30 AM to be told our room would not be ready till about noon time – moan, groan and grumble then off we set to see the great city of Adelaide by foot. We decided to explore the shopping area, the zoo and the botanical gardens.  We buzzed through the shopping area – no reason to shop as my suitcases were already over the weight limit when we arrived. Next onto the botanical gardens – beautiful until it started to rain. We embraced the rain like the New Englanders that we are and ran full speed to the zoo to seek some cover and see the pandas. Once at the zoo I had to blink twice when I read a sign that indicated the pandas could not be viewed as they were mating – What ?? Surely this was a joke. To add insult to our plight, we then learned that the pandas only have two days a year to breed, and yep you guessed it, this year is today 9-20-13 and tomorrow 9-22-13 – wow…….. the other highlight to the day was there were kids everywhere – OK, it is a Sat.  Then to my horror we learned that it is school vacation week. Maybe it was the jet lag, but we managed to walk about 100 miles in the wrong direction, but fortunately by the time we got back to the hotel at about 3:00 our room was ready. We got to our room and settled in, made some touring plans, then headed out for an early diner at 6:00. We walked and hemmed and hawed over what restaurant to go to, then finally settled on an Italian restaurant. After being seated and waiting for about a half hour, we learned Something New (SN) #1. After  you are seated and given a menu, it is your job to go to a window and order, you are then given a flag with a number that you set on your table. The food is delivered to your table when ready. This must be the reason there is no tipping in Australia and New Zealand.  We were a bit shocked that a draft beer was $8.00 and a cheese pizza was $22.00 (Australian dollars that is) but we were tired, and ready to get some sleep. We are now back to our hotel, day one is done, and we are looking forward to some serious exploring tomorrow. One thing we did notice is that everyone wears the old throw back flip flops that are made of rubber and we use to call them  thongs.  Well, they still call them thongs. 
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Who knew ? Airplanes serve birthday cakes !
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Finally we have arrived !
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Adelaide botanical gardens
Monday, Sept. 22, 2013 – Last night Adelaide

Sunday AM we were up early and decided to get breakfast next door to the hotel and down an alley at a restaurant that looked several steps down from IHOP.  We sat and were given the menus.  Surely 19.00 for pancakes, 21.00 for waffles is a joke – but no…….  We settled on a cup of coffee each, we spilt 2 scrambled eggs, and each had an order of toast. Phew – only $24.00.  SN #2 – Australia is expensive !!!!  SN #3 – quite the experience trying to order a cup of coffee with milk – the girl kept saying, yes, but what kind of coffee do you want ? Although we were all speaking English,  ordering the coffee was an impossible task. Finally another staff person came to assist, understood that I wanted a cup of coffee with some milk in it, and informed that what I wanted was a Flat white.  When I apologized for not understanding, I was told SN #4 – “no worries mate !”  After our brekky, we were off to explore.  We decided to take a city bus to the port.  After trying to get on about 6 buses in row and being told it was not the right bus, an hour later we finally got on the right bus and off we went.  We arrive at the small port area, and promptly decide to take a three hour cruise on the Torres River along with every school age child in Australia. After the cruise we got lunch – $48.00 for a small green salad, a hamburger and two draft beers seemed like a bargain after breakfast. OK – not too much more talk about prices – you get the drift, it is expensive to eat and drink here – we even looked at the McDonalds menu and were shocked to see a soda as $4.00, a hamburger was $8.00 and a small fry was $4.50. I noticed Jon starting to get a little twitchy, I think he will be needing allot more oil than he intended for the ol’ rusty wallet. Jon was especially twitchy when we went the liquor store SN #5 – called a bottle shop, and we bought a fifth of Smirnoff vodka for $40.00. We took a bus back to town, then boarded a tram car to head to Glenelg beach.  I discovered that sunny Sundays in early spring are an extremely popular day for every person in Adelaide as well as all people living in the surrounding 500 miles to go to the beach. We settled in at a ocean side pub, then took the tram back to our hotel and got in about 6:00 PM.  We walked around the corner to a Thai restaurant for dinner, then early to bed for our first official tour. The morning was a city tour along with a visit to the local Haighs chocolate factory, a visit to the Adelaide Hills with panoramic views of the city, then on to Hahndorf which was a delightful German town.  We ate lunch in Hanhdorff, and SN #6 – restaurants all have old bottles that they fill up with water that you can take to your table, and the water in Australia is delish !  The second part of the tour was to the Barossa valley for wine tasting/ touring of 3 wineries. When you have 20 people on a bus each tasting is a bit of a “Splash and Dash.” Each winery had about ten kinds of wine, you could sample whatever you wanted, Most people would sample 2 - 3 kinds of wine but not Jon and I. We were determined to sample and enjoy all that Barossa valley had to offer, and by golly we did ! We enjoyed the beautiful scenery and an about a three hour round trip drive, as well as the 30 different wines we sampled. I must confess we did snooze a “wee while” on the return trip but we rallied for our last night tonight which consisted of quick dinner and we are ready to go to bed now at 8:00 PM. Tomorrow we fly to Alice Springs which will be the starting point of our three day tour of the outback. We will be meeting our friends Dick and Dorothy from Alabama who will be flying in from Sydney. D& D are our travelling buddies that we met while touring Central Mexico on a train and living with locals in villages along the way. We have also travelled to Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands as well as to France with D& D.  SN #6 – instead of saying “Good for you” someone told me ”Good on ya mate” today – love it ! 

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Jon pondering the $19.00 pancakes
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This little boy saw this man taking pictures and proceeded to ask the man to take his picture -
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Our jolly captain who was a hoot !
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Torres river cruise
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My beau and I
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Glenelg Beach
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Surfers and Australia just go together
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A bottle shop is a window service liquor store
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Adelaide hills
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My mate and I
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The famous sheepdog stare
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The lovely Hahndorf Inn - German village
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Barossa Valley - vineyards as far as the eye could see….
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Getting ready to sample the wine
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I would like my basement to have these….
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The jet lag is really kicking in here….
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Palm trees and vineyards…..
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I love the shades of green an turquoise
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