The last few days of the trip have definitely been my favorite. There is not a lot to complain about when you get to go Island hopping off the coast of eastern Australia. After ending our adventure exploring the Great Barrier Reef our group began to travel to a new island where we would all […]

Post for the week of 3/2 -3/8 (the wifi struggle to get these uploaded was absurd) What a wild and crazy week this turned out to be! The week was chock full of interesting classes. We learned about Australia’s vast wealth of natural resources (mostly from mining), a little bit about the enormous sporting culture, […]

Then and Now; Flashback to knowing nothing Finals have ended and we are now wrapping up a wonderful semester full of adventure and experiences. I am going to take the time to reflect on ‘then’ and ‘now’ and look back on what I have learned in the past three months. THEN I signed up for […]

Over the past few weeks the Australian Lewis and Clark College gang has learned about the basic biology behind a few of the country’s most fascinating natural occurrences. At the beginning of this trip I wrote about Darling Harbour and Nemo’s triage of fellow fish that escaped its sheltered waters back to the Great Barrier […]

One of the things we love about Portland is the food culture, and as a result we’ve been very interested in the similarities and differences between Australian and U.S. approaches to food throughout our stay. In many ways, Australia and the United States have strongly overlapping food cultures. Familiar meats, vegetables, and fruits abound. But […]