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How to experience the fun of an outback road trip in just 3 days Why should the grey nomads, gap-year’ers and young families doing the big lap of Australia have all the fun? If you can’t take 3 months off to hit the road – Try taking 3 days – You’d be amazed what you […]
Funny Australian Signs from Outback Queensland There can’t be too many places you go on holiday, or for a break, where your destination appears so intent on ensuring you’re left wanting for nothing, as on my recent visit to the Gemfields in central Queensland’s outback. First port of call – “The Willy Wash”, which comes decked out […]
“All the buckets had been taken except for one” John recounted. “‘Lucky Last’ I called it” and his eyes crinkled up and his cheeks reddened as he chuckled to himself. Having paid the princely sum of $8 for a bucket of wash, (many places here in the gemfields of central outback Queensland sell pre-dug wash […]
It was nearly midnight. I went to flick the switch on my computer for the night, and yawning took one last look at my twitter stream. I love the Territory – The Territory is where I first landed in Australia, and was all I saw of the Antipodes on that initial trip Down Under. Working (and […]
Australia Road Trip Stamps Have you seen these fun Australia Post Road Trip stamps? Released on the 18th September 2012, the collector’s first day of issue is postmarked ‘Wandering, WA 6308′. Australia Post says on their website that Australians and road trips go hand-in-hand – partly as a rite of passage, but partly out of […]
or… The Dry Red Centre to the Tropical Green of Cairns At the end of last year I drove 3,000km (2,000 miles) from Yulara at Uluru in the centre of Australia across the Barkly and Atherton Tablelands to Cairns. (Click the link if you want a full breakdown of what it cost!) A journey from […]
Millstream Falls is reputedly the widest single drop waterfall in Australia. It is situated less than 5km from Ravenshoe (Queensland’s highest town) on the Atherton Tablelands in Australia’s tropical north, or… as the sign below points out: 718km as the crow flies from Mt Isa 1,376km from Alice Springs in the red centre 1,704km from Coober […]
Have you driven Australia’s remote outback roads? Long and seemingly endless, they’re bordered by an expanse of bush vegetation that imperceptibly changes until there’s a sudden realisation you’re driving through a different vegetation zone. (More endless outback road images can be had in my Barkly Tablelands post 😉 ) Some might call the landscape monotonous, but sitting back at the […]
The Barkly Tableland covers 21% of the Northern Territory in a swathe from Mount Isa just east of the Queensland/NT border, west to Daly Waters. After a night camping at the Devils Marbles under a waning full moon (having spent the evening light exploring the rock formations scattered across these beautiful 1,800 hectares of Australian outback) […]
The Devils Marbles (Karlu Karlu) are located on the Stuart Highway, 400km north of Alice Springs and 100 km south of Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory. The first known reference to the name ‘Devils Marbles’ was by John Lewis in 1872 during the construction of the overland Telegraph line – His account reads: “We […]
