A few travel musings of places/things I would like to see, including those from previous bucket lists not yet achieved
Previous Bucket Lists
Places/things I would like to achieve on my travels.
2014 Bucket List
- Throw myself out a plane skydiving on the east coast
- Scuba Dive the Great Barrier Reef
- Road trip the Northwest of Australia from Shark Bay to Darwin
- Go to Cairns and sail up to Cape York
- Go to Japan. Visit many friends there and eat lots of sushi!
- Find the Blue Mountains, Kangaroo Valley and Canberra
- Drive the Nullabor
- Become settled somewhere and live in an actual flat rather than a hostel
- Buy a round the world multi city ticket for the way home to Scotland
- Step foot onto a new continent
Australia Bucket List
With a plan to do a ‘figure of 8’ round Australia, up the east coast, through the middle then up the west, my list of places to see when I left the UK was:
- Melbourne
- Brisbane
- Uluru
- Whitsunday’s
- Cairns
- Port Douglas
- Sydney
- Kangaroo Island
- Philip Island
- Great Ocean Road (Geelong to Warrnambool)
- Sapphire Coast (New South Wales coast)
- Grand Pacific Drive (Sydney to Woolongong)
- Blue mountains and Katoomba falls
- Bondi beach
- Kangaroo Valley
Things to do:
- Skydive
- Learn how to scuba dive on the Great Barrier Reef
- Learn a language
- Take a yoga class in Byron Bay
- See an Aussie Rules Match
Melbourne Bucket List
What I hope to achieve whilst staying in Melbourne:
- Scale the heights of the Eureka Tower
- See the penguins on Philip island
- Find the Southernmost point at Wilson promontory
- See a film in ACMI and the Rooftop cinema
- Eat a meal on Degraves Street
- Visit Yarra bend park
- Stand in the Shrine of remembrance
- Take a day trip to Queenscliff
- Eat all you can eat dumplings in the Dumpling house
- Get chilly in Chill on Ice
- Do a free yoga class in Federation Square
- Do a neighbours tour
European Bucket List
- Watch a Shakespeare play in the Globe Theatre in London
- Go to Saint Jorioz in France with timtams in hand
- Take a Campervan trip round Scotland. This has to include a stop at Applecross
- Stand in Pompeii before it disappears
- Visit many Tasmania Tour buddies in various countries
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This is an incredible bucket list! I hope you accomplish it all!
Not quite! But has certainly guided some direction :-). Good to have goals and things to put on a 2015 bucket list ;-). Thanks for checking out my blog 🙂