Destination: Australia

MORE PORT STEPHENS!

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 | By vantasticnsw | Views [2193]

Hello hello.   This is Carly.   Kirsty mentioned in the last blog that Port Stephens is an ‘area’, but it was decided on our final night there that a more appropriate word is ‘destination,'    We had a fantastic time. The second half of our ... Read more >

Tags: bbq, kayaking, melaleuca, nsw, port stephens, roadtrip australia, sandboarding, surf lesson, surfing, van-tastic

Sunshiny Goodness

Sat, 12 Jan 2008 | By dazey311 | Views [1417]

Day 2 I woke up to my brother’s face peering through the locked van door. I still get surprised, after traveling on my own for so long, that I’m now with someone who has known me essentially my entire life. There’s a level of comfort that comes with ... Read more >

Tags: ambassador van, beaches & sunshine

Last Stop on the Australian Frontier

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 | By laurelmarshall | Views [1273]

Darwin is our stopping off point en route to Mumbai.   We passed through Alice Springs to get to Darwin, a miserable little spot in the middle of the continent with loads of flies and not much else at the airport.   Not sure how they ... Read more >

Tags: On the Road

22/07/2013 Birdwood Downs Station (Gibb River Road)

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 | By pauline | Views [1211] | Comments [1]

At breakfast I met 2 ladies (Freda from Port Hedland and Yvonne from Perth) about to head off to do the 660km unsealed Gibb River Road full of gorges, rivers, cattle stations and bush camping, and the Bungle Bungles, with tents and a Subaru ... Read more >

Tags: gibb river road, kimberley, western australia

Eat, Pray, Eat!- Part 1: Hong Kong

Fri, 3 Aug 2012 | By yellowducks | Views [936]

One of the best birthday presents I’ve ever received, has to be my best friends present this year: A trip to Hong Kong and China! It all seemed so unreal, it wasn’t until we landed in Hong Kong that it actually hit me: I was in a new ... Read more >

Tags: bigbuddha, disneyland, hongkong, itsasmallworld, laser-lightshow, thepeaktram

Down Under - Oz

Mon, 11 May 2009 | By horwood | Views [895] | Comments [2]

Hi Everyone Firstly thanks to everyone who is actually reading this, it's great when we can see that poeple are viewing our journal.  I know the entries are a bit sporadic but we do try!  Anyway on with the show! We've been in Australia now for about ... Read more >

Tasmania

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 | By james74 | Views [849] | Comments [1]

Just spent the past week in fortunately sunny Tasmania. I started off in Hobart the capital of the island which is ok but I think people now get the message I'm not overly bothered by cities anymore and Hobart was nothing special. So I headed up the ... Read more >

Escape to an Island

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 | By misch | Views [710] | Comments [1]

I arrived in Melbourne, totally jetlagged at 5 AM on Good Friday morning and caught a taxi to the St Kilda suburb, where our hosts, John & Yas, live. Mike had arrived in Melbourne two days earlier and opened the door with a hangover, as he'd been ... Read more >

Lamington National Park

Sat, 7 Dec 2019 | By graynomadsusa | Views [620]

WYNDOVER MOUNTAIN RETREAT IS A NEW LISTING on booking.com.  We are their first guests — but certainly won’t be the last!  Located in Beechmont Queensland, Wyndover is thirteen kilometers from Lamington National Park as the currawong ... Read more >

Seek Experiences - Fun getting wrecked

Mon, 4 Nov 2013 | By kazhof | Views [498] | Video | Scholarship Entry

This subject was inspired by my love of scuba diving and an inquisitive mind. I had heard a lot of mixed stories about wreck diving so I wanted to try it myself. My experience to date has been purely amateur. I love photography and I have been compiling ... Read more >

Tags: Travel Film Scholarships 2013

Update, illness, etc

Tue, 8 Apr 2008 | By marge | Views [340] | Comments [1]

So this is the unit chair's response to me: Hi Mary, Can we chat in person? When are you free? I am around today and tomorrow. If you have a mobile I can call you and we can set sopmething up. Chris aaaaaaaaaanyone else feel like I met ... Read more >

The Ghosts of Gwalia

Thu, 13 Aug 2015 | By katefergusonmedia | Views [296] | Video | Scholarship Entry

I am a journalist and video producer with fifteen years’ professional experience in television and digital media. For the majority of that time, I have worked as a one-person television bureau, creating stories from idea to broadcast on a daily basis ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Film Scholarship to Colombia

Crocodylus Cove

Wed, 27 May 2015 | By | Views [165] | Scholarship Entry

He stared benignly at me unblinking and unmoved, despite my being just centimetres away from his body. The words of that old Peter Pan song played over in my mind: “Never smile at a crocodile.” As his belly hovered above my head, the close up view I got ... Read more >

Tags: 2015 Writing Scholarship

Photos: Featherdale Wildlife Park

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 | By hasitha_tudugalle | Flickr Photo Gallery

Photos: The Beginning

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 | By deanm | Photo Gallery