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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Australia Photo of the Week ~ Uluru (Ayers Rock) Click the link below for more fabulous photos of Uluru… My first sighting of Uluru It was magical 🙂 And if visiting – Don’t forget to check out my hand drawn pictorial Central Australia Map Journals for recording your adventure by dotting your route on the […]
After a 3am start to get to the airport for a 5am lift off to Uluru, we left the coastal humidity of Brisbane and flew into Australia’s heart – the Red Centre. Peering down onto the scrubby outback and gouged channel country from 35,000 feet we flew over flooded Lake Eyre and sparkling salt pans […]
Our Journey Jottings Australia road trip is coming to an end. We’ve travelled from the rugged red rock of Uluru in central Australia and crossed half the continent to the lush green rainforest and reef of tropical north Queensland. This wonderful image by Lin Onus perfectly reflects our trip – A […]
Having packed a few essentials for the trip… We’re off! Background to our Australia adventure: I had some International visitors come to stay the week-end before last who wanted some ideas of what they could do and where they could go to get a feel for Australia in just a few weeks. Before the week-end […]
Australia Photo ~ A Classic Australian Mail Box You’ve got mail! Have you seen a line up of classic Ozzie Mail Boxes? Any photos to share?
Australia Photo ~ Swamp Paperbark Trees, Australia Paperbark trees are so quintessentially Australian, with their peeling trunks. There’s a swampy area I walk past most days. This week I actually stopped to photograph it 🙂
Australia Photo ~ Bush Stone Curlews, Queensland, Australia If you hear a mournful wailing sound in the night, these are the birds responsible for the eerie call. Curlews are nocturnal ground feeding birds, which during the day shelter where their plummage will best camouflage them. This family of birds have taken to resting in the grass just outside our […]
