In terms of national identity, Australia is a relatively young country. It wasn’t so long ago, in 1988, that we commemorated our official bicentenary, marking 200 years since Captain Arthur Phillip arrived in Sydney Cove with the First Fleet of convict ships to found the British colony of New South Wales. The Australian Bicentenary was […]
Lake Pedder – A Jewel In The Wilderness
Tasmania is famous for it’s wilderness regions and among the amazing forests is Lake Pedder When I was a young student at the Australian National University, back in the early 1970s, the Canberra campus atmosphere was heady with social consciousness, and student activism was seen and heard on a wide range of issues, like Australia’s […]
Mutawintji National Park
Experience the grandeur and wonders of outback NSW In the semi-arid backblocks of far western New South Wales, about half way between Broken Hill and White Cliffs, lies Mutawintji National Park – 690 sq. km of rugged, mulga-clad ranges dissected by sinuous gorges and creek beds lined with red gums. Beyond the ranges, wind-blown saltbush […]
Lost City and A Camp On One Million Acres
Visit the intriguing sandstone pillars and canyons of the Southern and Western Lost City On leaving Towns River, we continued along the Savannah Way through the Limmen National Park, an interesting conservation area but really remote and devoid of the usual attractions that grace many of the other parks in the Top End. It did […]
Boondooma Bound
Queensland’s South Burnett region has many great spots and we took a look at the Boondooma Dam Recreational Park and the historic Boondooma Homestead Queensland is a big state – the second largest at just under two million square kilometres – and you don’t get a true sense of the distances from A to B […]