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COLOUR Our world enjoys the full rainbow spectrum of fresh, vibrant, explosive, life-force colours. Amazingly, there are only three primary colours ~ Red, Blue & Yellow – from which all other colours are mixed. The complementary colours, often referred to as being on the ‘other side of the colour wheel’, are simply two of these colours […]
Last Saturday I tweeted a link to a previous post asking: “Do you write, draw or collect in your travel journal?” Ian, of @EagerExistance replied: “write and collect. what would i draw?” So I answered: “Not so much ‘drawing’ as doing impressionistic doodles that’ll jog your memory better than words” Having recently spent a […]
We’re excited to show and share our Special Edition Map Journal as part of an opening spread in a German lifestyle magazine. At the end of last year I was contacted by the German tour operator Dreamaroo who were submitting a seven page article to Linea Futura Magazine. Frances, Dreamaroo’s Munich based Business Development Manager, wanted […]
Do you need reminding? The middle of the year is nigh? This week, in the southern hemisphere it’s mid-winter’s day and so the shortest day of the year or… in the northern hemisphere the 21st June is mid-summer’s day and is the longest day of the year. Either way, half the year has gone! I used to […]
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 […]
