Stepping back in time aboard a historic tall ship is a glorious way to experience Sydney Harbour at dusk. The Thirsty Travellers originally booked a cruise with Sydney Tall Ships for VIVID Sydney, but our adventure was cancelled due to COVID-19 lockdown. We skipped the option of a refund and chose to pay a little extra…

Narrabeen Headland Trail is a beautiful part of Sydney’s Bicentennial Coastal Walk to explore, filled with spectacular scenery and the bonus of a “secret” beach, called Turimetta. We kicked off our adventure with lunch at a cafe called Nourished, which is nestled under a stand of Norfolk Pines near Narrabeen Bridge. The cafe does an…

Spending three months in lockdown has required a little creativity to satisfy our travel bug. Fortunately our local LGAs are filled with stunning beauty, so we’ve been sating our wanderlust on weekends by exploring beach headlands. Killarney Point might not be the first destination on your beach bucket list, but the Garigal National Park is…

We are surrounded by the ocean on our last full day of the cruise, so we decide to sleep in until 6.30am. It’s a laidback day, filled with food, snoozing, fishing and slide shows. There’s a photo competition among the passengers that is fiercely fought. Among our favourites are some of the amazing reflections we’ve…

We wake on Day 9 of our Reef Prince cruise at mouth of King George River and eat an early breakfast while we wait for high tide so we can cross over the sandbar. Larger cruise boats can’t get over the sandbar and send tenders up the river instead to the famed King George Falls….

The Reef Prince drops anchor in Vansittart Bay at 3am on Day 8 of our cruise and we wake to another glorious sunrise. At 7.45am, the tender takes us across to a shell-scattered beach and we walk over the dunes and a salt flat to the wreckage of an airplane from World War 2, which…

It’s an early start on Day 7 of our cruise aboard the Reef Prince – we’re in the tenders at 6.30am for a tour of the stunningly beautiful Hunter River. Flocks of corellas and brolgas swoop over our heads and we catch a glimpse of a pom-pom tailed short-eared rock wallaby. The air is blissfully…

As day six of our cruise aboard the Reef Prince dawns we watch another gorgeous sunrise over the bow at Careening Bay, then head inside for a hot breakfast of bacon and scrambled eggs. Soon afterwards we’re back in the tenders to explore Prince Regent Nature Reserve. Hammerhead sharks swim past the boat as we…

We wake on day five of our Reef Prince cruise in the Prince Regent River and wander onto the deck to watch the sun rise. It’s such a serene, beautiful time of day, After breakfast, a boatload of passengers go fishing, while another group head off on a scenic tour of Camp Creek. The fishermen…