If you’re heading to dingo territory on Queensland’s Fraser Island, this blog’s for you. Fraser Island is home to a few packs of these wild dogs and while you might want to make them your friend, especially the cute and curious pups, it is a huge no-no. Dingoes are actually more like wolves than dogs [...]
Australia
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Beware the scary dingo!
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Best job in the world blogger is stung!
Remember the hoopla that Queensland Tourism cleverly generated with their Best Job in the World campaign to lure a blogger to Hamilton Island, one of the Great Barrier Reef islands, as caretaker? The winner was Ben Southall, a 34 year old ginga from England in a marketing coup that they reckon yielded $115 million worth [...]
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Join the party cruise to Sydney!
If you’re on the sprightly side of 40 and have always toyed with the idea of a cruise but been scared off by the thought of portly passengers with bumbags strapped around their ample middles and having to wait in line behind mobility scooters – then this party cruise could be you. I’ve done 5 [...]
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The world’s best marathons in 2010
If you’re a sport billy and one of your lifelong ambitions is to puff your way through the world’s major marathons, then this blog’s for you. (Note, this blog’s not for me. I figure the reason God made cars is to get 42km down the road without having to sweat.) There are probably as many [...]
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Mmmm: making macadamia nut satay
Today’s blog is a wee departure from the norm. It comes with 2 recipes for using fresh macadamia nuts that I learned from Gaia Retreat’s head chef, Todd Cameron… I’d spent an afternoon at Olivia Newton-John’s luxurious retreat near Byron Bay in Australia’s NSW (and had a sublime spa treatment which you can read about [...]
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Aussie! Olivia Newton-John’s Gaia Retreat
Gaia Retreat and Spa is Olivia Newton-John’s place. 20 chalet style rooms from standard to executive suites and a major focus on wellness. And for the record, I have it on very good authority that all these rumours about her ex showing up? Rubbish. I flew into Ballina from Sydney, picked up a car at [...]
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Aussie! Bliss out in Byron Bay
I’d heard so much about Byron Bay – usually with much sighing, eyes glazing over and wistfulness – so when I was given the rough assignment of heading up there to write about its spas for Tourism Australia’s Explore supplement I rolled my sleeves up and took one for the team… It was actually part [...]
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Aussie! Parasailing, quad bikes & jet planes
In case you’ve been thinking my blogs have been a bit too girly of late, this one’s for the blokes… I got up nice and early at Peppers Anchorage in Port Stephens and went parasailing over Nelson bay with Port Stephens Parasailing. I haven’t done this before. Such a cool experience (especially as I had [...]
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Aussie! Koala cuddles at Oakvale Farm
After my 2 and a half hour zoom north from Sydney with my 4-door sedan on cruise control (and a well behaved GPS I might add – see previous post for GPS throttling!) I arrived at a teeny town called Salt Ash. Oakvale Farm is an open-plan zoo/farm where not all the animals are in [...]
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Aussie! The big drive from Sydney
I’ll “recalulate” you! I wanted to shout at the posh voice coming from the GPS stuck on my windscreen. My flight from Auckland to Sydney in the front seat of Qantas (yesss!) was a good one (and not the 7am red-eye either so I not too bleary for driving). Because of my up-front status I [...]
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