Time to costume up and join ABBA tribute band Bjorn Again glamming up in the outback NSW town of Trundle If like many of the millions of fans around the world you are an ABBA tragic then the place for you to be this year is the NSW outback town of Trundle on Saturday 4 […]
Destinations
"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move"- Robert Louis Stevenson
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Albany’s Anzac Connection
The port city of Albany on Western Australia’s southern coast, 420km from Perth, has a strong sense of its own identity and, perhaps more keenly than any other Australian community, feels the weight of an ANZAC heritage that pre-dates the Gallipoli landings in 1915. The First Anzacs On 1 November 1914, thirty-six transport ships, escorted […]
