Our Love Affair with Australia: 5-Month Highlights (Brisbane to Tasmania!) Travel Tips

as we get ready to leave Australia we thought we'd write a Little Love Letter to what we think might be our most favorite place we've ever been stay tuned for our love letter to Australia who are we we are Chris and Steve eat walk learn we have been traveling the world for the last 3 years with nothing but our carry-on suitcases and we are going to be getting ready to leave Australia very soon we've been here for 5 months and having such a great time time and we just when we talk about it and we talk about you know what do we want to talk about Australia just some things that made us smile and some things that made us happy and so we wanted to to do our little you know dear Australia we love you letter this is not a Dear John Letter this is a dear this is and and and we were sitting here and we were talking and we're like all right we need to do our YouTube video about Australia and we're like six things to do Australia or all the things to do Australia and we thought you know what there's so many videos out there that do that but none of them really get at what is so great about Australia and I we've talked about this a couple times with other Australians and I don't know about other Americans but certainly for me before I came to Australia I thought Australia was three things it was the opera house a big red rock out in the middle of the Outback and Kangaroos and koalas like kangaroos or koalas I guess that's four things but I never really it it it is Australia is so unexpected and so endearing and there were so many things and as I was talking to Steve I'm like I start crying thinking about all the things I just love about Australia and how I'm going to miss them all I we need to come back yeah yeah yeah so um I go dear Australia dear Australia so we love you we think you're fabulous and I think the first thing I love about Australia so much is Australians are really proud of the fact that their country is very big like it's a big country and they kind of make jokes about tourists coming in and saying you know they say I've got a week and I want to do all these things I'm going to go to Sydney and I'm going to go to the gra perer Reef I'm going to go out to uloo and then I'm going to go down to Melbourne and have coffee and the Australians are like mate yeah mate mate you only have a week and that'd be like saying in the states I want to do Miami New York Chicago Denver and La all in one week you know and I no one would ever recommend that because you'd be flying the whole time so anyway that what but what I really love about Australia it's this huge country right it's about this about this it's a little bit smaller than the us but it's about the same size as the us but the population is only pretty much only on the perimeter and on that perimeter most of it's on the east coast so it goes from Melbourne up to Brisbane is where the majority of the population is and that geography is what maybe the length of the West Coast of California or west like the West Coast California Oregon Washington something like that I mean we could look to see what the kilometers are or the miles are and so you've got this very thin narrow strip of population and the and the depth of that population is maybe 20 miles like you when you go 20 miles in from the ocean in Australia almost anywhere you drive 20 miles due due west or north or whatever of the the of the ocean and you're in the in the country you know so even the thickness of that population except around the city centers is just not big so I when I he what you're saying is that it's a very large country but is actually quite um manageable as far as being able to see some of the major attractions and the major things that you want to do in Australia yeah it's but the point I was trying to make is that everybody lives on the beach like it's a it's a total it's just a big beach I mean certainly there's exceptions to that but it's this big beach and there's this huge there's this huge beach culture and everybody loves the beach you know they walk around Barefoot they go barefoot to the grocer grocery store and they you know they've got their swimm their swimmers on you know and they've got all these really cute words for things and they're really into their life saving stations and the and there's this whole culture around everybody's personal their community life saving station and how everybody supports it and you go to the life Saving Station to get a to get dinner and you support the lifeguards at the life saving station and it's just cool right take a breath we love Australia and we love the beach and there the beaches here here are incredible they are the best beaches that I've seen anywhere everything from white sandy you know miles long beaches to Cliffs and Crags and caves and and stacks sea stacks and I mean every time you go to a beach here you think it's the prettiest beach you've ever been to then you go to the next one the next one and say ah this is number one yeah yeah so and so then of course tach to the beach is the water and all the snorkeling and the surfing and all the things you can do in the water here it's just not nonstop but and it's funny because they've got sharks they got sharks in the rivers and in their in their Harbor and then they've got jellyfish everywhere but it doesn't stop people from loving the water in the beach it's just in their DNA and we had some fabulous experiences visiting the Great Barrier Reef um swimming with uh with eagle um Eagle Rays and black tip sharks so and sea turtles and just yesterday we saw a school of dolphin that were just we were on a fairy and the Dolphins were just following us along they were just it was it was fabulous so and then you know and then the birds I mean the birds are crazy here let talk about the birds every single bird you see here you just it's it's a the equivalent it becomes a Cage bird in the US that's people spend thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars of it's terrible the smuggling we're not we're not condoning smuggling by any means but just the birds everywhere you got black swans and loret and Mala and cuab Buras and all the these just incredibly beautiful large unique Birds even uh they call them the butcher Birds which are black and white birds they look like um they're um salute The Magpie it but um but they have these crazy sounds you know they make these wild sounds and it's just you hear what you're walking down the street and you're like that's a cool bird yeah yeah so yeah and then