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The sun was rising over the horizon as I flipped the switch for the kettle. Unzipping my backpack, I popped in a couple of mangoes, some strawberries and (for a holiday treat) two apricot danish pastries and fruit juice. Downing cups of tea, we slipped on life-jackets, hats, and with sunnies atop, headed out to grab […]
Where do you feel the most content? If you had to name a place or an environment that you feel most at peace in – what surrounds would you choose to put yourself? Urban or country? While cities have their attractions and beauty in a contrived way, nature can rarely be topped – Ask someone […]
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 […]
Road-trip… Did I hear you say Australia Road-trip from Uluru to Cairns? I had three American sisters visiting me in Australia ~ Where should they go and what should they see to get the most out of their four week stay down under? They’d landed in Sydney and spent a few days seeing the main sights 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 […]
The Curtain Fig tree, on the Atherton Tableland in northern Queensland, is an impressive and unique sight! Formed by a little seed being deposited in a nook (or cranny) high in a host tree, roots sprouted and made their way to the soil far, far below. Embedded in the ground and enriched by the soil’s nutrients it […]
5 Families of Lizards in Australia There are five main families of lizard in Australia making up over 500 species ~ Geckos Skinks Goannas or Monitors Legless or Snake Lizards and the Dragons. Geckos Geckos are seen the most frequently if you inhabit a tropical home in Australia, as with sticky padded feet they run up and […]
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 […]
When on a road trip in Oz, there are certain Australian icons one not only hopes to see, but expects to see. Like classic Australian road signs not encountered in other parts of the world… To heritage icons relating to European settlement, such as station homesteads established by pioneering explorers… …and their introduced farming livestock […]
After days travelling in Central Australia over miles of red dirt and endless plains… …we turned left at Charters Towers (135 km short of hitting the east coast) in tropical north Queensland and entered the lush green world of the Atherton Tablelands. What a different landscape! Malanda, our destination, is synonymous with milk and cheese, and […]
