If you’ve read last week’s post on sun safety and the effect of traditional (i.e. chemical) sunscreens on our oceans and your health, then you might be wondering what reef safe sunscreen you should use. Lucky for you, I have spent the last three years trying way too many reef safe sunscreen options to find… Read More Reef Safe Sunscreen Reviews
There are two things that most everyone knows about Australia: 1) that this is a country of beaches and ocean lovers given the sheer amount of coastline and 2) that the sun is so blazing lava hot it will fry pasty European skin to Melanoma status in no time (and, if you are lucky enough… Read More A Sunburnt Country: Sun Safety in Australia
It has been ten days since Kane and I returned from Malaysia and I think I’ve let my complicated thoughts and feelings percolate enough to put fingers to keyboard and write some musings on our time in this complex country. When we booked our flights to Kuala Lumpur (KL), I really knew nothing about Malaysia.… Read More Musings on Malaysia
Travel post-COVID is more expensive than it was before the pandemic hit, there’s just no way around it. Once you throw in the hundreds of dollars of testing costs, increased airfare, and harder to find accommodation, well the price tag adds up fast. We flew to Malaysia as soon as the borders opened to international… Read More Malaysia Flashpacker Budget 2022