you know of course there's the Kangaroos and the Wallabees and the pandel we learned like the different sizes of the kangaroo there's kangaroo and then WABE and then pandon Pelon and then the kangaroo rats and all these different marsupial we learned all about marsupial and they have three vaginas and all these crazy things about marsupial we didn't verify this by the way and the aidas you know the the Australian version of a hedgehog and and but to be able to see the amazing amount of nature in the wild is really fantastic and and just just again love uh love Australia and and then the tree I mean before I came here I thought the only Tree in Australia was a was a eucalyptus tree well I didn't know what to expect in fact but but there are eucalyptus trees everywhere and there's many many different varieties of them so you that's a different y I didn't see that one before and then there's then there's you know the Cedars and and all different types of fur trees and and there's uh jungle here and tropical forest and then dry deserty places and then eucalyptus growths I mean you can walk along the coast of of Sydney along the different coastal walks and go through like I don't know 15 different ecosystems in a 20K walk it's just it's it's amazing and I mean I think the most surprising thing to me was the the jungly tropical forest stuff I didn't expect that at all yeah and the food what about the food so let's talk about the food so it's what's funny is you've hear probably have heard about Vite m veite is real and it's everywhere it's funny how every house you go into there may be like this much left in the jar but well I mean a jar lasts like three years teaspoon at a time and it's actually it's pretty good you have to learn see this again a learning experience and how to serve it and how to spread it onto your toast with butter and yeah and how thick you put it on yeah how you order it when you order it you tell them how thick you want your Vite um but then just like um you all the pies so a pie is not like an apple pie it's like a a meat pie yeah like a like a chicken pot pie like a chicken pot pie except different fillings in it and much better crust and stuff and you get them everywhere you get them at the market you get them at the gas station my favorite is the train station has the best pie so there's all you know the I think Australians would fight you to their death on who has the best pie in town and then the lamington bars those coconut yummy coconut tim tams Tim man you know I mean I put on 5 just eating Tim Tam in this the first time I had a Tim Tam I'm like oh oh thanks Bonnie for that oh it's like too sweet and then they just like grow on you they're very addictive yeah and then of course um uh the way Australians eat their hamburgers now we never I didn't have a hamburger but they have they put beets on their burgers they call them Aussie Burgers so you have you have a a Patty of some kind maybe even a fried egg on top so was I now I eat be on top of my veggie burgers that's really good we ate we ate really well here yeah and then I think the the last thing we want to talk about which is so endearing well I I don't know how these two these two don't necessarily I know what she's going to talk about so I'm going to talk about it because it lets you the trucks yeah right they love their trucks here and I'm a truck person I truck you are is this your truck truck boo Bo T four good buddy they no they're they're pickup trucks but the pickup trucks yeah they're called Utes well they're but they're working that's different but the they are working trucks and you know the tradies use them so wait what's a Trad so the the tra any any Tradesman yeah they call them tradies and they're they're very respected and and you know Pro Union and pro worker and and pro construction labor the labor guys here are are great everybody's great everybody's warm and everybody is uh very genuine and just love to the to greet you you know good day the first time I heard good day mate I was like yeah but the but the yeah and they're called Utes go ahead no Utes are different Utes are the cars that are like Cino well I think also like the the the Toyota hux so the Toyota Hilux is like a a what's the what's the equivalent in the US um Tacoma like a Tacoma Toyota Tacoma they call them the hux I think those are Utes too oh well we'll have to look this our viewers will jealous jealous but they have snorkel on them the snorkel because you could be driving through rivers and creeks and and across dust clouds and things that you don't want your your carburetor to get because because all of that is only 10K you know 10 miles maybe from the the ocean so it's like you're in the country and you're out in dirt roads and and and gravel roads in your you with your snorkel with your wearing your mullet yeah eating some Vite exactly listen to ACDC did you know acdc's from from um Melbourne actually anyway this is an absolute Love Letter to Australia we I mean we're we're laughing but we're not joking we I just have to add a couple things I'm wearing my Rip Curl uh hat R Cur is headquartered right here in southern part of Australia also I have my shirt on that was designed by one of the uh uh IND indigenous peoples here their art is amazing I love it love it love it and so some of those do paintings that we saw in the museums of the indigenous tribes and the that the in the 70s there was this whole Awakening of Australian art that came through the indigenous uh route into the museums and some of this artwork is my most favorite in the world this artwork yeah absolutely beautiful so and I'm going to miss you Australia we're just going to have to come back anyway um anything else you want to say about Australia yeah um this these are just things again that just made us smile and made us uh love this country so much and uh and a big thank you to the people here who made us feel so uh so welcome for the last five months that we've been in your country and believe it or not Australia is not just an opera house and just a big red rock just a kangaroo and just a kangaroo it's a if if you if if you think you can't afford to come here we're going to tell you next week in our budget video how you can afford to come here absolutely put it on your list come back if you've been here what were your favorite things to do if you have questions about all the things we did post them below but our love letter big heart out to Australia we will uh we will see you soon ciao good day mate good day

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Published: Sun Apr 07 2024