So Many Places... My (Aussie) Bucket List

Since picking up the bus in Mawson Lakes (ADL) in 2012, we have seen many places, and we still haven't seen 100th of Australia.

Nonetheless, I have a Bucket List for places I want to see in Australia. It includes:

• Pink lakes - any or all... there's one in WA, another in SA and another in I *think* Victoria. Or that could be NSW - it was dark and we'd been driving for hours when I spotted the sign.

• Any and all painted silos - we've seen a few of these and I'd really like to get to all the others. The one at Weethalle NSW was brilliant, as were Patchewollock and Brim Silos
  
  
  

• Fraser Island.

• I would LOVE to climb Uluru, but that won't happen. I'll settle for seeing the sun set over the Rock.

• The Sydney Opera House in the Festival of Lights.

• The Aurora Australis. Have to go back to Tassie for that: back to Cockle Creek!

• Ida Bay Railway. Went there as a child, it was in ruins; restored now.

• Puffing Billy again. Had a blast on my first trip.

•  Broome - Cable Beach. Pearls.

• Darwin.

• Kuranda Butterfly House. I loved the little one at Coffs Harbour.

• Mount Gambier again. Blue Lake (it really is that colour, no filters) and Umpherstone Sinkhole.

• Seal Rocks NSW. Beautiful; I'd love to go here again.

•  Murray River 3 or 5 day cruise on a paddle steamer. My Pop did one in the 80's and loved it.

• WA wildflowers.

• Coober Pedy.

• Melbourne again and again and again... Eating exclusively at Crossways (Krishna eatery).

• Great Ocean Road - again. Loved it the first time, even though we were sleeping on the seats of the bus with no AC in 40+ degrees.

• Werribee Estate - the gardens! The mansion!

• Exmouth WA - because I can.

• Mon Repos - baby turtles!

• A sugar cane burn - iconic Aussie experience.

• Ettamogah Pub - I will endure the Sunshine Coast for this.

• Kakadu because it is meant to be beautiful.

• Great Barrier Reef - another Aussie icon. 

• Tamworth - for Dad. 

This is a bit of a *cheat* post. I am writing it at 1 a.m. as I get ready to head out on a 2 week no-phone-no-internet muster. It is, nonetheless, my actual Bucket List, or at least, part thereof. And it gives me an excuse to look at my photos :) I'll schedule it to upload while I am away and get into a rhythm of proper posts once I am home again.