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Thu, 10 Jul 2008 | By blue_skies | Views [15645] | Comments [2]
“When I close my eyes, I see opals,” said Kelly, shaking his head. It seems he has a touch of opal fever. Lightning Ridge and the surrounding areas are famous for its abundance of opals, and in particular the black opal, which can basically ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, australia, grawin, lightning ridge, opal mining, world nomads
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 | By vantastic_tas | Views [1882] | Comments [1]
North, South and East Tasmania had already been graced with our presence. It was time for Dara and I to head down the winding roads of the West. First stop Cradle Mountain.
We got there in the evening just in time for feeding at the Devils ... Read more >
Tags: backpackers, campervan, nature, rainforest, tasmania, tasmania devils, travel, van-tastic adventures, wildlife, world nomads
Mon, 23 Jan 2012 | By homeless_harry | Views [1833] | Comments [3]
Having a rest day is never a bad thing, especially when it's time spent screwing your tormentor. That has to be the sauciest start to one of my blogs ever, but unfortunately I can't say that I got laid by Lady Luck. Sure, she's fucked me over quite ... Read more >
Tags: bicycling, family, on the road, repairs
Fri, 18 Sep 2009 | By silverlady | Views [1687]
This passage took Mick, Sam and I 50 hours. Once my daughter Lilly and Kevin had waved us off we got sailing. The first day we saw blue skies with a calm 15 knots from the west. This day was very enjoyable however it fooled us all as all hell broke ... Read more >
Tags: bass strait.
Mon, 24 May 2010 | By alexandpatrick | Views [1227] | Video
Roadtrip Australia: Van-Tastic Adventures Western Australia On their roadtrip through the Western Australia with Van-Tastic Adventures, Patrick and Alex explore the Dale's gorge. Follow the adventures at http://www.vantastic.worldnomads.com, ... Read more >
Tags: adventure, australia, backpacking, campervan, hiking, nature, oz, roadtrip, van-tastic adventures
Tue, 17 Apr 2012 | By vagabonds | Views [1183]
Tasmania is the adventure capital of Australia, a land of roaring rivers, temperate rain forests, sparkling lakes and hundreds of kilometers of hiking tracks, where rainfall is plentiful and it can snow at any time. Nearly one-third of Tassie is national ... Read more >
Sun, 5 Sep 2010 | By Ask-a-Nomad | Views [653]
So, we've made the call to develop an iPad app over an iPhone app first up. This is for a few reasons. I guess because we were curious. We've done iPhone apps already with our range of iPhone language guides and we are guessing the interface challenges ... Read more >
Tags: development, ipad, mobile, r&d
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 | By david_vanessa | Views [619]
Hola Amigos, A few good things to know: una via is not a street name; toilet paper goes in the bin and not the toilet; Diesel is US$1.037 per gallon everywhere we have been in ecudor; fuel tankers have inflamble printed on them.... Day 0 - Cuenca ... Read more >
Wed, 14 Jun 2006 | By maurajeanie | Views [506] | Comments [1]
I'm still in australia, but I went away to The Dreaming festival for 4 days of wet cold camping, aboriginal and world indigenous, traditional and contemporary performances, films, workshops, dance, etc. It was good though the weather was not, until the ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Tue, 23 Oct 2007 | By noei_trekker | Views [383]
After your intrepid explorer was busily entering the latest travels in the currently screening diary logs, of course the Internet place (the only one open at the time) suffered a catastrophic meltdown that it failed to fix in time for me to become really ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Thu, 18 Sep 2014 | By conikapernick | Views [217]
What an interesting time was to be had in Hong Kong, had the most amazing guilded tour with a very friendly Englishman called Jamie who tought me many interesting things about this great place. Peeking duck dinner canceled on account of the weather ... Read more >
Thu, 15 May 2014 | By | Views [124] | Scholarship Entry
How did I end up feeling this way? Jealous. Jealous of other people’s experiences when I was supposedly doing the same thing? Discovering the world in attempt to... discover myself? That’s right isn’t it? The only way to understand how I got myself ... Read more >
Tags: 2014 Travel Writing Scholarship - Euro Roadtrip
Thu, 13 Nov 2014 | By nathank | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I am a Lawyer in Sydney. Sounds exciting? Not so much! I have an unyielding desire and fire burning inside of me. A desire to reach out to the most remote corners of earth and help otherwise mute persons tell their stories. Why? We "civilised" seem to ...
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Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 | By teresa421 | Photo Gallery
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Mon, 7 Nov 2011 | By kangus | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I am a budding photographer. I have been studying photography for the last 3 or 4 years in the evenings and have been interested in travel photography for many years. I teach Kindergarten children during the day.The children inspire me and remind me every ...
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Tags: #2011wnphoto, travel photography scholarship 2011