Touring Australia’s north region in the wet season is a unique time to visit as Monica McInnes discovered during her roadtrip from reef to gulf following the Savannah Way. It’s one of life’s great conundrums – a camping roadtrip in the wet season. I mean – really? Do we want to do this? And, do […]
Salt Lake Serenity
An overnight stop-over with a difference can be had at Victoria’s Lake Tyrrell where you can just about watch the salt crystals grow. Lake Tyrrell is the largest salt lake in Victoria at over 20,000 hectare (more than 50,000 acres), about an hour south of Mildura and just north of the town of Sea Lake. […]
Inskip Peninsula
Enjoy wide open beaches and watch sunsets over quiet bay waters Inskip Point is well known as the gateway to some of the most amazing natural environments in the world – Fraser Island, the Great Sandy Strait and the Cooloola Recreation Area – but many thousands also know it as a fantastic holiday destination in […]
Ancient Mines And A Remarkable Cross Country Trade In Ochre
Ochre is the oldest form of paint used in Australia If the walls of these ancient quarries could talk, they would probably tell of superhuman feats of endurance by those who mined them with nothing more than their hands and primitive digging sticks to extract their treasures and then cross the country on foot, as […]