From modest beginnings, Gladstone has developed into one of the most substantial and commercially successful harbour cities in Australia. It is the principal port of Central Queensland, a region of some 117,800 sq km straddling the Tropic of Capricorn. ‘Capricornia’ contributes more than $21 billion to the Queensland economy every year through agriculture, accounting for […]
Dawdling Days
It was an inauspicious start to a journey that had been on the drawing board for many months, for when the day of departure arrived, so too did illness. Not to be deterred by a touch of misery, I popped a couple of painkillers, clambered into the passenger’s seat of the campervan and, with a […]
The Wild Side of the City
The mirrored surface of the black water shimmered almost imperceptibly as a bunyip raised its scaly head through the congestion of waterlily leaves. If such a creature existed, the shaded lagoons of the Tondoon Botanic Gardens, on the western outskirts of the Queensland city of Gladstone, would undoubtedly be its chosen habitat, but the mythical […]
Carnarvon
A green oasis flanked on the east side by a yellow sand desert, and on the west by bluewater. On the Western Australian coast, Exmouth stands out as a bluewater game fishing destination, and fly fishing central for practitioners of the long wand seeking permit and bonefish. A few hundred kilometres south is the famous […]