On The Road

The Big Lap Part 5 – Chasing The Sun

We discover magnificent places as you cross the Nullarbor Plain While Tikay was in dry dock back at Port Augusta, we spent a couple of days enjoying the natural splendour of the Mount Remarkable National Park and the rustic charms of Wilmington and Melrose on the threshold of the Southern Flinders Ranges. With repairs effected,… Continue Reading

Inside A Remote Indigenous Island Community

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… Continue Reading

All That Glitters – Victoria’s Central Goldfields

During the gold rush in the 1800’s small Victorian towns boomed The goldfields region of north-central Victoria extends from Buninyong in the south, to Inglewood and Wedderburn in the north, west to Stawell and east to Kilmore and Heathcote.  It encompasses the major cities of Ballarat, Bendigo and Castlemaine, smaller centres like Maldon, Daylesford, Creswick… Continue Reading