Stirring creativity at The Other Art Fair

If you like mixing your art with your cocktails then you’ll love The Other Art Fair Sydney. The Thirsty Travellers dropped down to The Cutaway at Barangaroo for opening night of the fair, which provides visitors the opportunity to discover and buy contemporary art direct from emerging artists, with 109 artists selected to exhibit across…

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Celebrating the Southern Swan’s 100th birthday

Maritime treasure the Southern Swan is celebrating her 100th anniversary in January 2022. Part of the Sydney Tall Ships fleet, the historic vessel will spend her birthday month hosting a series of events and cruises on Sydney Harbour. Ships rarely survive 100 years and even fewer mark the milestone in active service, but the Southern…

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Twilight cruising with Sydney Tall Ships

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…

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Sydney headland walks: Turimetta Beach

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…

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Sydney headland walks: Flat Rock Beach

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…

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24 hours in Darwin

The Thirsty Travellers had never been to Darwin before, so it was exciting to get a brief chance to explore the city following our Kimberley cruise on the Reef Prince. Our hotel was just a block from Mitchell Street, which was going off like a frog in a sock, with loud music pouring from various…

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Cruising the Kimberley: dinner under the stars

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…

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Cruising the Kimberley: King George Falls

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….

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Cruising the Kimberley: WW2 plane wreck & Bradshaw art

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…

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Cruising the Kimberley: exploring crystal beaches

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…

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