Queensland is blessed with over 7000km of mainland coastline, so it comes as no surprise that the self-proclaimed Sunshine State has some of the best beaches in Australia. Within the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, which stretches from Bundaberg in the south to Torres Strait in the north, there’s over 900 islands, creating even more [...]
It takes a whole ten minutes after landing on Lady Musgrave Island for me to embarrass myself. My embarrassment becomes more acute the longer I stay on the island and become familiar with its inhabitants. Instinctive and well-intentioned, nevertheless I feel a fool. The ‘water taxi’ deposits campers and their gear on the eastern shore [...]
Are you a cyclist with a desire to escape to sunshine-dappled Queensland at the end of winter? How does a 520km ride through some of north Queensland’s finest country tickle your fancy? It sure… ahem… tickles mine. Here’s a two-wheel adventure holiday that takes riders from the palm fringed beach at Mission Beach (south of [...]
At dawn tomorrow morning three Aussie adventurers will set out on a mammoth challenge. Ben Southall, Patrick Kinsella and Luke Edwards make up the Aussie8 team who will run to the summit of ten of Australia’s highest peaks. Sure, why not? Because they are there, is the answer I like best. These three adventurers will [...]
Turning 50 may be an achievement in itself, one that I can identify with as this siginifcant number looms in my own near future. But identical twins and avid sailors Bradley and Craig Ginnivan,are taking their birthday celebrations on August 14 to the next level. With their birthday occurring in the middle of Airlie Beach [...]
Race notes promised the ultimate multi sport weekend incorporating a paddle, run and ride on tropical Magnetic Island. Enjoy a dirty weekend the organisers encouraged. Sure, why not? For the 300 adventure-fuelled fiends who turned up on Picnic Bay beach post-dawn, the island delivered. And then some. It was dirty alright. It was also brutal [...]
It’s hard to imagine a more divine setting for brushing up on photography skills than in Tasmania’s Tarkine Forest. One of the few wilderness areas that remains much as was eons ago and where nature excels in all her ‘kick-arse’ glory, the Tarkine is three hours west of Launceston and a million miles from urbanity. [...]
The Ghan runs through the heart of Australia’s Red Centre making the three day journey between Adelaide & Darwin. Stopping at Alice Springs and Katherine, this iconic train journey offers an unbeatable view of wide open desert country. From the air-conditioned comfort of Gold and Platinum class carriages, panoramic windows provide a mesermerising view of [...]
Australia’s best wines and winemakers will emerge on the Sunshine Coast for what will be a stellar line up for the tenth anniversary of the Noosa International Food and Wine Festival from 16-19 May 2013. The festival will feature over 200 wines from 40 wineries where the stars of Australian winemaking will share their knowledge [...]
As we stand amid the ancient lands where red sand and white sand country meet, the chirping of the chiming wedgebill seems to calling repeatedly ‘why did you get drunk?’ Against a turquoise sea that contrasts with rich scarlet-hued cliffs, reminiscent of a Ben Shearer painting, we hear stories about the survivors of this tough [...]
“I could have gone to Mauritius,” my friend lamented, reluctantly loading up the wagon for the family’s first ever camping holiday. I knew how she felt. Far more accustomed to plopping down poolside on a day bed than lowering delicately atop an airbed lest I burst the damn thing, camping has always seemed a little, [...]
A new date schedule: that’s the latest news as plans for the spectacular 30th Anniversary edition of Audi Hamilton Island Race Week take shape. Organisers of this unique tropical sailing extravaganza for cruising and racing yachties have decided to shorten the regatta by one day. The Welcome Party, which promises to be something even more [...]
Purpose built for the discerning traveller, Hobart’s newest boutique hotel was inspired by its closest southern continent, Antartica. Salamanca Wharf Hotel has recently opened its doors offering guests a true boutique contemporary apartment hotel accommodation experience in the heart of Hobart’s premier entertainment precinct. Designed and built from scratch between two original John Lee Archer [...]
Predominantly a solo traveler, it’s most unusual to find myself in a Darwin hotel room with three strange men. But this is The Territory and they do things differently here, as I soon discover. Checking into SKY CITY Darwin’s swanky new boutique resort we don’t get off to a great start. Recently opened, the resort [...]
Australia’s first ever ‘MasterChef’ winner and resident cook on Channel Nine’s Today Show, Julie Goodwin, has partnered with Captain Cook Cruises and will be holding three cooking demonstrations for passengers onboard the 4 night Murray River cruise departing Monday 10 June, 2013. In July 2009, Julie Goodwin, wife and mother of three boys, took out [...]
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