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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 […]
I’ve been tagged! Tagged by RedNomaOz of Amazing Australian Adventures to take part in a 7 Super Shots travel blogging game. If you had to sum up your most amazing travel experiences in just seven photos, could you do it? Well… No! Travel is about experiences and one photo rarely tells the whole story, so in a […]
Deadlines send shivers down my spine. Why? It’s not the deadline itself. The finish line is where all the glory happens – and it’s time for celebration. But if you have a deadline, you also have to start. And that’s the wriggle worthy part. Where the true discomfort lays ~ It’s the start-line ~ more than the dead-line. […]
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 […]
Charters Towers in 1890 was Queensland’s second largest town (population 30,000) and referred to by locals as ‘the World‘, due to its cosmopolitan nature and the fact that anything one might desire was there, so why travel anywhere else! In 1907 Charters Towers was proclaimed a city. Today, about 8,000 people call Charters Towers home (Charters […]
It started like any other Monday at our Journey Jottings island office. Phil, our Customer Service Manager, was making telephone calls to some of our 500 or so retailers across Australia to check stock levels of our Journey Jottings products … Updating records in the database, creating invoices and passing them onto to the packing section […]
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 […]
Photo of the week ~ My recent trip to Australia’s red centre was awesome! Here’s the route we took plotted on my Central Australia pictorial map journal with tales jotted in the bordered boxes around the outside… simply summarizing our trip on a single sheet and… …highlighting our holiday adventures 🙂 Do you jot down a few […]
Have you had something ‘bad’ happen? Which at the time felt like the ‘end of the world’ but a while later you’ve said… “That was the luckiest day ever… If it wasn’t for that happening, I’d never have ended up on this path!” Such as.. The day our working visa application for Sweden was refused. We’d […]
