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Thursday, 9 Nov 2023 | Views [80]
OUR LODGING IN PORT AUGUSTA is a definite upgrade from the Waikerie garage—and it’s ten bucks cheaper! Costello Hotel has nine unique lovingly restored suites on the second floor with the original high ceilings, refinished wood floors and ... Read more >
Saturday, 4 Nov 2023 | Views [94]
MALLEEFOWL ARE PERHAPS THE MOST ICONIC BIRDS in Gluepot and second to the Black-eared Miner as the most endangered. Malleefowl are large birds, growing to nearly two feet and weighing five pounds. Although they are strong flyers they rely more on their ... Read more >
Friday, 3 Nov 2023 | Views [101]
WHY WAIKERIE? YOU ASK. According to the official town website, “Waikerie is a small, pleasant town sitting on the cliffs above the Murray River in the heart of South Australia's rich Riverland district."
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Thursday, 2 Nov 2023 | Photo Gallery
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Thursday, 2 Nov 2023 | Views [115]
WITH APOLOGIES TO GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS, we had to “ferry ‘cross the Murray”—there just isn’t a bridge at Waikerie. Instead, a vehicle-carrying cable ferry crosses to and fro twenty-four hours a day— hin und zuruck, ... Read more >
Wednesday, 1 Nov 2023 | Views [111]
WILPENA POUND IS THE CENTERPIECE of the Park. Although it looks like a volcanic crater it is really a natural amphitheater formed by two mountain ranges. (Don't ask how, we're not geologists!) The more intrepid can hike or backpack to the rim, 13.5 km ... Read more >
Tuesday, 31 Oct 2023 | Views [103]
THIS MORNING’S SUNRISE WAS SPECTACULAR, almost making the early start from Quorn to the Park seem like a good idea . About 100 KM of being alert for roos on the road later, we slowed to 20 mph while three hippity-hopped across the road ahead of ... Read more >
Monday, 30 Oct 2023 | Views [96]
HAWKER BILLS ITSELF AS THE “Hub of the Flinders Ranges” and Windana Cottages is the perfect base for exploring the area. It actually rained on our way from Leigh Creek, not enough to measure but I did have to use the wipers—low intermittent ... Read more >
Monday, 30 Oct 2023 | Photo Gallery
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Sunday, 29 Oct 2023 | Views [105]
LEIGH CREEK WAS ONCE A BOOMING purpose-built mining town. It had a modern shopping centre, a series of neat modern roads and small, attractive plots of land with standard modern houses. Miners and their families enjoyed a social life enhanced by the ... Read more >
Friday, 27 Oct 2023 | Views [91]
UNDAUNTED, WE HAVE SPENT THE LAST COUPLE of days checking out the more accessible birding sites. Creeping along on the “weenie-wheel” at sixty on a 110 KPH road hardly affects traffic—we generally see only two or three cars in a hundred ... Read more >
Tuesday, 24 Oct 2023 | Views [90]
LESS THAN A WEEK INTO OUR OUTBACK adventure and we’ve already driven 700 miles, suffered a windscreen chip and had a puncture. We are settled into the “Historic Marree Hotel” on the edge of the Outback. We’re not really “... Read more >
Saturday, 21 Oct 2023 | Views [99]
WE ARE BACK ON TERRA FIRMA again, arriving in Sydney Harbour on the 50 th anniversary of the Sydney Opera House. All the hassle getting Australian visas paid off as we sailed through immigration and customs without a hitch. We shared a taxi to ... Read more >
Saturday, 21 Oct 2023 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 3 Feb 2020 | Views [333]
THIRTY-KNOT WINDS WHIPPED SPUME from the waves — White Horses JRR Tolkein called them — and forced Noordam into a port-side list. Luckily, the swells were moderate so the rockin’ and rollin’ was minimal as we cruised ... Read more >
Friday, 31 Jan 2020 | Views [332]
AUSSIE KIDS ARE BACK IN SCHOOL FROM THEIR Xmas/Summer vacation. The sugarcane, ankle-high when we arrived, is now taller than I. And the occasional rain showers have become a daily deluge. We have been in Australia for ten weeks and ... Read more >
Monday, 27 Jan 2020 | Views [283]
I EXPECTED MISSION BEACH TO BE HOPPING on this Australia Day weekend, something like Seaside Heights, NJ on the July 4 th . The town isn’t just quiet, it’s dead. And we like it! You see, we are mostly passing time until ... Read more >
Sunday, 26 Jan 2020 | Views [369]
ON THIS AUSTRALIA DAY I WANTED TO SHARE a story we heard about how some Aussie towns got their names. A white “explorer” asked an Aborigine “What do you call this place?” The answer — in the local language, of course ... Read more >
Friday, 24 Jan 2020 | Views [290]
AUSTRALIA IS KNOWN FOR ITS STRANGE ANIMALS and none is more strange than the platypus. It appears to be an evolutionary afterthought, a hodgepodge made from spare parts — the bill of a duck, the tail of a beaver and the feet of an otter.... Read more >
Thursday, 23 Jan 2020 | Views [302]
CHAMBERS WILDLIFE RAINFOREST LODGE certainly lives up to its name. It is in the forest smack-dab inside Crater Lakes National Park on the Atherton Tablelands, and, yes, it rains. Our cabin is smaller than some of other places we’ve ... Read more >
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