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I have read that some parents will go to great lengths to remain connected to their children once their precious babies reach those dreaded teenage years, but I never really imagined myself as one of those sorts. That is, until I found myself knee-deep in primordial crocodile-infested swamp mud. Carter could not stop grinning; he […]

 The car pulls to a stop. A tree with branches stretching almost straight out above us provides shade. Seed pods, rotten fruit and leaves are sprinkled over the dirt. There awaits a man; skin of coffee, curly hair down to the upper back, and dressed in shorts and a T-shirt. Sunglasses hide his eyes. Holding […]

Hello folks! It’s reporter K again! I’m here to tell you about my travels in Australia. Actually my colleagues will be covering most of the sites so I only have one to write about: The Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest reef in the world. It is 1250 miles long and […]

Penguins come in a surprising range of sizes, but the very cutest is without a doubt the tiny Fairy Penguin. These little guys are the smallest of the bunch, standing only one foot tall and weighing in at just three pounds. The Fairy Penguin, or “Little Blue,” is native to the coastlines of Australia and […]

     YEAH, C’MOOON DEMONS! WOOOOOOO! It was The Melbourne Demons versus the Sydney Swans! We were barracking (as the Aussies say) the DEMONS!!!! The Demons are a scrappy team, their fans are generalized as the “shout-out-mistakes-and-comments-while-glugging-beer-and-gobbling-chips” kind of people. But that’s just a few of them. Actually, pretty much everyone was shouting comments, myself included, […]

     From Sydney we headed down to Melbourne – Australia’s “other” big city located at the very southern tip of the landmass.  It sits at the same latitude as Capetown or Buenos Aires and looks south toward the Tasmanian island and Antarctica.  Sydney has a population of 4.5 million and Melbourne is just behind at […]

Sydney was all about catching our breath after the craziness in Japan.  We checked into the Shangri-La hotel, where we had the good fortune to be greeted by customer manager extraordinaire Sabina.  She heard the story and promptly upgraded us into their Governor’s Suite. This is the size of our Paris apartment, raised to the 34th floor […]

On the behind the scenes tour we get to touch, hold, and feed the animals, and animals in Australia are especially strange. That is because Australia is very hot so the creatures have to adapt themselves in order to survive. We met our guide Paul at ten and said hello to the three other people. […]

     THE LESSON We met our friends the Walters: Darin and Alison, and their kids: Oscar (12), Maya (10), and Hugo (5). Today, I was learning how to surf. Darin gave me a lesson on the beach. We used his surfboard on the sand instead of trying in the water. Darin told me several rules: […]

     Where is Piggy touring today? Send your answey to me at katherine@365saturdays.org. Last week’s answer: Piggy was in the Haneda Airport after the 9.0 Sendai Earthquake