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Luging, hiking, swimming and eating
Rowan made all the decisions about what we did yesterday and when. We started off with taking a chair lift up to the top of Sentosa’s luge hill, picking out our helmets, getting into our luge cars and racing down together. Rowan rode with me on our first race and we beat Kevin down the…
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Spectacular Sentosa
Yesterday we arrived back in Singapore and headed straight for our hotel on the island of Sentosa. Originally a military outpost, Sentosa is now a resort and family destination with aquariums, a Universal Studios theme park, water parks, and a whole bunch of other places where families can play. We had a couple of hours…
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Mazes, art and wine
Margaret River has a giant hedge maze, so of course we had to check it out. The boys loved the idea of walking through a life-size maze, especially when they were allowed to lead the way. The cedar hedges are about 3 to 4 metres high and smell wonderful. It took us about 30 minutes…
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Mammoth and Lake Caves
The second half of our road trip to Western Australia’s south took us along the Margaret River Region, from Augusta in the south, to Yallingup in the north. It’s the part of Western Australia where the Southern Ocean meets the Indian Ocean, so there are lots of waves, making it a haven for surfers. We…
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Western Australia’s beautiful south
After a week of sightseeing and lazy beach life in Perth, on Monday we piled into a rented minivan with my sister, brother-in-law, and 3-year-old nephew, and headed south to see some of Western Australia’s forests. Our first stop was the Tingle tree forest and our cabin at Redmond’s Riverside Retreat, where Don and Margo…
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Soaring high
On our last full day in Langkawi we walked 10 minutes down the road from our resort to Gunung Machinchang, the island’s second highest peak. We rode a giant, 2 km cable car to the top, where we stopped at two viewing platforms to look out over the mountainside and the Andaman Sea beyond. The…
