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Sat, 17 Dec 2005 | By rlgpeu | Views [1485]
[17 Dec 05 - 19 Dec 05] Brooms Head, too far from here, and from there, it's that kinda place where people just can't be bothered to go, and that's just the way i like it! Though it was early summer you could definitely feel the sun. So heading ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Thu, 12 Jun 2008 | By blue_skies | Views [1450]
After six weeks in Asia, there are a
number of things we find amazingly refreshing about Australia:
The
ability to express affection in public. Every once in a while we’ll engage
in a liplock in the middle of a busy street ... Read more >
Tags: ambassador van, asia, brisbane, world nomads
Fri, 13 Apr 2007 | By jakeandgenny | Views [1350]
I had a dream once: In my dream I was on a beautiful island. On this island there were white sand beaches, crystal clear blue waters, beautiful palm trees, 4x4 trucks and trails everywhere, and the purest pedigree of wild dogs in the world. This was ... Read more >
Tags: Adventures
Tue, 1 Jan 2008 | By ciaranandruth | Views [1089]
First day of the year and recovery is the order of the day. Luckily, the magnificent Hyde Park is no more than a few blocks away from us, and provides everything you'd need to do nothing. Grassy lawns. Bright sun. Utter quiet. Perfect. Captain Cook ... Read more >
Tags: Relaxation
Fri, 2 Sep 2016 | By craigmarch | Views [898]
After each spending months on the road for business, my brother Greg and I needed a break. Flights, hotels, rental cars and stuffy meetings and conferences had taken their toll, and we just wanted to "get away from it all" for a few days. A co-worker ... Read more >
Tags: australia, camping, campsite, holiday, new south wales, nsw, vacation
Mon, 20 Jul 2015 | By adventurers | Views [822]
When we woke up this morning, there was frost on our food containers and the olive oil was solidified in the glass bottle. We walked through thigh high grass on a track to reach Cobham Lake while drinking our morning coffees. The wide open space ... Read more >
Tags: back of beyond, cobham lake, jump up track, kangaroo, nsw, outback, rfds, sturt national park, tibooburra
Fri, 12 Mar 2010 | By sarahreinertsen | Views [665]
Exactly one year from departing Australia, I returned to Adelaide on an overnight flight from Singapore. It was a beautiful March day - as most March days in Adelaide are - and I was excited to bring my trip full circle, as it were. Despite my lack ... Read more >
Tags: australia, culture shock
Mon, 27 Apr 2009 | By josh_shona | Views [651] | Comments [1]
so we were sitting in san diego having problems decideing where to go and how to get there. Buses were good but not great and it was all getting to hard as we wanted to hire a car one way and that is expensive. so i looked up virgin america and we ... Read more >
Wed, 6 Mar 2013 | By sharonleigh | Views [605]
Hi there from downtown Anchorage. Been an interesting trip so far, lots going wrong but am not letting it get me down nor am I panicking . I figure its just best to go with the flow. I think losing the key to my locked luggage before I went to albury ... Read more >
Tags: airports, los angeles, phoenix, sydney
Tue, 9 Sep 2008 | By afischera | Views [556]
Saturday afternoon one of Jane's "mates" picked me up to go stay the night at her place in Chatswood (about five minutes from East Lindfield, similar to Bellevue). She has the CUTEST little apartment where she lives with her sweet little Jack ... Read more >
Mon, 21 Jan 2008 | By cattopp | Views [483]
I know that talking about the weather is just so very, well, British and that I'm here on my Australian passport and should start acting more like an Aussie rather than a Brit on holiday. But. Seriously. What is going on? It has been raining for the ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 | By rich | Views [399]
We start the day a bit earlier than we managed to yesterday and this gives us time to jump on a bus into Sydney’s CBD (city business district) before we've even had lunch! It's immediately obvious how different this city is from Melbourne - there's ... Read more >
Wed, 19 Dec 2007 | By spongey | Photo Gallery
The National Park
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Fri, 14 Mar 2014 | By frank_ly | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I only had one photo, I was making all by myself in my new house in Sydney.
However it's why I chose this recipe, because as social programming goes: I was making Arroz Caldo for someone who said they were feeling unwell.
They were actually just ...
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Sat, 22 Nov 2014 | By dallasjay | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I’ve always been enormously inquisitive about the natural world and its marvellous wonders. As a young child I always longed to work with wildlife yet in some twisted turn of fate I landed in a finance career.
A few years ago my father took me on ...
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Tags: 2014 Travel Photography Scholarship