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Many Australians dream of doing the “Big Lap”* at some point in their lives – (* a road trip that goes right around Australia, which if you keep to the main highways and don’t deviate, is about 14,000km/8,700 miles) So can you imagine doing it not once, but 50 times? The Big Lap Meet Graham, who […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 🙂
Natural Bridge is an arch of basalt that spans Cave Creek, in SE Queensland, Australia. Water pouring down the creek bed over millions of years has eroded and worn through a thin layer of basalt so it now cascades through an opening in the roof of the cave leaving a natural arch bridge spanning the […]
Today, we not only meet people in real life, we also form friendships across the world through the Ethernet via Social Media. And what’s even more fun is when these friendships are solidified in the flesh! This week I met Michela Fantinel for the first time face to face. I’ve ‘known’ Michela for over a year […]
Australia Photo ~ Strangler Fig engulfing its host Photographed on the lower slopes of Wollumbin (Mt Warning NP) I’ve also photographed another stunning example of a strangler fig at Natural Arch from which I’ve extracted and copied the below description:- “Strangler figs start as an epiphyte, meaning a seed is in most cases bird deposited in a […]
Australia Photo ~ Wollumbin ~ Mt Warning ~ Cloud Catcher This photo of Mt Warning in northern NSW, Australia is taken coming over the range from Natural Bridge in Queensland into the Tweed Valley. The peak of Mt Warning is a volcanic plug and stands proud in the centre of the caldera. Mt Warning was […]
