Brimming with culture, history and art the Tiwi Islands are only a day trip from Darwin in Australia’s north. Australia has many incredible islands – Fraser, Kangaroo, Rottnest, Magnetic, Phillip, Lord Howe, among others. Most feature on bucket lists around the country, but here’s one more for your list: the Tiwi Islands. Located just 80-kilometres […]
Marble Bar Simply Sizzles!
There is more than soaring temperatures to get your barometer rising in the tourist hot spot of Marble Bar. Monica McInnes explores the sizzle in Australia’s hottest town. During our three-month road trip through some of Australia’s most rugged, remote and remarkable landscapes, we occasionally encountered travellers who mentioned the town of Marble Bar. We […]
The Land Before Time
In a small corner of Queensland’s vast outback, you will pass through lands once inhabited by dinosaurs, but as Monica McInnes discovered, dinosaur hunting isn’t just for the kids. Imagine mustering sheep across the cracked black soil of western Queensland and stumbling across a dinosaur bone that’s been pushed to the surface from the water […]