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Tue, 19 May 2015 | By ejfraser | Views [196] | Scholarship Entry
Less than twenty minutes after arriving in the city that plays gate-keeper to the Great Barrier Reef, you will feel like slipping into a pair of comfy shoes and soaking up enough salted fresh air to survive Armageddon. DO NOT be lured into relaxation ... Read more >
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Tue, 19 May 2015 | By geemc | Views [367] | Scholarship Entry
There isn’t much at Santa Teresa. On first glance, it is exactly like any other place in the Australian outback – just another patch of red sand in the vast expanse of nothingness, smack bang in the middle of the continent. But Santa Teresa, or Ltyentye ... Read more >
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Tue, 19 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [260]
Headed off for a walk at 5.45am and was walking down by the River when I remembered I was to ring mum again at 6am. I quickly turned around and it was 6.15 when I called her. Chatted for 20 min and then went out again to the local market. On the way ... Read more >
Mon, 18 May 2015 | By aubreyreynolds | Views [123] | Scholarship Entry
I believe that travelling is about moments. The unique moments to you and who you shared them with. Even the most remote places have been travelled; documented; seen. But not by you. I recently backpacked across Australia for the best part of a year and ... Read more >
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Mon, 18 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [338]
I went walking into town along the River and went across to Cam Nam Island to have a look at Dong’s house and then I wondered the back streets of HoiAn looking for the Banh Xi Queen. Breakfast menu had a few more items this morning and Kevin ordered ... Read more >
Mon, 18 May 2015 | By annamaria | Views [199] | Scholarship Entry
Great Barrier Reef, Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Great Ocean Road - I had seen it all and I still felt I did not experience the “true” Australia. My mind was full of images of red roads, wild animals and wilderness. I wanted to feel the freedom of being at ... Read more >
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Mon, 18 May 2015 | By emptynester | Views [491] | Scholarship Entry
Gusts of freezing wind whirling around tombstones and biting into flesh might seem a strange choice for a travel tale. Yet when we overshot the tourist viewpoint for the limestone stacks of the iconic Twelve Apostles, we stumbled upon a place of haunting ... Read more >
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Sun, 17 May 2015 | By nomadicnights | Photo Gallery
Moonlit dusk on Clifton Beach, North Queensland Australia
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Sun, 17 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [309]
Didn't go walking this morning as starting to feel fatigued. After breakfast went to helmet shop to take a photo of the helmet that Kevin liked. Sent it to Vang who is going to go and buy it for us at local price. On way to An Bang Beach I passed through ... Read more >
Sun, 17 May 2015 | By goannasnake | Photo Gallery
Conquering my fear of heights
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Sun, 17 May 2015 | By goannasnake | Views [609]
Climb the Harbour Bridge, of course. At least, that’s what I did.
The weather was absolutely awful – cold and very wet. What would you expect in the middle of winter? Well, it could have been fine, but it wasn’t. Everyone else thought ... Read more >
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Sun, 17 May 2015 | By piccolo | Views [169] | Scholarship Entry
Having spent most our allotted travel money on a rudimentary collection of parts masquerading as a street-legal vehicle from a chap in a dusty north Queensland town where the only other inhabitant seemed to be a one-legged chicken working at the post ... Read more >
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Sat, 16 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [353]
Headed down toward the River this morning and as I came around the corner I met a guy Gary Hagan from Sydney Australia also walking. I walked along with him and chatted. He is now living in HoiAn and has just signed a 6 month lease on a house out toward ... Read more >
Fri, 15 May 2015 | By beharding | Views [284] | Scholarship Entry
I was once told, if you trail your left hand along the wall when inside a maze you will always find your way out. I was hoping this theory applied to the world beyond mazes as I drove along a crudely-slapped-together, dusty road in a borrowed car of ... Read more >
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Fri, 15 May 2015 | By wendyandkevin | Views [344]
Walked to Cho Tan An Market and bought a mango and some laundry detergent. Kevin went along the river and across to Cam Nam Island to look at where Dong has built his house. Kevin says the work on the second floor is progressing. After breakfast, I tried ... Read more >
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